One of the major key to attaining a new objective is to have a behavior that sustain that objective. If your current habits are counter-productive, you'll need to change them or run the risk of coming up short.
How do habits help you reach your goals?
Let's just say you have the aim to run in a marathon but you don't have the habit of running everyday, it's probable that you won't attain that objective of yours until you adopt the habit of running regularly. Running regularly can help you attain your goal in several ways, including getting you in great physical shape and strengthening your endurance.
Developing supportive habits can be easier than you think and far more powerful than you can imagine!
Identify the Habits You Need
Before you create new, positive habits, you'll want to figure out which habits will help you attain your goals. For every goal, there are habits that can practically guarantee success. Think about your objectives and what particular undertakings you can do to help make them come out.
Reflect on these points for the habits you need to execute:
1. Look for daily habits. Habits you do everyday are simpler to organize and keep than those you seldom do.
2. Keep it simple. The more the task is difficult, the more you stay away from it. But if it's really important to apply a difficult habit, you can begin on easier version and then add more difficulty later on.
3. Be specific. It's not enough to just specify what you're going to do; include the how, when, and where as well. Time is always critical when creating a new habit. Make sure to have a specific period of time in which you want to execute the new habits.
- So "I'm going to exercise 1 hour per day" is inadequate. "I'm going to swim from 6-7 am, Monday through Friday at the YMCA" is more like it. This has enough detail to be quite clear about what you want to accomplish and includes the how, when and where.
Prepare for Interference
Expect barriers when creating new habits and behavioral patterns. Identify these obstructions ahead of time so you can do something about it as soon as you can.
For example, if you've decided that you're going to eat a healthy breakfast every day, get rid of all the breakfast junk food in your pantry and freezer. That junk food is an obstacle to successfully implementing your habit.
Obstacles can be considered time intrusion. Maybe your partner doesn't usually leave you alone for 30 minutes every night so you can meditate, write, read, or whatever it is you want to do towards your goal. Let your partner know earlier that you should not be interrupted during this time.
Look for More Supporting Habits
When you determine supporting habits that will help you reach your goal, consider going even deeper into the details to find habits that will help you accomplish your other new habits.
For example, if one of your new habits is to make it to the gym every morning by 6:00 am, you can develop several supporting habits to help you establish this habit, such as:
- Wake up at 5:15 am.
- In order to get up at 5:15 am each day, you might need an additional habit of always being in bed by 10:00 pm.
- Another supporting habit might be to pack your gym bag the night before.
These supporting habits are monumentally important. Take time to meditate about other habits that you can build up to sustain your efforts.
Enjoy Automatic Success
When the actions become habitual, you automatically do it without deciding to do it each time. In other words, you'll automatically move forward, day after day, toward achieving your goal until you reach it.
Just as counter-productive habits can keep you from success, supportive habits can practically guarantee your victory. Implement those habits that best hold up your goal each and everyday and you enjoy your new success!
How do habits help you reach your goals?
Let's just say you have the aim to run in a marathon but you don't have the habit of running everyday, it's probable that you won't attain that objective of yours until you adopt the habit of running regularly. Running regularly can help you attain your goal in several ways, including getting you in great physical shape and strengthening your endurance.
Developing supportive habits can be easier than you think and far more powerful than you can imagine!
Identify the Habits You Need
Before you create new, positive habits, you'll want to figure out which habits will help you attain your goals. For every goal, there are habits that can practically guarantee success. Think about your objectives and what particular undertakings you can do to help make them come out.
Reflect on these points for the habits you need to execute:
1. Look for daily habits. Habits you do everyday are simpler to organize and keep than those you seldom do.
2. Keep it simple. The more the task is difficult, the more you stay away from it. But if it's really important to apply a difficult habit, you can begin on easier version and then add more difficulty later on.
3. Be specific. It's not enough to just specify what you're going to do; include the how, when, and where as well. Time is always critical when creating a new habit. Make sure to have a specific period of time in which you want to execute the new habits.
- So "I'm going to exercise 1 hour per day" is inadequate. "I'm going to swim from 6-7 am, Monday through Friday at the YMCA" is more like it. This has enough detail to be quite clear about what you want to accomplish and includes the how, when and where.
Prepare for Interference
Expect barriers when creating new habits and behavioral patterns. Identify these obstructions ahead of time so you can do something about it as soon as you can.
For example, if you've decided that you're going to eat a healthy breakfast every day, get rid of all the breakfast junk food in your pantry and freezer. That junk food is an obstacle to successfully implementing your habit.
Obstacles can be considered time intrusion. Maybe your partner doesn't usually leave you alone for 30 minutes every night so you can meditate, write, read, or whatever it is you want to do towards your goal. Let your partner know earlier that you should not be interrupted during this time.
Look for More Supporting Habits
When you determine supporting habits that will help you reach your goal, consider going even deeper into the details to find habits that will help you accomplish your other new habits.
For example, if one of your new habits is to make it to the gym every morning by 6:00 am, you can develop several supporting habits to help you establish this habit, such as:
- Wake up at 5:15 am.
- In order to get up at 5:15 am each day, you might need an additional habit of always being in bed by 10:00 pm.
- Another supporting habit might be to pack your gym bag the night before.
These supporting habits are monumentally important. Take time to meditate about other habits that you can build up to sustain your efforts.
Enjoy Automatic Success
When the actions become habitual, you automatically do it without deciding to do it each time. In other words, you'll automatically move forward, day after day, toward achieving your goal until you reach it.
Just as counter-productive habits can keep you from success, supportive habits can practically guarantee your victory. Implement those habits that best hold up your goal each and everyday and you enjoy your new success!
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