The Best Time to Start a New Habit
If you want to start a new habit, there a proven system that you can follow that makes your chances of success much higher.
First, you have to choose what habit you want to develop. Then you have to choose when you'll do that habit each and every day as you get started with the habit-formation process.
Start a new habit during Prime Time
The best time to work on high-priority activities is when you feel the freshest. Especially when installing a new habit, it's important to make space for the "new you" when you're in a peak state.
This peak state opens a golden window of opportunity: what Brian Tracy calls Prime Time. It's the few short hours of the day when you're operating at your fullest, highest capacity.
Mentally clear, physically energized, emotionally stable. In this state, you can make better decisions and get more done than at any other time of day. And everything you do within this window feels easier.
This is when you'll do your activity.
Keep in mind, though, Prime Time is different for everyone.
For many people, it's in the morning sometime before noon.
For others, it's late at night after the rest of the world has gone to sleep (i.e. the creatives, coders, and night-owls who do their best work at 2 or 3 am).
The further you schedule your activity outside of Prime Time, the harder it'll be to stay consistent.
Instead of a fail-proof system, you'll end up relying on willpower to do your activity. And if you don't know it already, willpower is not a reliable strategy for creating new habits.
When is your Prime Time?
When you want to start a new habit, it's critical that you leave nothing to chance. That includes the time and place that your activity happens.
Reflect on your typical schedule and identify when your Prime Time is...
Is it in the early morning right after you wake up?
Or is it mid-morning after breakfast, coffee, and news highlights?
Is it in the afternoon or evening?
There's no wrong answer here.
When you know your Prime Time, you can schedule your time and manage your tasks in a way that aligns with your most potent creative energy. It's with this energy that change happens more easily and naturally.
Long-term, sustainable change is not an "overnight" transformation.
So start with baby steps.
Create the intention, then schedule the practice. It's less about doing and more about choosing—you're choosing who you want to be and what kind of future you want to create.
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