Very helpful article---you're right--habit change should not be a struggle. Your suggestions also remind me of mentally prepaving as suggested by Abraham-Hicks, whose material I've just starting getting really into over the past month. The new habit needs to be made familar in our minds first, so it's the next logical step...
My favorite part of the article is:
"If you can’t even make it through the first week of a new habit without feeling an overwhelming urge to quit because you have to push yourself unreasonably hard to keep going, your mistakes were made long before you even began day one. You’re trying to pull off the equivalent of scholar’s mate, and your imaginary “opponent” isn’t stupid enough to fall for it."
It's amazing how well the chess analogy works.... Thanks!
