Hitting the “0” willpower level might be when something becomes part of your identity. It costs me willpower to not do cardio or lift for more than a day or so—something feels off and aversive about it, just like it used to in the reverse situation. The only downside is that I’m not very excited or proud of myself for doing a workout, it’s just “normal”. But that’s life! I’m still glad I do it.
There are a few habits that I seem to drop once they get easy to do—I did yoga every day for a while but once it got easy and habitual I got bored and stopped. In retrospect I should’ve found a way to raise the difficulty, but for some reason that wasn’t clear at the time. Consciously planning around “what should I do if this gets boring” would probably help.
Hitting the “0” willpower level might be when something becomes part of your identity. It costs me willpower to not do cardio or lift for more than a day or so—something feels off and aversive about it, just like it used to in the reverse situation. The only downside is that I’m not very excited or proud of myself for doing a workout, it’s just “normal”. But that’s life! I’m still glad I do it.
There are a few habits that I seem to drop once they get easy to do—I did yoga every day for a while but once it got easy and habitual I got bored and stopped. In retrospect I should’ve found a way to raise the difficulty, but for some reason that wasn’t clear at the time. Consciously planning around “what should I do if this gets boring” would probably help.