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Mindset Tricks

The document discusses various mental tricks individuals use to maintain good habits and quit bad ones. Strategies include progressively delaying cheat days, gradually increasing time away from unhealthy foods, using mantras to shift thinking, and visualizing the sugar content in sodas. These techniques help individuals manage cravings and reinforce positive behavior changes.

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Mindset Tricks

The document discusses various mental tricks individuals use to maintain good habits and quit bad ones. Strategies include progressively delaying cheat days, gradually increasing time away from unhealthy foods, using mantras to shift thinking, and visualizing the sugar content in sodas. These techniques help individuals manage cravings and reinforce positive behavior changes.

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Mindset Tricks

Sometimes I like to employ clever little mental tricks to stick

with a good habit.

One reader named Caelan wrote, “I quit smoking by assigning

my cheat days progressively farther in the future. I never quit

“for good,” I only quit until my next cheat day. This helped with

cravings, because the choice wasn’t between “right now” or

“never,” it was “right now” or “later.”

Ken applied a similar strategy to his habit of eating fast food. “I

started small when I quit bad habits like eating McDonalds all

the time and drinking soda. I told myself I’d take a week off,

then said two weeks. That continued. This month, I made it four

years without McDonalds and 15 months without soda.”

Another person used the Pointing-and-Calling strategy I

discussed in Chapter 4. They wrote, “I quit smoking by saying a

mantra out loud every time I wanted a cigarette (“your brain


tricks you”) which I think changed my thinking from the

subconscious part of my brain to the logical part.”

Qiana used a little math and a clever visual trick. “I stopped

drinking soda,” she wrote. “I added up all the sodas I drank for

the week and counted how many tablespoons of sugar were in

those soda cans and bottles. I began to scoop the amount of

sugar into an enormous bowl The visual did it for me. I had to

break that habit.”

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