Monday, January 30, 2012

Three Tiny Habits - or Five

I’ve run into multiple Podcasts and blogs that talk about a program called 3 Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg and decided to check it out. It’s very simple actually. Saturday or Sunday, you pick three tiny habits you want to adopt for a week. Monday through Friday you do your tiny habit.

I haven’t signed up for the program, but I decided to give it a try. I couldn’t decide on just three habits though, but I did pick five habits I think are most important to what I want to accomplish in my life.

1. Quiet time after breakast every day.
2. Drink pop with lunch (trying to cut back on pop)
3. Track what I eat for lunch
4. Brush my teeth right after my daughter goes to bed.
5. Work on a side project 5 minutes a day. This can be programming, writing, or blogging.

I’m using a program called Sciral Consistency to track my habits. You could use paper & pencil, a spreadsheet or web application called Joe's Goals. I’m sure there are millions of other options, but those are the top ones I know of.

2 comments:

Danielle said...

Thanks for sharing Kenny. I see QT made the list..whoo hoo! Maybe you should share some of the links with us at Small Group on Friday??

bjfogg said...

Kenny,

Thanks for writing about 3 Tiny Habits.

I hope you take the course officially because there are ways you can make your tiny habits better.

Specifically, the way your formulate the habit follows this pattern: After I [existing habit], I will [new tiny behavior].

And there are other things that will benefit you.

I hope to see you in a future session!