To build an effective new habit, you need five essential components: a reason, a trigger, a micro-habit, effective practice, and a plan.
Taken from the book “The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever” by Michael Bungay Stanier
Think less about what your habit can do for you, and more about how this new habit will help a person or people you care about.
Plan How to Get Back on Track. Resilient systems build in fail-safes so that when something breaks down, the next step to recover is obvious. Make your habit a resilient system.
Charles Duhigg says that there are just five types of triggers: location, time, emotional state, other people, and the immediately preceding action.
Define the new behavior, one that will take sixty seconds or less to do.