Good Habits – 8 Easy Ways To Create Life-Changing Habits
Are you struggling to form good habits? Here are 8 super easy, obvious ways to create life-changing habits in your life.
Let’s chat about good habits.
I’m sure we all know that while motivation is what gets you started, its good habits that keep you going.
Your habits will determine your future and once you take control of your habits, you will take control of your life.
That being said, it’s easy to see how with the right habits, we can:
- Create a successful business,
- Have a fit and toned body
- Or cultivate a nurturing relationship.
But many of us get so stuck when it comes to implementing new habits.
This is even though we KNOW effective habits are the key to accomplishing anything.
FYI: Motivation is largely irrelevant when it comes to habits.
You don’t have to be motivated to brush your teeth – you just do it without fighting with yourself.
You don’t need to be motivated to change your underwear every day.
You just do it because it is a HABIT.
Unfortunately, no one specifically teaches us back in school how to specifically create a good habit.
Yet if you can create habits at will, you will seriously become unstoppable.
Follow this process to create the habits you need to excel at life:
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TIP # 1 – Identify the habit you want to create.
Often, people are too vague in their objectives.
They might want to “eat healthier”, for example.
But that’s not a well-defined habit.
“Eat one cup of vegetables with every meal” is a habit.
- Be clear on the habit you want to create, whether it’s 50 pushups each day or reading 10 pages of a book. It should be obvious to you by the end of the day whether you’ve done it or not.
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TIP # 2 – List the benefits of that habit.
Why do you want to create this habit?
What are you getting out of it?
Convince yourself that this is worth your time and effort.
Create a little motivation and sense of urgency.
- Habits can be challenging to create, so know the advantages of your new habit. It will make things easier when you don’t feel like doing it.
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TIP # 3 – Determine the best time to perform that desired habit each day.
Does it make sense to do your habit in the morning?
At night?
During your lunch break?
If you wear a dress to work, performing 100 squats at the office might be inconvenient.
Choose a time of day that will best support your new habit.
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TIP # 4 – Stack your new habit on top of an old habit.
Habits need a trigger.
You don’t just randomly eat a bag of chips.
You might eat chips while watching TV or when feeling a certain emotion, such as anxiety or boredom.
Every habit has a trigger.
- The most convenient trigger is something that you already do religiously each day. You have a ton of them.
- Here are a few examples: brushing your teeth, getting dressed, making your coffee, opening your front door, starting your car, getting your mail, and checking your email.
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Choose a trigger for your habit that makes sense.
- For example, you might do your exercise routine after brushing your teeth or after opening your front door when you get home. Connect the dots so the new habit has a trigger.
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TIP # 5 – Make it easy to perform the new habit.
If you’re going to go running every morning, have your running clothes and other gear right by your bed.
Set up your environment to accommodate your new habit.
Make it as EASY as possible for you to succeed.
TIP # 6 – Start small and grow from there.
Start by having a goal of doing one push up, jog for two minutes, read one page, write one sentence, or make one sales call.
Habits are built by actually doing them.
You might have a goal of making 100 sales calls per day, but that might be too overwhelming to even get started.
But that’s okay.
Remember it’s all about starting small!
Make it so easy that you can’t fail.
Anyone can find the time and motivation to do one push up or read for one minute or jog for two minutes.
TIP # 7 – Reward yourself.
Habits become habits because there is a reward.
This encourages the behavior to happen again and again.
You can seriously use any reward you like, but the key is to feel good.
You can put up your feet for a few minutes, take a long bath, listen to your favorite song, or come up with another reward that positively reinforces for you that habit.
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TIP # 8 – Be consistent.
Habits are more easily built if done multiple times each day.
Once a day is quite effective too but once a week is unlikely to work.
In the end I want you to think about the goals and challenges in your life.
What habits could you create in order to make your life exactly what you want it to be?
With the effective habits, nothing is out of your reach.
It truly isn’t so go for it!
Everyone has habits. Some are good; others are not. Considering that we are all defined by our actions, it is important that we lose our bad habits. By doing that, our lives will be much better.Robert Henley
Energy is usually at its peak during the first part of your day, which means you should be completing habits that inspire or excite you about the day ahead.S. J. Scott
Replacing just a few key negative habits with a few positive habits can easily be the difference between being mostly unhappy and being happy almost all of the time.Tynan
By developing and practicing good habits each day, you affirm that you do have control over the very core of your life in the midst of the chaos.Stephen Guise
Good habits can be developed through repetition. By incorporating behaviors, task and attitude to the regular routines, they usually become a habit, thus becoming natural and virtually effortless.Kellie Sullivan
First we form habits then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they’ll eventually conquer you.Dr. Rob Gilbert
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