Prioritise This

Prioritise This

What about the habits you just don’t want to do?

Here's a little trick for your brain...

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Lily Silverton
Sep 16, 2025
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Remember how I used to hate flossing?

(Here with the hard-hitting journalism.)

If so, you may recall that I overcame my resistance by attaching my sense of self to the habit of flossing with the catchy internal mantra: “I am the kind of person who cares about their dental health”.

It worked. It works.

The thing is, as keen readers may also remember, histo…

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