4. Create habits surrounding your goals
Goal-setting works best when you have habits surrounding your goal. Your habits are directly related to the rate of depletion of your motivation levels.
So, if you’re not habitual about doing things that are needed for achieving your goals, your motivation levels will deplete more quickly.
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Why habits work better than goals
- Goals rely on things not always under our control like health and emotional stability. Habits are more automated & free up our brain for other things.
- Goals rely on willpower and self-discipline. Once created, habits don't depend on motivation.
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.
Difference between Habits and Goals
- Goal is an end-point. Habit is a daily persistent action.
They each require different forms of action, like being fluent in a new language in six months is a goal, but practicing 30 minutes each day is a habit.
- Habits influence our automatic b...
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