The 7 Healthiest Habits to Add to Your Routine

(And None of Them is Running)

Here are several habits that will help you lead a healthy life. I’ve been cultivating most of them for the last four and a half years and I was sick only twice in that period. They work.

1. Exercise Every Day.

In cultivating habits, consistency is much more important than results.

If you exercise 5–6 days a week, this naturally means 1–2 days without exercise. However, this is confusing for your mind — is exercise a habit or not? It’s also confusing for your identity- am I the person who exercises or not?

It hampers your momentum. It increases your “willpower price” every time you come back to your exercises after even a 1-day hiatus.

It’s much simpler to exercise every day and erase all this nonsense. If necessary, make just a token effort, exercise for 30 seconds, do a few pushups or whatever.
Whether you do one pushup or 50 of them, you must go exactly through the same deciding process and motions.

Even though a token exercise such as I suggest doing as a ‘placeholder’ to ensure continuity, will provide almost no physical benefits, it will provide your mind with reinforcement that exercise is something you habitually do.