I always think of November and December as the resolutions “pre-season.” If you have big goals in the new year, it can be helpful to spend some time before January 1st thinking of how you might approach them, and how you can make them doable in your life.
In general, I find that the more effortless a habit feels, the easier it is to stick with. That might sound obvious. It is! And yet many of us operate under the delusion that we will become entirely different people in the new year. We’ll have more open schedules and more energy and more discipline. So we set time-consuming and ambitious goals that are highly likely to fail.
A better option? Find tweaks that, over time, will still add up to good results.
Here are 19 of my favorite (nearly) effortless good habits.
