Exercise better habits aligned with those 10 virtues every day using these best practices:​

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• Use a Habit Tracker to document and track your better habits every day.

• Document habits with a SMART approach:

  • Specific (what, when, where, and/or how you are doing something)

  • Measurable (criteria to know you've done something)

  • Achievable (realistic and attainable even if stretching your abilities)

  • Relevant (aligns with the virtue in which you want to grow)

  • Time-bound (something you can do every day)

• Start exercising one better habit aligned with one of the 10 virtues.

• Exercise a simple version of this habit that takes less than 2 minutes to do.

• After consistently exercising the better habit for at least one month, continue to grow in virtue by:

  • ​Improving the existing habit to go beyond the simpler 2-minute version, and...

  • Exercising a better habit for another virtue.

• Stack your better habits by exercising a new habit before, during, or after an existing habit.

• Exercise better habits with others who are exercising better habits too.

• ​Reward yourself when you complete your better habits. (eg. Checking them off on your Habit Tracker is rewarding.)​

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To learn more best practices for exercising better habits, read Atomic Habits as a comprehensive guide on how to change your habits.