Habit Stacking To Displace Bad Habit

Hi friends,

I noticed that it is significantly harder for me to get rid of bad habits than forming a new one. A bad habit feels so ingrained in my life that I sometimes don't even notice that I'm doing it. 

So I Googled for some solution on this and I found one that I highly resonate with. It's called habit stacking.

Based on the notion that creating a habit is easier than breaking a bad one, we should approach breaking bad habits by forming a better habit to displace it. That's the frame of mind that we should go about. And the way forward to this is to create a new habit that anchors onto an already good habit that you have. 

So I have a very bad habit of not cooling down after my jog. I tend to skip it because I just don't like stretching (I'm bad at it). The way for me to combat this is to tell myself to do at least 2 push-ups after a run. By doing so, I will naturally transition into any stretching form while I'm already on the ground and I tend to just follow through with the stretching before ending my routine. So far it has worked because I like doing push-ups. I also don't have any excuse for not being able to commit to at least doing 2 push-ups!

That's the habit stacking I've made thus far. How does your habit stacking looks like? 

Hope you all get some benefits from habit stacking! Cheers.