Discipline Expert: The Habit That Will Make Or Break Your Entire 2026!

You've written one of the best-selling books in history about habits.

Because people always need more practical help with implementing their habits, and I have different strategies and different tools to get habits to stick, including one principle that is probably the single most important for building habits, but so much of it is about mastering the art of getting started.

Let's get started then.

James Clear is one of the world's leading habit experts. He's educating millions to build lasting habits, master goal-setting, and ultimately redesign their lives. There are four different stages that every habit goes through: cue, craving, response, and reward. So first, we wanna make it obvious. Easier it is to see or get your attention, the more likely you are to act on it. The second is about the craving, and it's all about making it attractive. And the more engaging or exciting it is, the more likely you are to stick with it. The third is to make it easy. The easier a habit is to perform, the more likely it is to happen. And then the fourth and final one is to make it satisfying, and that's about increasing the odds that you do it next time. And there's some tools that we can go through. But one of the big takeaways from Atomic Habits is it's easier to build a new habit if you stack it on top of the habit you're already doing. So let's say that your current habit is you make a cup of coffee, and the new habit that you want to build is you wanna start meditating. So then you could say, "All right. After I make my morning cup of coffee, I will meditate for 60 seconds." And you can do it for anything. There's also a framework that I call HATS, haircuts, and tattoos, the secret to winning, habit shaping, and real lesson of getting one percent better every day, and we can talk about all of them.

But is there any frameworks, any tactics, if you're trying to break a habit?

If you want to break a bad habit, there's some things that you can do.

James, your book has shaped tens and tens and tens of millions of lives. Is there anything you look back on that you regret?

If I could add something, I would add this, because if you really wanna make progress again and again, if you wanna get to the top and stay at the top, you need to be able to...

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