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Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

BEHAVIOR CHANGE IS KEY TO CREATING

In his book The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg states that to be successful at changing habits, you should address only one habit at a time. If you work on two habits, the likelihood of failure increases; if you work on three or more, you will undoubtedly fail at all of them. This chapter reveals the secret to building (and keeping) a new habit. For the following exercises, work on each habit for two weeks to one month at a time before adding the next one. These habit exercises have been used successfully by thousands of people. We are 100 percent confident that you too can get great benefit from practicing them. And you’ll form mindfulness and appreciation while doing so.

“We are what we repeatedly do.

Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” —Aristotle

Building a habit requires following a series of smaller steps. The tough part is fitting these steps into your busy life. It is difficult for mountain athletes to find the time outside of their longer workouts, family priorities, and job responsibilities, but with these simple tricks, you can quickly improve by 1 percent—every day. One of my favorite “habit” bloggers is James Clear. His newest book, Atomic Habits, will get you started on creating your path more clearly. His “1 percent better” rule, detailed in the book, is about becoming 1 percent better every day. Think of all of the little things you could get 1 percent better at. That’s 365 percent better at something by the end of one year. Those are some pretty incredible numbers! I (Mercedes) have implemented some of Clear’s ideas in my own life over the past few years. Use these hacks to integrate his ideas into each day so that you can stay strong, eat well, and crush your athletic goals.