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Continue reading “The Power of Bright Lines: How Clear Rules Can Shape Your Habits for Success”Bright lines are clear, unambiguous rules we set for ourselves to create firm boundaries between desirable and undesirable behaviors. Develop bright line habits for willpower and self-discipline.
Continue reading “How To Make Your Best Behaviors Automatic”Automatic behaviors are simple or complex routine tasks performed while we remain unaware of the activity. These behaviors can range from activities such as driving, writing, or walking, or cooking a meal. We can use this concept of automatic behaviors to make us more consistent in doing other desired actions.
Continue reading “Motivated by Habit”When you are excited to begin a new project or to start work on a BIG goal, motivation is high. Use that energy. It’s what gets you started. But use it to build new habits that keep you moving in the right direction. That’s what keeps you going. Tap into the power of motivation and the power of habits.
Continue reading “A Future By Habit”We do not decide our future. We decide our habits and our habits decide our future. This is designing a future by habit. We can purposely design that future or we can drift, like a ship without a rudder, not really knowing where we’ll end up. It’s our choice.
Continue reading “Forming Habits For Success”The advantage of habits is that they help you do things without thinking about them. The disadvantage of habits is that they help you do things without thinking about them. This power works for you when you use it to create beneficial habits, to form habits for success.
Continue reading “Make Success A Habit”If you want to make success a habit, decide what you are going to do, then do it every day. When you know how to create helpful habits (and disrupt unhelpful ones), you can come up with your own roadmap of success.
There are limits in goal setting that can actually help you reach your goals. We call these “floors” and “ceilings”. When you are developing new habits in relation to your goal steps, these upper and lower limits, plus a special kind of limit called a “bright line” can help turn new behaviors into habits.
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Continue reading “Floors, Ceilings, and Bright Lines”
Continue reading “Payoff”Difficulties arise when we don’t know, don’t recognize, or don’t acknowledge our needs and therefore don’t actively seek to get them met in a healthy way. If you don’t meet your needs in healthy ways, they will rise up and cause you to get them met in unhealthy ways.
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Continue reading “Change One Thing”“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. That means developing great habits. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments, and that bridge must be crossed every day. Over time that daily crossing becomes a habit. And ultimately, people do not decide their future; they decide their habits and their habits decide their future.”
John C. Maxwell – The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth
Continue reading “Why Environment Trumps Willpower”Don’t waste your willpower on battles with the environment. Use your limited willpower to create better environments and better habits instead.
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