How I Trained Myself To Stick To Any Good Habit in 21 Days How I Trained Myself To Stick To Any Good Habit in 21 Days Sticking to a habit feels harder than it should. Most of us start strong but give up after a few days — I’ve been there too. But this time, I decided to change that and trained myself to stick to any good habit in just 21 days. Here’s exactly how I did it so you can try it too. The First Thing - Remove All the Distractions Remove all the bad habits first. Stop scrolling reels, stop eating junk food. And try not to use social media unless it’s a part of your work. Remember, “When a man gets pleasure, he forgets his goals.” Being Bored is Better Than Scrolling Reels Studies show that embracing boredom actually helps your mental health and builds long-term thinking. Scrolling reels might entertain you for a moment, but it kills focus in the long run. If you want real growth and want to rise above, learn to sit with boredom. Plan Your Day Realistically...
From Average to Unstoppable in 21 Days
Everyone wants to change. But, nobody’s willing to put that effort in it. I will tell you in this blog post how to actually change your life.
The first step is to change old habits ⇒ it could be waking up late, junk food, etc. First, start with waking up early. Start waking up between 5:00 AM to 7:00 AM. Yes, if you can’t wake up at 5 AM, wake up at 7. If your schedule doesn’t allow you to wake up early and you work till 12 AM or 1 AM, then 7:00 AM is the best time in which you can wake up.
Early rising isn’t about bragging rights; it’s about owning quiet hours when the world hasn’t started shouting yet. In those first minutes, you either choose your day or your day chooses you. If alarms have failed you before, place your phone across the room, prepare your clothes at night, and decide the first task before you sleep. Make it so easy that waking up feels like pressing “start” instead of fighting a war. Consistency > perfection. If you miss a day, you didn’t fail—you just continue the streak today.
Now, the second thing you do is wash your mouth, do your day-to-day tasks, and everything. Then, go sit in a quiet place and meditate for 10–15 minutes every day. It will help you to stay calm, relaxed, and focused.
Meditation is not about “emptying your mind.” It’s training yourself to notice thoughts and return to the present. For the first three days, you might hate it—your brain will sprint everywhere. That’s normal. Count your breaths to ten and repeat. If thoughts come, let them pass like cars on a road. After two weeks, the gap between stimulus and reaction gets wider—you pause before you speak, you breathe before you panic, and your focus sharpens when it’s time to work.
And the next thing you should do is to read about 20–30 minutes. Whatever your schedule allows and whatever you want to read—human nature, psychology, and money. Because, learning is a part of life. It's not a part of any school or college. Keep learning.
Reading is how you borrow decades of experience in a few hours. Pick one theme per month and go deep: decision-making, focus, health, or finance. Use a simple system—highlight one insight per chapter and write one action you’ll try today. Knowledge without action turns into clutter; knowledge with action becomes momentum. Even ten pages a day is 3,650 pages a year—that’s several life-changing books without feeling heavy.
And, now you're done with your morning routine. Hit the gym whenever you prefer it could be in the morning, maybe evening or maybe a intense home workout. And, after reading, meditating and exercising. Get locked in -doing your work.
Training your body trains your standards. If you can push one more rep when your muscles burn, you can push one more minute when your mind wants to quit. Gym or home, it doesn’t matter—what matters is intensity and honesty. Track your workouts and aim for tiny wins: one extra set, two extra push-ups, a faster kilometer. That progress leaks into everything else—you start demanding more from yourself at school, at work, and at home.
Have a minimum of 1:30 to 2:00 hours of focused deep work. If, you're a business owner or a startup owner or maybe a programmer. Then, work should be 2-4 hours. But, if you are at a job 9-5. You should be doing 1-2 hours of deep work focusing on your own skills, developing your skills so you can work for yourself and make a side income. And, yeah that 1:30 to 2:00 hours of deep work should be for students who are in high school, or college. It will help them grow.
Deep work is a promise you make to your future self. Phone on airplane mode, tabs closed, timer set. Work in 50–60 minute blocks with a 5–10 minute break—repeat two to four times. Create a “distraction list”: whenever a random thought hits, write it down and return to the task. Most people spread their energy across ten things and finish nothing. You’ll choose one thing and finish it, then the next, and the next. That’s how momentum is built.
This blog is not written for everyone. It is made for the people who want to stand out and be uncommon amongst uncommon. And, now everything should be clear for all of you-
- Wake up early
- Meditate. (These are The non- Negotiable)
- Read
- Exercise
- And, focused deep work.
Think of these as your daily “wins.” If the day goes sideways, hit these five and you still won. Track them with a simple habit grid on paper: five boxes per day. Color them in. The visual streak will push you to show up even when you don’t feel like it. Remember—the goal isn’t perfection; the goal is identity. You’re becoming the person who does these, no matter what.
Do these non -negotiables for 21 days straight. And, see the magic you were finding was in this routine that everyone wants to avoid and get it all easy. Nothing's easy man you gonna do it the hard way. Easy doesn't counts.
The first week builds discipline. The second week builds belief. The third week builds pride. Somewhere around day 14 you’ll want to quit—that’s the test. Push through that wall and the habits start carrying you instead of you carrying them. The “hard way” becomes your normal, and easy things feel boring. That’s the switch you’re chasing.
You will definitely love it when you'll wake up on 21th day. You will notice changes like never before. And, if you keep doing it for maybe a year . Brother, everyone will be surprised, even you and the one who matters the most in this world is you. Your thoughts matter to you more than anything else in this world.
Picture it: twelve months from now, your friends ask how you became so focused, why you look stronger, why your work is sharper. You’ll smile because there’s no secret—just five daily bricks laid again and again. Guard your mornings, guard your mind, and keep your promises to yourself. You are building a reputation with the person in the mirror—and that reputation changes everything.
Keep grinding, your family is rooting for you, I am rooting for you from afar. And, one thing that i am sure is you will make it .
Thanks for reading.
Bonus tip: Set a weekly review every Sunday: What worked? What didn’t? What will you improve next week? Small adjustments compound into massive results over a year.
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