I have many, many attempts to change my habits. I try to make a habit of wake up early, exercise regularly and even eating healthy food. There’s a lot of failure and many self loathing, but on every failure there’s always a lesson to learned. Zenhabit collect 13 things you should avoid when you try to change your habit, including my favorite :

Changing focus too soon. Often we’ll start a habit change, and within a week or two change our focus to something else. Well, the habit probably isn’t firmly ingrained by then, and so we’ve wasted all that time trying to form a new habit and then abandoning it before it’s on autopilot. Instead, stick to this habit for at least 30 days, and be consistent as possible.

In order to become a habit, someone must do at least 21 30 days of those repetitive tasks. If not, there’s a big chances that you will become the old you again. If you know what to avoid, the chances of failing hopefully become smaller.

13 Things to Avoid [via Zenhabit]