The addition method – creating a new task, starting a new program, developing a new habit.
The subtraction method – reviewing which 10-20% of the tasks you are doing, or ways your are living which aren’t serving you and simply stopping.
Yes we may need to “overwrite” the bad habit with something else. Yes it might take time.
However, while the addition method consumes more resources, the subtraction method frees up more resources.
One is energy intensive, one gives energy.
When it’s all said and done at the end of the day, if there’s something you are doing that’s simply not working, sometimes we just need to stop, before we create something new.