How To Hack Yourself

How to hack your motivation, according to a decision scientist

Tips to help you stick to your New Year’s resolutions

Happy New Year! As always, some resolutions might not go as planned, but this year, let’s get you set up for success with a few tips for hacking your motivation.

I bet more than a few of you have made New Year’s resolutions in the classic categories: diet and exercise. You’ll be happy to know that you’re in good company — those are the most popular resolutions according to the results of pretty much every online survey since dinosaurs roamed the earth. So that’s where we’ll draw our examples from (body goals, not dinosaurs) but the contents of this article can be adapted to almost any type of self-improvement.

Different people are different, so what works for you might not be what works for anyone else.

Understanding this is the single biggest step you can take in the direction of success. To make your resolution work for you, you’ll need to do some aggressive self-discovery and hack your own motivation.

If you’re not failing, it means you’re not learning.