I think this puts too much emphasis on making habits and not enough on breaking them.
First of all we have to remember that everyone has habits. Unless you wake up every day as if you were just born with no idea what to do yet, then you have habits. Quite likely you'll do something like wash, change your clothes, imbibe fluids etc. In fact, your entire day will likely consist almost entirely of habits.
So when we say "make habits" what we really mean is replacing some habits with other habits. If you want to start running you'll need to make time for that. Some other habit will have to give. It's a zero-sum game. If the habit that gives is "mindless scrolling of social media" then that's generally considered a good thing, but if the habit that gives is cleaning your house or sleep then it's probably not.
It's easy to replace a habit like cleaning your house with a habit like running because cleaning your house sucks. It's less easy to replace mindless scrolling, though. Making the habit is not the difficult thing here, breaking the habit is.
So what's difficult about breaking habits? Well, if we know something is bad for us, it should be easy to stop doing it. If, for some reason, you had a habit of banging your head on a wall and it hurt and was unpleasant, you'd just stop doing it. But we know this isn't the case for a lot of bad habits. Things that you can't stop doing despite knowing they are harmful to you are called addictions.
Any talk about habits without even mentioning addiction is not going to get anywhere. The article seems to be like a "can't beat 'em, join 'em" attitude where you try to make the "good things" just as addictive as the bad things. I don't think this will work. I think you need to identify and attack addictions first.
Huh, for some reason I'm one of these people who wake up every day with no plan. I am not sure if that's because of ADHD or CPTSD but I start every day with empty head and a bit of anxiety. It takes me at least 15 minutes to remind myself that I have to go to work.
First of all we have to remember that everyone has habits. Unless you wake up every day as if you were just born with no idea what to do yet, then you have habits. Quite likely you'll do something like wash, change your clothes, imbibe fluids etc. In fact, your entire day will likely consist almost entirely of habits.
So when we say "make habits" what we really mean is replacing some habits with other habits. If you want to start running you'll need to make time for that. Some other habit will have to give. It's a zero-sum game. If the habit that gives is "mindless scrolling of social media" then that's generally considered a good thing, but if the habit that gives is cleaning your house or sleep then it's probably not.
It's easy to replace a habit like cleaning your house with a habit like running because cleaning your house sucks. It's less easy to replace mindless scrolling, though. Making the habit is not the difficult thing here, breaking the habit is.
So what's difficult about breaking habits? Well, if we know something is bad for us, it should be easy to stop doing it. If, for some reason, you had a habit of banging your head on a wall and it hurt and was unpleasant, you'd just stop doing it. But we know this isn't the case for a lot of bad habits. Things that you can't stop doing despite knowing they are harmful to you are called addictions.
Any talk about habits without even mentioning addiction is not going to get anywhere. The article seems to be like a "can't beat 'em, join 'em" attitude where you try to make the "good things" just as addictive as the bad things. I don't think this will work. I think you need to identify and attack addictions first.