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5 Tips to Finding the Best Daily Habits for You

Lessons I learned adding 30 new habits and keeping them for a month

Mary DeVries
5 min readJun 1, 2021
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

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Are you looking to add some new positive habits to your life? You already recognize habits as a powerful force for positive change but you aren’t sure where exactly to start. What habits will give you the most benefit for the least effort?

I just finished a two-month challenge of daily habit formation. In the first month, I started a new habit every day. In the second month, I continued each habit until it reached the 30-day mark then evaluated whether I wanted to keep it or ditch it.

In total, I started 30 habits, practiced each one for at least 30 days, and decided to keep doing 20 out of the 30 habits.

What habits will work for you is a highly personalized question. However, there are some universal principles I found. If you are looking to add some positive habits into your own life here are some tips based on my experience.

Choose habits that will:

Give you some bang for your buck

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Mary DeVries
Mary DeVries

Written by Mary DeVries

I delight, despair and write about a life lived around the world. Fueled by Yorkshire Gold tea.

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