Puddicombe: Anchoring meditation to daily habits increases consistency
Andy Puddicombe · How I Built Resilience: Live with Alli Webb and Andy Puddicombe & Rich Pierson · May 30, 2020 · at 24:44
Headspace co-founder Andy Puddicombe shares behavioral strategies for establishing a consistent daily meditation practice.
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“Second one is tied to something that you already do. So most people just either forget about it or something else takes priority. So tie it to something like if you have a shower every morning, tie it to that. So it's shower and meditation or it's coffee and meditation. What's that one thing that you do every single day, even at a weekend, even when you're on holiday, once that's kind of there, then you're more likely to sort of remember doing it.”
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