Strategies for making new habits?

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For a while now I've been trying to add new habits to my day-to-day life (like exercise, meditation to help with anxiety, a couple other things), but I'm so stuck in my daily routine that I have trouble actually doing it. I have the time to do those things, but I have trouble with motivation and energy (mostly from depression and fibromyalgia, I think), and I think my executive function issues also make it difficult to pick up those new habits. Does anyone else have similar problems? Do you have any particular strategies that might help adding something new to your daily routines?

I'd had to say, "Just do it," but that's about it.

It takes 30 days of consistent repetition to ingrain a new good habit. It can take as little as seven days to break a good habit.

If you've decided to do something, integrate it into your schedule and force yourself to stick with it. In a month, you should be able to do it as if it's second nature.

    I think just about everybody in the world has a similar problem.

    I use positive autocognitive reprocessing which is addressing your unconscious mind (in a way that it knows it's being directly addressed) and asking it to search my life experiences for clues and to make a program to achieve the results I want in an appropriate way and to integrate that program into my already functioning systems.*

The method I use for myself or others works on the first try and is fully operating by the next day, about 19 out of every 20 issues.
The last 1 may need revisited, maybe up to several times and all but about ten percent of those are readily resolvable.
Most people have the mental horsepower to do this for about 6 issues/day.

*this is fast and easy to do but does require an understanding of how the unconscious communicates and the philosophy behind permissive problem solving, otherwise one can get some rather unusual and disappointing results.

Try telling yourself "just for five minutes". It really helps me with inertia because it's a minor commitment, but gets me moving in some kind of direction. On bad days, I do this over and over again. Sometimes it is just for five minutes, but most of the time it's enough momentum to continue.