Habits Shape Our Lives

We live our lives on an autopilot system called habits. From the morning till night whatever we do or say is controlled by our habits. Habits help simplify our lives so we can do the same things over and over again without thinking. While the right habits lead us to success, wrong ones actually hamper it.
If you are not successful in your life, examine things you do during the day, how you do them, how you make your decisions, how you spend your time during the day, what kind of phrases you use. Everything you do, say or even think throughout the day determines your success or failure.
Happily, it is possible to learn new habits that will help you succeed in life. You can’t just get rid of negative habits; they need to be replaced by new ones that will support you to achieve what you want.
Here are some steps to help you succeed with cultivating new habits:
1. You need to have a goal that you want to achieve. Identify your goals.
2. Identify your habits. This requires some thinking. Write down all the activities you do during the day for couple of days, how you make your decisions, what usually affects your decision making (fear, desire to remain in comfort zone no matter how stale it is, laziness, inability to organize yourself, etc).
3. Identify the new habits you need to develop in order to achieve your goals. Imagine that you already have what you want, what kind of person you are? What qualities do you have? Examine the qualities of people who already achieved what you want - what do they have in common? Write down the list of qualities that you need.
4. Think how you can use the new quality in your daily life. Consciously choose to react differently, in a way consistent with the new quality you are cultivating.
Let’s say you want to use your time more effectively and identified some time wasters such as checking e-mails every 10 minutes. Decide that you will check your e-mail only once a day; stay conscious throughout the day and implement your new schedule.
5. Use the new quality consistently over a period of time till it becomes your new habit. Now you are on your way to achieve your goals.
Some habits are harder to eliminate than others. For example, all addictions are habits but because they change the chemistry of the brain it is hard to eliminate them – outside help might be needed for this. Just remember that nothing is impossible: if at some point you learned to do something you can always unlearn it and cultivate something new that is positive and moves you forward in life.

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