5 Rules Of Successful Habit Formation
You have decided that you want to change and live your best life.
You’ve got a goal in mind so what`s next?
What type of strategies can you adopt to achieve the success you desire?
You are aware that you will need apply certain success habits to attain your goal, but where do you start?
Well, the rest of this article will highlight 5 rules of successful habit formation that will help ensure you get on the right path immediately.
Plan
Success habits don’t just happen by accident. They are created by design. Formulating a well thought out personal development plan will significantly increase your chances of being able to create new habits successfully.
Think of the plan like a roadmap. Include your starting point, the final goal and all the steps along the way. Don’t forget to note down potential stumbling blocks and how you will overcome them.
Including a vision board can be very common with many people in their planning. This is a great way to see what your goal looks like and when placed somewhere that you will see it regularly can reinforce the goal you want to achieve.
Focus
You must be committed to your goal of creating a new habit. If you are not committed, then the chances of succeeding in attaining it reduce dramatically. Believing that you will create your new habit and to be able to see yourself doing it is a vitally important step, so staying focused is imperative.
Be sure to physically write down a statement that identifies you have created your new habit. Seeing this in front of you and backed up with positive affirmations will also help keep you motivated to stick with it going forward.
For example, if you want to create the success habit of waking early then you could write:
‘I wake at 5.00 am every day refreshed and ready to start my day. I use my extra time to run for 20 minutes and to eat a healthy breakfast. I spend 30 minutes reading a motivational book because I know that it helps me improve my knowledge and will inspire me. Before I start my work I make sure that I plan my day and make sure that I know which tasks are important for helping me to achieve my goal.’
Know Yourself
Crucial to creating new habits, as well as eliminating old ones is self knowledge.
You need to understand your strengths and weaknesses. It is important to know where you are right now, where you want to be and what needs to change.
By knowing yourself you can create a growth mindset. This ensures that you understand that action is important, as by taking action you create change which ultimately leads to success.
Practice
Habits take 21 days to become routine. This means that you need to ensure that you build time into every day to practice your new habit.
To ensure that you complete the full 21 days you need to plan and you need to identify any potential stumbling points that may cause you to want to skip a day. Knowing what might interfere in your daily habit practice ensures that you can put in place plans to overcome it.
Acquiring a positive mindset is key, as is commitment. When you commit to creating your new success habit you will understand why it is important to your overall plans and goals.
Adhering to it will also enable you be to overcome stumbling points and ensure that you practice your new habit every day until it becomes a routine part of your daily life.
Reward
When you set out to create a new success habit you have your plan for how you are going to achieve it and what your life will look like once that happens. Don’t forget to build in a reward and make it something that you really want and value. It doesn’t have to be big but it does have to be important to you.
The benefit of planning a reward when you have created your new habit is that you will be invested emotionally in creating the habit.
Write down your reward or get a picture of it and put it somewhere where you will see it every day. This will reinforce the desire to succeed and strengthen your motivation to achieve your goal.
By using the five rules above you will be creating a positive mental attitude towards creating a new success habit. Don’t try to create too many new habits at once. It will be more realistic and easier to create one new habit at a time.
To Your Success!
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