The ultimate guide to making new habits stick.
According to habit research, if you miss a day, you don’t default back to day zero.
But you don’t lose progress by missing a day. You can still be successful in making new habits stick. You can bs successful in seeing a change through if you miss a day or two days or a week. Screwing up doesn’t impact your progress or your ability to make habit stick in your life.
WHAT THE HELL EFFECT says that you’re not behind. The problem is that in our mindset we have this what the hell effect. You think ohh one mistake and you lose your focus and motivation.
FAILING IS NOT A BIG DEAL, YOU CAN RECOVER.
Here’s a tool guide to make you stick with your new habits:
1. MAKE IT VISIBLE
Instead of rearranging your mind and mental to-do list. Rearrange your house and environment to support you in remembering your goals and achieving your habits. According to the research from Harvard Business School, when we make decisions for our future selves, we make better decisions. So, make it visible Infront of you for the future you. You can reduce decision fatigue the very next day.
You can Post to-do list on your mirror, lay down your exercise clothes on the floor a nigh before, place your wattle bottle and journal near your coffee machine
So, every single smartphone has an alarm and when you set the time on alarm, it has a label. Right now, it’s alarm but you can change the label to help you remember anything. Research has found that twice as many people who received quit smoking messages, quit smoking over a six-month period. These little systems like setting your alarm in phone whether you’re reminding yourself to take the vitamins that you want to be taking or you’re reminding yourself to get out of a run or you’re reminding yourself to spent 30 minutes on a project that you wanted to get done. They are going to make you, based on research, twice as successful.
2. REMOVE TEMPTATION AWAY FROM YOUR SIGHT
If you don’t want to drink, put the alcohol away. If you want to get up early or need better sleep, get your phone out of the bedroom. Make it a tiny bit more inconvenient to get that thing. What you want to do, make it Infront of you and what you want to remove from your life, make it away from your sight to make it inconvenient for you to reach that. Your ability to take that thing will take time and you’ll for sure avoid that thing.
3. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS
Tracking your progress is the best way to know about whether you are going in the right direction or not. it can be done on paper or on apps. You can download an app to get checked the list or have a paper Infront of you to tick the boxes. It’s like maintain streaks and chain of progress. Create a system of tracking that’s fun and get clear about your why and if you screw up one days, Try to make it tomorrow.
4. CREATE A PLAN
You’re going to more likely to succeed at behavior change if you make specific plans to implement it. Planning ahead and getting it out of your head, creating a plan out in the real world on a paper will help you gain more hold to your habits.
FAILING TO PLAN IS PLANNING TO FAIL.
IF THEN PLANNING, is a way to keep yourself on task by creating a backup plan if your current plan doesn’t work and it boost your ability to stick to the goals.
5. DO IT IN THE MORNING.
Waking up early and utilizing the first four hours will help you do better in the day. Your will power, speed of processing and ability to focus are the highest in the morning.
6. SUPER-SIZE IT.
Super-size your habits with the people around you. You can do it with a friend, your sister, your partner, or a bunch of people outside you. The encouragement from environment will help you boost up your confidence and ability to stick. Make yourself accountable to them and you’ll see the difference.
CHALLENGE YOURSELF TO DO IT AND MAKE THE FUTURE YOU PROUD.