As soon as you see results it’s easy to keep going

Smoking usually serves a purpose that needs to be filled with something else enjoyable, yes. Earlier I mentioned having no zero days and frontloading your discomfort. So yeah. Sounds like we on the same page just in a different dialect lmao.

Actually creating a habit depends on what type of habit it is. According to this study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejsp.674
the median time to reach 95% of asymptote is 66 days, whatever that should mean? So according to geometrics an asymptote of a curve is when the distance of a line to the curve is approaching zero.

So, my tip is very different from above. Pick clear goals you want to achieve and break them down to as small steps as possible and then work yourself up the ladder and reward yourself for every step you achieve. good luck man we all in this

love this thank you

in order to break bad habits laziness you have to develop good habits productiveness .

make a list of what you want to do productive and set 30 min increments and do it daily, preferably early morning/afternoon.

after 2 weeks or a month you can increase the time increments to 1hr etc. don't focus too much on what you want to do , just start doing it. You also have to create your own workspace where you can cut out distractions and focus.

dont bother. youl just waste time reading garbage books all day

You don’t want it

Ouch. Sounds like you're having a tough time loliuvyou. That sucks. I've been there, so I kinda know what you're talking about. I've been in the ever circling vortex of self doubt, frustration, and loathing. It's no bueno. I know. If you don't mind lemme tell you a couple things. You can read em if you want, read em again later if you feel like it. But honestly man, if I spend all this time typing this out to you and you don't let it be a little tinder for your fire, well, you're just letting us both down. And you don't HAVE to do that. You don't HAVE to do anything. But you get to choose.

(Who am I? My name’s Ryan and I live in Canada. Just moved to a new city for a dream job that I got because of the rules below. I owe a lot of my success to people much cooler, kinder, more loving and greater than me. When I get the chance to maybe let a little bit of help out, it’s a way of thanking them. )

Rule numero uno - There are no more zero days. What's a zero day? A zero day is when you don't do a single f***ing thing towards whatever dream or goal or want or whatever that you got going on. No more zeros. I'm not saying you gotta bust an essay out everyday, that's not the point. The point I'm trying to make is that you have to make yourself, promise yourself, that the new SYSTEM you live in is a NON-ZERO system. Didnt' do anything all f***ing day and it's 11:58 PM? Write one sentence. One pushup. Read one page of that chapter. One. Because one is non zero. You feel me? When you're in the super vortex of being bummed your pattern of behaviour is keeping the vortex goin, that's what you're used to. Turning into productivity ultimate master of the universe doesn't happen from the vortex. It happens from a massive string of CONSISTENT NON ZEROS. That's rule number one. Do not forget.

La deuxieme regle - yeah i learnt french. its a canadian thing. please excuse the lack of accent graves, but lemme get into rule number 2. BE GRATEFUL TO THE 3 YOU'S. Uh what? 3 me's? That sounds like mumbo jumbo bullshit. News flash, there are three you's homeslice. There's the past you, the present you, and the future you. If you wanna love someone and have someone love you back, you gotta learn to love yourself, and the 3 you's are the key. Be GRATEFUL to the past you for the positive things you've done. And do favours for the future you like you would for your best bro. Feeling like s*** today? Stop a second, think of a good decision you made yesterday. Salad and tuna instead of Big Mac? THANK YOU YOUNGER ME. Was yesterday a nonzero day because you wrote 200 words (hey, that's all you could muster)? THANK YOU YOUNGER ME. Saved up some coin over time to buy that sweet thing you wanted? THANK YOU. Second part of the 3 me's is you gotta do your future self a favour, just like you would for your best f***ing friend (no best friend? you do now. You got 2. It's future and past you). Tired as hell and can't get off reddit/videogames/interwebs? f*** you present self, this one's for future me, i'm gonna rock out p90x Ab Ripper X for 17 minutes. I'm doing this one for future me. Alarm clock goes off and bed is too comfy? f*** you present self, this one's for my best friend, the future me. I'm up and going for a 5 km run (or 25 meter run, it's gotta be non zero). MAKE SURE YOU THANK YOUR OLD SELF for rocking out at the end of every.single.thing. that makes your life better. The cycle of doing something for someone else (future you) and thanking someone for the good in your life (past you) is key to building gratitude and productivity. Do not doubt me. Over time you should spread the gratitude to others who help you on your path.

Rule number 3- don't worry i'm gonna too long didnt' read this bad boy at the bottom (get a pencil and piece of paper to write it down. seriously. you physically need to scratch marks on paper) FORGIVE YOURSELF. I mean it. Maybe you got all the know-how, money, ability, strength and talent to do whatever is you wanna do. But lets say you still didn't do it. Now you're giving yourself s*** for not doing what you need to, to be who you want to. Heads up champion, being dissapointed in yourself causes you to be less productive. Tried your best to have a nonzero day yesterday and it failed? so what. I forgive you previous self. I forgive you. But today? Today is a nonzero masterpiece to the best of my ability for future self. This one's for you future homes. Forgiveness man, use it. I forgive you. Say it out loud.

Last rule. Rule number 4, is the easiest and its three words. exercise and books. that's it. Pretty standard advice but when you exercise daily you actually get smarter. when you exercise you get high from endorphins (thanks body). when you exercise you clear your mind. when you exercise you are doing your future self a huge favour. Exercise is a leg on a three legged stool. Feel me? As for books, almost every f***ing thing we've all ever thought of, or felt, or gone through, or wanted, or wanted to know how to do, or whatever, has been figured out by someone else. Get some books max. Post to reddit about not caring about yourself? Good first step! (nonzero day, thanks younger me for typing it out) You know what else you could do? Read 7 habits of highly successful people. Read "emotional intelligence". Read "From good to great". Read “thinking fast and slow”. Read books that will help you understand. Read the bodyweight fitness reddit and incorporate it into your workouts. (how's them pullups coming?) Reading is the f***ing warp whistle from Super Mario 3. It gets you to the next level that much faster. That’s about it man. There’s so much more when it comes to how to turn nonzero days into hugely nonzero days, but that’s not your mission right now. Your mission is nonzero and forgiveness and favours. You got 36 essays due in 24 minutes and its impossible to pull off? Your past self let you down big time, but hey… I forgive you. Do as much as you can in those 24 minutes and then move on.

ngl a lot of my friends who were going nowhere in life got their s*** together crazy fast once they had their first kid lol

not saying you should go knock a girl up but sometimes I be jokingly thinking to myself “damn I would prolly be in a better place right now if I had a kid”

obvs not gonna work if you a deadbeat type tho

Not true. Was gonna tell op to look for books about learning good habits but @plants already got that covered.

It’s only useless if you don’t apply what you read and practice daily

The technology has engineered you to think short term, to value pleasure over purity. Detach for a bit

there's a brand of philosophy called anti-natalism

that posits that it is good to be self-destructive, but pointless.

ultimately, anti-natalists wish they never existed, and even acts of self-destruction are frowned upon.

One small step at a time, it’s not because you don’t want it, it’s because you want it so bad you’re scared of failing and never getting the thing you want so bad. Go get it, one step at a time.

Start with one thing. Tell us about it and we will hold u accountable

Ppl really just robots repeating Nike slogan in here as if knowledge doesn't help you at all. Like okay sure you can say just do it all you want but goddamn let the man read a book at the same time jesus

One thing that really helped me was to make small goals I wanted to reach as opposed to large ones. Like study 30 mins today. Do that for like 4 weeks . Then study for an hr and increase.

Its less daunting and gives a sense of accomplishment and more confidence that you can reach where you want

Even outside of the knowledge picked up, the actual activity of being motivated enough to read a book is beneficial. But it is hard. The internet has programmed so many people to be lazy readers. We treat reading as a passive activity whilst we are swapping between tabs looking at memes, checking social media, watching vids etc.

If you can reprogram yourself to be motivated to read a book without external distractions, you will find more success in life.