Ever wondered how some people just seem to have good habits, they manage to run three times a week, eat a healthy salad for their lunch, stay connected with their friends, practice the piano every day…. you get the picture. In my last habits blog I wrote about the importance of choosing something so small that it sits just above doing nothing at all and the fundamental importance of consistency over intensity. This time I want to think about how we can set our environments up for success. In his book Atomic Habits, James Clear, suggests that “you do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems.” What this essentially means is that our environment plays a significant role in shaping even the most minute of human behaviour. In terms of creating a new habit Clear suggests 4 laws that increase the likelihood of theses habits sticking around · Make it obvious · Make it attractive · Make it easy · Make is satisfy