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How to overcome unwanted thoughts
How to manage intrusive thoughts
How to change your attitude towards intrusive thoughts
Schedule Your Habits
Schedule your habits by giving them a specific space in your daily waking hours. You can put it in your calendar, or link it to your current behavior patterns.
Create a system around your existing life to incorporate the new habit.
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Failure Is Inevitable
Most of us fail in our endeavors at some point in our lives, whether it's a New Year's resolution or a health goal you are working on. These setbacks make us human, not a failure.
Our willpower and motivation are not what makes us succeed, but our dusting ourselves up and getting back in...
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Care For Your Goals
If the habits that you are trying to inculcate in you are dear to you, you won't need much motivation or willpower.
Setting goals related to what we care for provides us with the best use of our limited energy and it gives us a bigger probability to succeed.
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Something is Better Than Nothing
Less than perfect is still beneficial. Something is better than nothing.
90 % of our results will hinge on us sticking to the fundamentals.
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Stick to Your Schedule
Even doing something small towards your goal can help build a daily routine.
Example: Instead of skipping the morning jog entirely due to lack of time, one can jog for a few minutes.
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Design Your Surroundings
We normally think we need more motivation and willpower to succeed. But motivation is inconsistent and fickle, and you cannot rely on it daily. You would need to hack your environment, and design the surroundings around you to facilitate progress towards the goals.
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What You Can Control
Focusing on what we have, what the positive side is, and what opportunity arises out of the current situation, is the answer to sticking with our goals.
Instead of excuses, one can find ways to progress, maybe taking a different approach.
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A Familiar Face
Having a person overlooking you and noting your progress, like a friend, teammate or coach can work wonders on your daily motivation.
Having a familiar face around you can be reason enough to show up daily.
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“Stack” Your Habits
The best way to turn a behavior into a habit is to use a trigger to remind yourself to do it. Your trigger needs to be something you always do anyway. Anything you already do without thinking works.
As you build new habits, you create new triggers for yourself and stack a new habit onto it....
Effectively Tracking Habits
- You can use tracking apps, sheets or a journal to track your behavior.
- Decide which habits you want to track.
- Decide on a timeframe for tracking.
- Set a target for how many times you want to successfully follow each habit in your chosen timeframe.
- Decide on whi...
14. Adopting Healthy Financial Habits
It takes about 66 days for a new behavior to become an automatic habit.
Stick to a productive daily routine to build healthy financial habits.
When you build healthy financial habits, you will struggle less in life.
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