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A Lifetime of Riches - Is it as Simple as a Few Habits?
Make a new reward
Try to make a new reward that is similar to the old reward.
If it is a coffee habit, the reward is a warm beverage and an excuse to sit still and reflect. For that reason, a substitute like herbal tea would work.
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Forming good habits
Habits are little chunks of auto-pilot behavior that get burned permanently into your mind. Once you develop a habit, you can never really delete it.
Habits start with a trigger, which sets off your automatic behavior. They end at a pleasant reward that reinforces your habit.
Find the trigger point of your habit
Describe your own behavior in detail, and search for clues you might have missed before. Find your trigger.
If you have a habit of making coffee, it might be triggered by entering the kitchen. Some people eat in response to boredom or buy stuff in response to their desires.
Trick yourself
Take an existing cue you have, but trick yourself into triggering a different behavior.
If you want to quit coffee, you could give away the coffee machine and put a box of tea or a glass of water on the countertop.
Make a new reward
Try to make a new reward that is similar to the old reward.
If it is a coffee habit, the reward is a warm beverage and an excuse to sit still and reflect. For that reason, a substitute like herbal tea would work.
Get your foot in the door
Use Keystone Habits to trigger other changes. It could be just "waking up".
You know you have to wake up each day. Set a note for yourself that you'll notice when you wake up and compel yourself to take a step in the right direction. (Do one pushup before breakfast, for example.)
Reinforce habits
Reinforce habits with belief and community.
When we tell stories of our own lives of making the desired change, it creates belief. When others chime in, it shows that achieving changes is possible for everyone.
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Discipline
Self-made millionaires choose moderation over extremes. They often buy used cars, don't live in the most expensive houses and don't try to time the investment market.
Hard Work
A defining characteristic of many millionaires are their willingness to work hard and stick it out in high-paying careers until they are financially independent.
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3 Financial Basics
- Create a Financial Calendar: prevent yourself from forgetting quarterly tax payments and to get credit reports.
- Check Your Interest Rate: Pay off loans, open saving accou...
Budgeting Like a Pro
- Consider an All-Cash Diet, as limiting yourself to physical currency combats overspending.
- Set aside 1 minute a day to check on your financial transactions, to identify problems, track goal progress and set your spending tone.
- Allocate at least 20% of your income to financial priorities like emergency funds, debts and retirement fund.
- Budget about 30% of your income for nonbasic spendings, like entertainment. Abiding by the 30% rule, you can save and splurge at the same time.
How to Get Money Motivated
- Draft a Financial Vision Board, it motivates and helps you to stay on track with your financial goals.
- Set specific financial goals stating the reason, the way, numbers and dates.
- Adopt a spending mantra, a phrase that serves as a rule of thumb for how you spend.
- Love yourself. Taking control of your finances is part of that.
- Make bite-size money goals. Make the bigger ones but also small step goals to get there.
- Don’t be a financial fatalist, and switch to more positive mantras.
- Get your finances and body in shape. The discipline associated with regular exercising translates to managing your money well.
- Appreciate what you have now, instead of being a consumerist.
- Get a Money Buddy. Studies indicate people pick up good habits from friends with similar traits.
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The 'tiny habits' method
You can hack your motivation and make changes that last by using the Tiny Habits method.
It works by breaking down big changes into tiny actions, find where they fit naturally into your li...
Repetition and habits
Habits can form very quickly. For instance, give someone a new phone, and their emotional response to using the device will wire in a habit very quickly. There is no need for repetition.
New habits then form as long as people have a strong positive emotion connected to the new behavior.
Designing for habit formation
Emotions create habits, not repetition. If you are designing a new habit, you are really designing for emotions.
Intentionally create feelings of success to wire in the habits that you actually want in your life.
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