Create Helpful Habits. - Brian Tracy “Successful people are simply those with successful habits.” Pretty simple. Our habits are what we tend to do consistently in our day to day life and so they control our success – or lack of it – very much. What are successful habits? Some you can find in this article. A few others are: Do the most productive thing right now. Do one thing at a time. Do things even when you don’t feel like it. How do you install them in your life? Two tips: The 30 day challenge. You have probably read about this old personal development concept before. Basically, you make a deal with yourself to do one thing for just 30 days (one example: exercise every day) and no more than that. But after those 30 days you may discover that your mind will have become so accustomed to this new behaviour that it will be easier to continue doing it than stop doing it. Just focus on the process. While doing something for those 30 days you focus on the process rather than the results. I for instance use this when I workout. I don’t take responsibility for the results in my mind. I take responsibility for showing up – even the days when I don’t feel like it – and doing my workout. The results come anyway from that consistent action. And this makes it easier for me to take this action and establish the new habit when I know that is all I need to focus on. Instead of using half of the energy and focus I have available on hoping that I “reach my goal real, real soon”. Focus on the process and you will be a lot more relaxed and prone to continue than if you stare yourself blind on the potential results that never come as quickly as you want to and puts you on an emotional roller coaster from day to day.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 17:05:33 +0000
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