Cultivate Success Habits

One of the important steps to become successful is to build awareness about your current habits. Do they support you in achieving your goals or are they a hindrance?

Sit down with a piece of paper and draw 2 columns. One column for your limiting habits and the other for productive habits. Be honest with yourself. You gain nothing by trying to hide your limiting habits.

Ask people who are close to you what they think are your limiting and productive habits and add them to your list.

For each limiting habit, what new habit can you replace it with that would support the achievement of your goals? Write as many as possible.

Did you know that anything that you do consistently for 13 weeks would become a permanent habit? That's right.

Decide what habits you want to cultivate within the next year (start date and end date). Prioritize which habits you want to cultivate first. Count 13 weeks from the start to the end date - this should divide the year into 4 quarters. I recommend you list 3 or 4 habits you want to cultivate in each quarter to avoid overwhelming yourself with trying to do too much.

Now that that's done, put a system in place to will support it. For example, if you want to lose weight, you might want to block 40 minutes after work 3 times a week to go to the gym. Or maybe you want to reduce the money spent on coffee by bringing a flask of coffee from home for breakfast.

I'd done my list and my support system 4 days ago. Good luck to us.