Habits are important as our life today is essentially the sum of those habits.

How in shape or out of shape you are? How happy or unhappy you are? How successful or unsuccessful you are? All a result of your habits. Good habits serve to create routine, efficiency and order. Bad habits have the opposite effect and can lock us into negative or rigid patterns of behaviour.

But what if you want to improve? What if you want to form new better habits?

Yes, it’s HARD to form new good habits and many of us wonder how we can have the best of intentions to become better, and yet often see so little progress. After all, we know how to get in shape, we know how to eat healthy, and we know how to exercise, and yet we’re no closer than we were six months ago towards our goals.

What’s going on here?

Well, mostly we tend to bite off more than we can chew, go too hard too soon, and then get overwhelmed too quickly. Does this sound familiar?

* I’m going to eat 100% perfect AND
* I’m going to walk 5 miles a day AND
* I’m going to workout at the gym three times a week.

Unfortunately if you are somebody that eats a typically poor diet, never walks far, and hasn’t set foot in a gym for years, doing all of these things at once is almost a surefire way to succeed at precisely NONE of them.

This is what happens: after an exciting week where things go perfectly, you realize you don’t have time to walk five miles a day or eat perfectly…and if you don’t have time to do those things, then what’s the point right?

It’s already a failure and a lost cause!
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So how CAN we make it happen?

Here’s the big secret:

Good Habits: Dream Big, But Start Small

Pick ONE habit, make it absolutely tiny, and focus on that habit for a period of 21 days to a month.

For example – Want to start exercising? Awesome. For that first week, aim for just five minutes per day. Just five minutes!

Want to start cooking your own meals? Don’t try to cook ALL of your own meals yet. Just aim for one meal per day or one meal per week.

Keep your goals SMALL and simple. The smaller and simpler they are, the more impossible it is to say no and the more likely you are to keep them.

To succeed a tiny habit has to be: A behavior you do at least once a day, takes you less than 30 seconds to do, requires little effort and is relevant to the full behavior.

So, instead of thinking of your life goals, as big, audacious things that you can only achieve when the time is right or when you have better resources… but instead as tiny, daily behaviors that are repeated until success happens.

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