March 2023

How to Create Good Habits that Will Make You (Effortlessly) Successful.

What is the one thing that ultimately makes a person successful?

Is it money, education, talent, looks, experience, or expertise? Any wild

guesses?

Think about it; no matter how talented, rich, educated, or experienced an

individual gets it’s always their conduct or behavior that ultimately defines

them. It's the actions of a person that eventually drive change and that’s a

fact. So what exactly are these actions? How do these actions promise

success? Now, these acts are not momentarily actions that a person performs

occasionally. These are the habits of a person - something they do all the time

daily without feeling like they’re putting too much effort in.

Importance of Building Good Habits

Your habits ultimately define who you are and what you want to achieve in

life. This makes it extremely essential to adopt good ones and ditch the ones

that aren’t in your favor. Bad habits are the key to bringing a person down

and hindering their journey to success and triumph. Although it's easy to

understand that it’s important to adopt good habits; building them takes

patience, consistency, and courage. The hard part of the course is learning

how to build good habits but it’s not impossible.

How to Build Good Habits?

To make things easier for you, we’ve devised 4 principles that’ll make the

transition seem more practical and ensure undeniable success once followed

properly. Let's get down to the nitty-gritty of building good habits and

shedding some light upon the four principles based by James Clear’s Atomic Habits - the definitive guide to breaking bad behaviors and adopting good

ones.

1. Recognition

2. Appealing

3. Simplification

4. Reinforcement and fulfilment

Recognition

The first and foremost thing to do is to recognize and acknowledge your

habits that are serving your best you. Then identify new behaviors you’re your

serve the best you or at least a better you. What is the best way to do this?

Write down all of your usual behaviors and then identify whether each one is

favorable and unfavorable. You might think you know what your bad habits

are but once you pen them down you’ll realize you know almost half of them!

Make those habits prominent, pronounced, and apparent to the point you

have them at your fingertips. This gives you the power to have control over

your habits and you can then go ahead and design an environment where

you dominate your actions with cues, using What, When, and Where

platform. The what is the behavior; the when is the time you will do the new

behavior; the where is the location you will conduct your new behavior. There

are two ways to do this system

System Technique #1

“I will [what is the new behavior] at [when and how often will you do the new

behavior] in [where will you do the new behavior].”

I will do cardiovascular exercise for 20 minutes at 7am 3x per week in the local

gym.

System Technique #2

“After [current habit], I will [do new behavior].”

After exercising only when I feel like, I will do cardiovascular exercise for 20

minutes at 7am 3x per week in the local gym.

Appealing

After you've made yourself aware of the current habits and familiarized

yourself with what your stance is; the next step is to make it appealing to you.

Let's face it if you don't find it attractive, you're not going to do it. The best

way to make it attractive is to Pair your wants with your needs to get the best

of both worlds! This is called temptation bundling where the needed action is

achieved by pairing it with a desired action, you're more than willing to do. A

supportive environment is key to driving change so build a space or join a

culture where your desired behavior is the normal behavior. Surround

yourself with motivational successful personnel and elements and you'll

automatically pick up on habits without even feeling like you're putting in too

much effort! Another great way to get you moving is coming up with a ritual

that motivates you i.e. doing something you enjoy and doing it right before a

difficult habit.

Simplification

Who wants to get out of their comfort zone and put in extra effort to improve

themselves? Nobody. This is why it is important to streamline and simplify the

process to make it easy to achieve. Make your goals attainable and not too

far-fetched. You can do this by decreasing the number of steps between you

and your good habits, and again preparing an environment that makes your

future actions easier. Pay special attention to small decisions that deliver

colossal impact and see how it completely changes the game. Another great

way to make it easier is by downscaling your habits until they can be done in

two minutes or less. Technology can be your best friend during this time.

Reinforcement and Fulfilment

Last but not least you need to feel fulfilled when you switch your habits. Just

because the process is not a piece of cake doesn't mean it has to be

frustrating and not enjoyable. It's pretty similar to doing good deeds it should

make you feel good in a certain way and give you a sense of achievement.

The best way to do this is by providing reinforcement and rewarding yourself

immediately when you complete your habit. Reinforcement is a great trick to

boost your motivation and make the transition seamless and practical. You

can also provide reinforcement by keeping track of a habit streak by not

breaking the chain and bouncing right back once you do accidentally break

it.

So what are you waiting for? This is your sign to get moving and fetch the

long-awaited success that has been destined for you. This is your time to

make your mark and shine with the most practical and doable steps toward

success.

Here's the scorecard to get you started on YOUR journey to unquestionable success.

Daily Habits Scorecard

Positive (+), Negative (-), or Neutral (=)

8.

● To start off; make a list of your daily habits.

● Start at the beginning of your day - what are your habits as soon as you

wake up?

● Write down each habit you do i.e. wake up, turn off your alarm, make

your bed, brush your teeth, etc.

● You can make this list long or short but a long, comprehensive list is

more effective.

● Once the list is done; look at your behaviors and ask yourself if it’s a

good habit, a bad habit, or a neutral habit.

● For a good habit, write “+” next to it.

● If it is a bad habit, write “-” next to it.

● If it is a neutral habit, write “=” next to it.

When creating your Habits Scorecard, there is no need to change anything at

first. The goal of this exercise is not to change your behavior— even bad

habits. The goal is to simply self-aware. Good luck!