How to stick to new habits

I saw a good posting on lifehack.org today that says how to stick to your new habits and ditch the old ones. They are mostly common sensical, but they say the commonly overlooked ones are the obvious.

I am writing some of them here so that I don't lose track of them:

• Make it a 30 day habit.
• Keep it consistent - the environmental factors.
• Keep it daily - a lesser frequency won't make it sticky.
• Start simple - don't be overambitious in the beginning.
• Keep a remainder - this is the most common sensical thing.
• Use but - this seems to be a technique: when one is in a train of negative thoughts, interrupt them with but.
• Remove tempting elements from the environment
• Associate with role models
• Run it as an experiment - don't worry about the end result from the beginning, just continue with it for 30 days.
• Swish - a technique where one visualizes the -ve habit, then interrupts it with the +ve one and then at the end finally feeling very positive.

These are really good techniques - or hacks, to be precise. In fact it is also not wrong to keep all those one minute motivators handy so that it gives us some instant energy. I am gonna collect them and keep them somewhere.