It took me <2 min/day for a month. No will power, guilt or external motivation needed.
Exhibit A, what gets measured gets managed.
“We won’t need to force any change in our behaviour because consciousness itself will take care of this by its intrinsic power.“
His approach: literally write down how much of something you did a day. Every day for a month. For example, number of cookies eaten or time spent on phone.
As we begin to see and realize what we repeatedly do–without needing self-shaming and blame–the power of awareness automatically begins to exert influence on our behaviour and impulses