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# Tip of the Week: Building Better Habits through Habit Stacking
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Monday, 17 July 2023
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Productivity is always a primary focus for a business today, which makes any effort to improve it a welcome one. We wanted to take a moment and introduce you to a simple concept to make it easier to develop productive habits: something called habit stacking.
## What is Habit Stacking, Anyways?
Think about the little things that you do while at work, each and every day, all the parts of your routine that have become automatic. You don’t really have to think about them, do you? At this point, it’s just what you do. You probably have a few things like this in your personal life, too… things and processes that feel so natural at this point that *not* doing them feels wrong.
Habit stacking is simply the conscious act of purposefully adding a new habit into your existing pattern of behavior. Let’s go through how you can do so for yourself:
### Step 1: Identify What You *Want* to Do
There are plenty of tasks that are well-suited for habit stacking. Generally speaking, these tasks are ones that take relatively little effort to do, but are usually put off in favor of your other responsibilities. Alternatively, these could be new activities that you want to incorporate into your daily process and you just want to be intentional about it. Whatever the case may be, select one and proceed.
### Step 2: Figure Out What You *Already* Do
With your intended habit in mind, review your current habits and routines to identify any opportunities you have to organically introduce your new behavior. It’s important that they match up somewhat well, as a mismatched set of habits won’t be effective. For instance, if you want to start catching up on industry news, it makes sense to start a habit of reading a newsletter over breakfast… not so much to start reading the newsletter during your morning internal huddle. Do your best to pair up cohesive sets of habits whenever you try adding a new one.
### Step 3: Actively Work to Assimilate the Two
When all is said and done, the only way to really create a habit is to do the same thing over and over again until it becomes natural. While the existing habit will help, it’s important that you keep yourself accountable to your endeavor. Write your intentions down—*I will read the blog Apex Technology puts out at breakfast*—and do whatever it takes to make sure you do it, setting a reminder, checking back on your written intention, and repeating until the habit is formed.
**Wash, rinse, and repeat, and you should have a new habit before very long.**
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Tim Campbell is the President of Apex Technology which he founded in 1998. In 2009, Apex launched its Managed IT Services division. Since its inception, Apex has become the premier Managed IT Services Companies in the Charlotte metro area specializing in Managed IT, Security, Data Backup & Cloud Computing Solutions.
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