
This month's series has been all about giving you tips and resources for having the best 2025 possible. In this video, I want to share with you how to create habits to get the results you're looking for. We have to look at results as the end point. Habits of the things that'll get us there. Now, this book right here, it's called Atomic Habits by James Clear. I suggest everyone pick up a copy. It's phenomenal. And he talks in there about how habits or automated behaviors in response to a stimulus or cue. And so what we need to do is set up those cues to help us take the actions that will get us the results we're looking for. I want to give you three ways to do this. Ultimately, this is about building these things into our routine.
Tip number one: put it in your schedule, because things that go in a schedule, get done.
Tip number two: set a reminder with that. Have a reminder go off 10, 15, 20 minutes before you have to do it, or perhaps even at that same time. But set a reminder on that phone so that it cues you into doing the action that you said you were going to take.
Tip number three: stack your habit with another habit you're already doing. For an example, we teach something in this office called the chin tuck exercise that helps with head posture, and we recommend people do that twice a day. Well, something else people typically also do twice a day is brush their teeth. So I recommend stack this chin tuck exercise with brushing your teeth. That's something called habit stacking.
-Be Well
Dr. Tony