January is the month that symbolizes new beginnings. It is the start of a new year, and the New Year's Holiday is a time to re-valuate one’s life and make resolutions for the upcoming year.
The idea of making resolutions is not a bad thing. They can be helpful. But too often the resolution of January becomes the failure of February. Resolutions do not have the force of repetition behind them. Habits, on the other hand, are much harder to break because they operate at the subconscious level of our brains. And once a habit is established it will operate far beyond January.
Habits are formed by repetition. Repeat the same behavior over a given period of time and you wind up with a habit. Initially this can be a painfully slow process, but once you put determination behind your purpose. And as you work to develop the habit the change in behavior becomes automatic. And that is our goal: to make our behavior subconscious (a habit).
1) Write your goals down.
This sounds cliché, but it's important. Thoughts are fleeting things. They come quickly and they go quickly. In the midst of distractions the thoughts that we wanted to save have evaporated from our consciousness. They were not in the mind long enough to become a memory. Pen and paper preserves your thoughts, and allows us to return to them.
2) Review your goals everyday.Keep your goals in front of you. Read your goals when you get up in the morning and when you go to bed at night. The easiest way to fail to achieve something is to let it be forgotten. Keep your goals in your mind all the time. Put reminders everywhere. Evaluate your progress. If something is not working change it. Make your goals your reason for living. Make the achievement of your goals a matter of survival.
3) Do something every day to move you closer to your goals. A goal is no good without a plan to achieve it. That is what separates a resolution from a purpose. A purpose must have a plan. Every journey has a destination. You must get in a habit of making plans
4) Build a success attitude. No goal has ever been achieved with a “can’t do” attitude. The way to achieve a goal is to believe that it can be done. Work to develop the habit of being positive. All achievement is based on faith. Faith is the belief in something that has not yet happened. You cannot have faith in your goals if you reject the role that faith plays in achieving those goals. You can only have one thought in your mind at a time. Positive and negative cannot live in the same house. Make positive emotions a permanent houseguest and evict the other guy. Use the positive emotions of love, faith, and gratitude to chase the negative feelings away. This is not an option. IT IS AN ABSOLUTE NECESSITY!
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