Everybody wants to change things about their life, and almost everybody has a hard time making it stick.
Why?
Part of it is that you may want to change something about your life, but it’s still the way that it is for a reason. Changing that trajectory can sometimes be harder than people think. Furthermore, the longer you repeat a pattern, the more likely it is to become a habit, which makes it harder to do something different. If it’s a good habit? That’s great. If it’s a bad habit? Not so great.
So, how do you get over this and actually change things?
Well, the traditional answer is to just make a decision, decide how things are going to be, and use your willpower to make it happen! This absolutely can work, but for most of us, willpower is a limited resource. When we spend day after day grinding it out, on the verge of failing, oftentimes we give in and go back to the easier, more natural “wrong” way of doing things.
If you’ve ever tried to change something in your life and kept trying a…
