Habits shape your life far more than you probably realize. Habits are very strong. In fact, our brains cling to them at the exclusion of all else - including common sense.

More than 40 percent of the actions you perform each day aren’t actual decisions, but habits.

Not only are habits important. They grow stronger and stronger over time and become more and more automatic. So make sure you have the right ones!

Habits are so powerful because they create neurological cravings: A certain behavior is rewarded by the release of “pleasure” chemicals in the brain. 

Habits works through the habit loop

1. Cue / trigger: A location, a time of day, certain people, an emotional state,

2. Routine: Watching TV, smoking a cigarette, eating chocolate, biting your nails

3. Reward: The pleasure chemicals released in the brain because of the routine.

Because of the reward the habit loop is reinforced.