think of how many habits you can change with the tortoise strategy in a year verses how many you start and stop with the hare strategy. every change creates an equal and opposite force of resistance to change. to keep resistance low, change slower than your excitement propels you to. hold yourself back… it builds anticipation. if you don’t, excitement inevitably wears off, and resistance will chop you down when you’re weakest, putting you back to square one. One. Habit. At. A. Time. aim for changes that stick a year, 3 years, or 10 years, and pace yourself accordingly.

- buster benson on behavior change and habit labs’ great new idea, the hipster habit app | thanks to dianakimball [emphasis mine]