Today & the next seven days we will be talking about, Habits that can change your life. Place take your time to go through them & meditate on them 7 Little Habits That Can Change Your Life, and How to Form Them “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle If you could just pick one or two (or seven) habits to create in the next few months — habits that will have the most impact on your life — what would they be? It’s not an easy question. There are so many changes I’ve gone through, from quitting smoking to simplifying my life to reducing debt to many more. And they’ve all seemed life-changing, and they’ve all seemed important. But if I were to start again, and had to pick one or two, it would be the one or two listed below. The list that follows is in order of what I think I’d do the first 6-7 months of changing my life … but realize that every person is different. No one should follow my choices exactly — you’ve got to figure out what works for you. That said, if you followed the program below, and worked to develop these habits, you’d probably do pretty well. “Men’s natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.” - Confucius How to Develop the Habits I’ve written a number of times about developing habits, but here are the basics: • Do a 30-day challenge, focusing on just ONE habit. • Write it out on paper, along with your motivations, obstacles, and strategies for overcoming them. • Commit fully, in a public way. • Log your progress. • Remain publicly accountable — report on your progress each day. • Have support for when you falter — either in real life or online. • Reward every little success. • If you fail, figure out what went wrong, plan for it, and try again. The Seven Little Habits That Can Change Your Life OK, so now you know how to form a habit — and remember, only do them one at a time — but you want to know the seven little habits. Here they are, in my order of preference (but yours may be different): thank you for going through the introduction join me tomorrow as we talk about the first habit dat can change our lives.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:02:09 +0000
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