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Day 19 Did 15 minutes of meditation once more. During meditation my main distractions are my mind trying to solve problems like: what will I wear today etc? I try to notice and bring my mind back to my breath.

Good to see that it's giving you some ideas. I don't wake up at the same time every day. Especially when I was sick I would sleep in more. You can see from the timestamp on my posts here. But waking up is something I do every day (at least it's been a while since I pulled an all nighter :)). So it's a good trigger, you just have to commit that no matter what time it is when you wake up, you just start meditating and worry about everything else later. Hope that helps! Day 18 Did 15 minutes of meditation again. Felt more focused after doing it.

Hi, Maximus. Thanks for your reply. I still do it once I wake up (my trigger). Day 17 Did 15 minutes of meditation once more upon waking.

@Wisebaxter I'm practicing a technique called Anapanasati. Where I focus on my natural breath during meditation. Day 16 Did 15 minutes of meditation again. I'm feeling the habit is becoming more and more automatic.

Day 15 Did 15 minutes of meditation. Starting to feel like a long time to meditate :).

Day 14 Did 10 minutes of meditation again. That's 2 weeks completed!!!

Day 13 Did 10 minutes of meditation once more. It's getting easier, or maybe that's because I'm not sick anymore

Day 12 Did 10 minutes of meditation. On the upside, I've nearly recovered from being ill. But somehow my brain was feeling very foggy this morning during meditation.

Day 11 Did 10 minutes of meditation. Starting to feel easier doing the habit.

Thanks! Day 10 Did 10 minutes of meditation again. Slowly getting better from my illness.

Day 9 Did 10 minutes of meditation. Still feeling quite sick :(.

Thanks! Day 8 I did 10 minutes of meditation today. However I didn't do it immediately after my trigger. I have a throat infection, so first I got some water and called in sick before meditating

Day 7 Did 5 minutes again, thereby finishing a complete week of doing meditation for 5 minutes. Therefore, I feel safe to increase the amount to 10 minutes for next week.

Day 6 Did 5 minutes of meditation once more. Getting easier to do it without much conscious thought.

Day 5 Did 5 minutes of meditation today. During my session I noticed my mind quite distracted with things I got to do today and planning them etc.

No thanks, it's more important for me to build the habit at this moment. Then I can easily increase the amount of time doing my habit. Day 4 Did 5 minutes of meditation again after waking up. Felt no resistance against doing it.

Thanks for your advice. I'm usually good at beating myself up :), but what happened in the past doesn't really matter. So I have to remember that. Day 3 Did 5 minutes of meditation after feeling quite tired waking up. But could get my mind more focused relatively easy today.

Thanks, that's a useful tip! Day 2 Did 5 minutes again after waking up. I noticed my mind was very unfocused, but I still did it.

Thanks! Hi Willy, thanks for your reply! This is not actually motivation, but rather willpower. If you have used up willpower during previous tasks, you are less likely to be able to exercise willpower for new tasks. In the beginning any change requires willpower, after it has become a habit, it should become "automatic". So that's why it's more important for me now to just build a really strong habit instead of trying a lot of things at once and failing over time. See the following wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion Bed time is not a trigger for me because I tend to go to bed at different times, depending on my evening activities, weekday / weekend etc. However, everytime I go to bed I always brush my teeth before going to bed. So brushing my teeth could be a trigger to link a new habit to (for example after I brush my teeth I will do X for 5 minutes). Smoking can indeed be a very hard habit to break usually there are a different triggers causing you to smoke.

Day 1 Did 5 minutes of meditation after waking up. It was quite easy to do. Will answer the other posts in this topic soon.