I can relate to the lifestyle related bit. Especially because I have on both the short term and the long term side of things.
If good things make it into becoming longtime changes, it feels great until they are so natural that you hardly think about them conciously anymore.
Lately, I have a hard time making short term changes into long timers, I think that the changes I went through over the course of the last couple years did their part there.
Making short term changes into "long timers" is the most difficult part about the process. I have found that it works best to write down one thing that I want to change in the short term. Then keep working at it until it is "so natural that you hardly think about them". Cheers!
For someone who posts as frequently as I do around here, I am remarkably lazy when it comes to writing so changing that would probably one of the best short term/long term changes to make.
Knowing what you want to change puts you a step ahead of everyone else!