Habit Stacking Is Nice. Happiness Stacking Is Better.

In Atomic Habits, James Clear popularized the idea of “habit stacking”—layering new habits on top of existing ones to help make them stick more easily.

The idea with happiness stacking is to build new habits on top of existing habits to help make them stick, just like habit stacking—only here you’re stacking small thrills into the routines that irk you most.