Building a habit begins with making a choice. You have to make that choice every single day, and sometimes multiple times per day. Eventually, you won’t even have to think about it because it will just come naturally. What is a choice that comes naturally? A habit!

The habit stacking strategy moves beyond this. Once you’ve built one habit, you add a new behavior on top of that to build another. 

I’ll use myself as an example. I wanted to start drinking more water every day, so I built a habit of drinking a full glass as soon as I woke up. I’ll be honest, it was a pretty easy habit to build. I highly recommend trying it! Something I’ve always struggled with though is remembering to take my multivitamin. For whatever reason, I could never be consistent with it. That is until I came across habit stacking.

It occurred to me that I already drink a full glass of water in the morning, so why not stack the habit of taking my multivitamin at the same time? Every morning, I grab my vitamins before I fill my glass. Here I am a few months later, and I haven’t missed a day yet! It works, it really does!