Emily McDonald

I'm like, try it after you exercise.

It's way easier.

And then they're like, whoa, it was a whole different world.

Yeah.

And so, yeah, I find it way easier to do that.

And so it just happens to me that that's the way that I stacked my habits as well.

And now it's to the point that when I exercise in the morning, if I don't meditate after, it feels wrong.

Like it feels like something's missing here.

So stacking your habits, kind of making them super easy, make them smack you in the face, and then also reward yourself, right?

So for the bad habit, I literally punished myself by sitting with how disgusting I felt.

But for the good habits, like how can you reward yourself for doing those things?

How can you, like I always say, your dog doesn't learn to sit for free.

You got to give him a treat.

So if you want your brain to learn to do new behaviors, give yourself a treat.

And treats boost dopamine.

Dopamine drives neuroplasticity.

It drives learning.

We learn better when we are happy and enjoy and rewarding ourselves.

So rewarding yourself for doing the things that you say that you're going to do, that you want to do for doing the habit, that's a great way to kind of drive habit formation as well.

Yeah, there's actually that reminded me of the other thing that you had asked, which you had mentioned.