Make Your Goals Habit
Forming good habits is not a difficult thing to do. Punctuality, broad insight into the field being worked on, and never complaining when given an assignment are examples of good habits that can be easily done. However, getting started takes a lot of effort.
Having good habits is one way to achieve a goal, for example, advancing a career. By forming good habits, your boss will indirectly see how your work is doing. These observations can be useful for your career. You could be given a raise or even a promotion.
It can also be for living a healthy life, realizing future dreams, and so on. However, as explained above. Forming good habits is not easy. You not only have to work hard to get started, but also sacrifice a lot of things.
3 Reasons Why Your New Habit Fails
Forming this habit is quite tricky and requires consistency so many also fail to form the habit. There are several reasons why the process of forming your new habit may fail.
- Goals that are not specific and realistic
The reason why your goals often fail is that they are not specific. For example, you have a goal to exercise regularly. Unfortunately, this goal is still too general because it does not have clear details. The benchmark for exercising regularly is how many times a week. How many minutes will you exercise?
On the other hand, your goals may fail because they are unrealistic. For example, you set goals for a 30-minute workout, five days a week. If you are just a beginner at exercising, it is natural to feel overwhelmed and easily tired. Therefore, the goal is less real because it does not take into account your current abilities.
- Procrastination that leads to “skipping”
The next reason why your goals always fail is often procrastinating or procrastinating doing these behaviors. This usually happens when you are busy or just not in the mood. This procrastination that eventually becomes absent can make people end up giving up on continuing. This is because of the premise that they have “failed” so they are pessimistic to continue the behavior again.
- Focus on eliminating bad habits
Research shows that the goal of eliminating bad habits tends to be less effective than the goal of building good habits. This is because the goal of eliminating bad habits is considered less clear and does not solve the root of the problem.
For example, the habit of biting nails before a presentation is a coping with feelings of anxiety. Well, if you intend to get rid of your bad habit of biting your nails, you need to replace it with other, more positive habits to deal with unclear anxiety.
Tips for forming good habits to achieve
Building a habit is not easy because it takes time, energy, and consistency in the beginning. However, you can try by starting with a few small steps. Below, are some tips for building positive new habits.
- Take action every day
Whatever your dream is, do it every day. If your dream is to become a professional soccer player, then practice every day. If you want to be a guitarist, practice playing guitar every day. If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day. All dreams require passion and hard work.
Gradually you will get better and better at what you have been doing, and you will get closer to your dreams without even realizing it.
- Set your goal
Dreams are dreams, but to make dreams come true, you need to set realistic goals. Set goals and stick to them. It doesn’t have to be a revolutionary goal, even a small goal will help you get closer to your dreams. Let goals be the milestones you need to achieve your dreams. Once you’ve achieved a goal, set another goal until it’s met and you can start reaching for your new dream.
- Schedule time to focus
Limit time to dreams and goals. Set it aside and use it to fulfill your goals and work on your dreams. You need focus and discipline, every time you get distracted, you fall and have to start over. Practice your focus. Eliminate all distractions that are standing in your way.
- Don’t Focus on Results, Focus on Process.
Having a healthy body is a results-oriented approach. Then what is the process? That’s exercise. Getting 1 million followers on social media is a results-oriented approach, and the process is creating quality content every day.
Mostly, the results are not in our hands. It is how we start and end a job that is in our control. So, you should focus on the process, not the result. Define steps you can take toward a goal, then focus on staying consistent with those steps.
- Review your strategy and progress
Evaluate your strategy and progress towards your goals. Tracking success and how you achieved it is valuable information to know what is working well and what is not. You will learn from your mistakes and it will help you in growing. Evaluation is the method you need so you know if you are on the right track or not.
Those are some tips that you can do in forming new habits. Start today and repeat tomorrow. Do it and don’t give up easily. Every good habit that you do to the maximum will produce maximum results as well.
