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How To Create New Habits Of Success

It is very important to stay motivated in order to reach your goals, but at the same time it is absolutely normal to lower your guard once in a while, to lose sight of your goal, to let yourself deviate from your route. Sometimes you will feel discouraged when things don’t go the way you expected. These behaviors and feelings are very human. But you have to get back on track, motivate yourself and make an effort to stay focused on your goal, if you want to reach it.

The easiest way to make your dream into reality and to stay focused is to act in a way that automatically leads you to success by acquiring new habits. This will take you 30 days.

If you don’t have the desired success in your current life, it’s because you have some habits that keep you away from success. You have to develop some new habits that create success, and at the same time put an end to those habits that keep you in an undesirable state.

All your habits are created by you. This means you can also create new ones. In 30 days, you can turn any of your habits into a new pattern!

All your habits build up the same way: by repeating them. You can repeat any particular attitude several times, and thus create a new habit. All you have to do is to repeat the same activity or attitude for a minimum of 21 days (30 days is optimal) until they become your second nature: a habit. Attention: you cannot “skip” one day!

Why is it so hard to create a new habit? Because you don’t want to leave your “comfort zone.” This zone is determined by limits beyond which you no longer feel comfortable. You could compare this to a heater that you set at the temperature of your choice, a temperature that is comfortable for you.

To create a new habit, it is necessary to go beyond your limits. If you stay within your comfort zone, which harbors your old habits, then nothing will change and no new habits will be created. No new habits, no success. Everything will stay the way it has always been. Is this what you have in mind? No? Then you have to widen your comfort zone and accept to change some of your limits. Change your ideas about the way you live, and soon you will be living differently!

Your comfort zone is determined by mental pictures and beliefs you have about yourself. Change this mental movie and your subconscious will change your behavior. To adjust your comfort zone you only have to change the instructions and indicators inside your head. Once this is done, the outside behavior will follow.

Practice the new behaviors for 30 days, without skipping one single day, and they will become automatic.
Let’s say you want to get out of bed an hour earlier than usual. You want to make this your new habit. Of course in the beginning this will be painful. You will think of all the good reasons to stay in bed longer and of all the bad reasons to get out of bed zo early.
But if you persist, you will see that your body will get used to it and so do you. In the beginning it feels very uncomfortable, but after some weeks (3 weeks) this starts to feel comfortable and has become a new habit, integrated in your mind where all your habits are stocked.

So what is the new habit you want to acquire now in order to create the success you want? Is it to clean up your desk every day? Is it to answer your mails every morning? Is it to get out of bed one hour earlier to work out or to read your mails? Is it to drink 8 glasses of water a day in order to keep your body and mind fit?

What is your next new habit? Write it down on the calendar and check every day you did well. Remember : to skip one day is to start over again from scratch!

In this way you can manage to learn 12 new habits a year! Isn’t this wonderful? Success to you!

By: Ineke Van Lint

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