Titration is an easy way to think about getting out of bad habits. Titration in this context means slowly lowering the quantity of something you are using in order to cut down or eliminate usage. One of the problems with keeping New Year's Resolutions is that your willpower consists of both "I will" power and "I won't" power. The power to do some things and the power to stop doing others. Quitting a bad habit like smoking cigarettes or drinking to excess is very difficult to stop quickly and completely for most people. Titration does a couple of things for you, it lowers the amount of the harmful substance or activity you are doing and it makes you more aware of when you do it-both of which help your overall health.
Kindling is the process by which an event is initiated and its recurrence made more likely. In essence, things you enjoy and that have positive outcomes you are more likely to repeat. Exercise is one way to activate the kindling effect, meditation is also a good way to initiate kindling. The difficulty with both is motivating yourself to start and finding the right kind for your needs.
The general idea behind both titration and kindling is to reinforce good habits and extinguish bad ones. Keep that in mind as you begin the New Year.

Easy Ways to Keep Your New Year's Resolutions
9 out of 10 people that attempt to keep New Year's Resolutions fail within the first six months. One of the main reasons they fail is they make promises to themselves they can't keep. According to Stanford Psychologist Kelly Mcgonigal, willpower is like a muscle, the more you use it, the weaker it gets. One easy way to keep your New Year's Resolutions is to get up early and get some sunshine.

If that is not possible because of your schedule or the climate you live in, Bright Light Therapy might be in order. The beauty of the Nature Bright Sun Bliss 2 is that it fills two functions; it is a portable light therapy machine that helps improve your mood and it is also a wake up light that gently wakes you up in the morning

I love this thing and use it daily. I have trouble getting up in the morning and starting the day with a smile. Since I've been using this that has not been a problem. On a few mornings the past month I've woken up in a positively joyous mood-almost giddy.
The Definition of a Cognitive Bias:

A cognitive bias refers to a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment, whereby inferences about other people and situations may be drawn in an illogical fashion. Individuals create their own "subjective social reality" from their perception of the input.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias
20 Common Cognitive Biases:

 http://www.businessinsider.com/cognitive-biases-that-affect-decisions-2015-8
     I'm starting this blog in an effort to get to the heart of something that deeply interests me: change. How and why people change seems to be the crux of what is important in this world and our survival as a species depends on understanding that process.
     
     Human beings have a deep capacity to delude themselves-one that I very much share, and we seem to be letting it get the best of us. We often know the right thing to do, but seldom do it. 

     Life is complex and confusing, our knowledge limited-our cognitive biases and prejudices overwhelm us and cause us unhappiness and suffering. 
         
      "Hacking" your life means getting to the bottom of these limitations and making a path that takes them into consideration ahead of time.
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