HABITS, SUCCESS AND THE NEW YEAR RESOLUTION 2022 – Part 1

THE NEW YEAR RESOLUTION

By developing and practicing good habits each day, you affirm that you do have control over the very core of your life in the midst of the chaos. Stephen Guise, Elastic Habits

NEW YEAR RESOLUTION is made to break the habits which encourage resistance to achievements by pulling back consistently in the comfort zones. The core, the base, the center to which the NEW YEAR RESOLUTION revolves is HABITS. Habits make or break dreams. Habits pave the path to the castle which others call Impossible. Habits take away the friction, the inertia, which prevents one to Act.

Discover the surprising power of small habits. Starting with small routine, taking little time out to work on little things. Even though improvements will be minor, but it will cultivate a sense of control over your life.

HABIT FORMATION

The defining of self, a vision of you for you is essential in forming habits that ensures success in all walks of life. Facing trouble in waking up early, the very first step is to start seeing yourself as an early bird. Tap and block 7 am or 8 am, any time much earlier than usual, make it a boundary, a limit beyond which sleeping becomes hard. Aim to join 5 AM club by assigning it an elite category status.

The potential that we think we have, based on our previous endevours or habits formed, is far far below than the potential we really have, once the quality of action improves with much focused habits.

Attributing great values to the desired objective, with steps taken in form of habits, with gradual movement to the goal, and its only going to yield surprises.

As the significance of building habits is associated with accomplishing goals, breaking of habits becomes equally important.

Smoking kills

As a chain smoker, every moment is spent in negotiating the timings for the next cigarette. The vision of a smoker, to see himself as a macho man, as shown in old movies stops him from quitting. Once he connects smoking to roadside frivolous characters, the charm dissipates. This sharp turn around of how he saw the smokers play a vital role in quitting,

Break any destructive habit by image reversal technique. Assign things which you don’t like, means you associate deplorable characteristics that are in sharp contrast to your vision. The way you see things, the thought process which surrounds the object,projects success or failure.

Ideas that matter most and connecting them in a way that is highly actionable, says James Clear in his book Atomic habits. Association of rewards and punishments impacts on the way people behave. Consider, an unwanted break in practice, the punishment should be such that encourage or inculcates on to become more focused and determined. Writing affirmations, aligning with people who have done the task successfully may bring more enthusiasm in the activity execution.

A right reward becomes an essential tool to speed up the activity. A reward can be like upgrading your level or receiving a letter of appreciation from yourself or buying yourself something which adds intensity to the routine activity.

Looking for tiny margin of improvement in everything you do -To acquire consistency, human brain continuously looks for the benefits it is extracting from the activity. The accumulation of these small results marks the considerable progress and growth in the desired area.

A summary of points seen till now –

1 -defining of self image, a vision of you for you
2 – Attributing great values to the desired objective
3 – Associating Rewards and Punishment to keep control on self behavior
4 -Looking for small improvement in every action executed compared to the previous action.