Success is a Habit

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4 years ago

A lot of us want to succeed in our business. Who doesn’t?

What I learned for the past 1 year doing this affiliate marketing is a success is not dependent on what platform you are in, what education you got, who is your coach, how busy you are in your day job, family, community or church, how smart you are, when you started,… you get the point.

External factors will not determine whether you will succeed or not. It’s all on you.

Sure, things will affect how fast or easy you will achieve success, but at the end of the day, it is up to you whether you will achieve it or not.

What is the best way to achieve success?

By making it a habit!

Creating a habit of success is amazing because you will eventually live a success mindset in auto-pilot. That is how habits work. You create it then you let it do the job without you thinking about it.

Of course, habit is neither good or bad. Maybe some of you do productive things every day without noticing it while at the same time you find yourself gaining weight every month because you have a habit of munching on sweets.

The good news is habit can be created and be broken. And no! It is not true that for it to make it a habit, you need to do the same thing for 40 days.

3 Thing You Need to Do to Build a Habit

Cue
Action
Reward

Cue

Cue is your signal to do something. It could be visual, touch, smell, or anything. It doesn’t matter. As long as something will signal you to do something, then that is good enough.

Action

Well, the action is what you need to do to accomplish a task. For us bloggers, that will be either learning or writing.

Action should immediately follow after the cue is seen.

Reward

After you do your task, it is important to reward yourself!

It could be visually ticking off your to-do list. Placing a sticker on the day you are productive. Having yourself sweets after you finish your stuff. You get the point.

You know yourself. Reward yourself with something when you accomplish something no matter how small or big it is.

Example of Cue-Action-Reward

Here is how I am applying this for myself.

Cue: Every morning, at the same time, in the same place, I go and open my computer and play a specific music playlist. This visual and hearing cues would signal my brain that there is a work that needs to be done.

As soon as I see the cues, my mind will immediately get into work mode even if I am lazy to do anything for the day.

Action: The next thing that I do after seeing and hearing my cues is I immediately create a content or do digital marketing.

I try to be consistent on what I am doing every morning so most of my brainpower goes to creating content and not on deciding what to do.

i.e.

Every morning of Saturday, Monday and Tuesday I create new content.

Every Wednesday and Thursday I create and schedule social media post

And Every Friday I schedule paid ads

Reward: After completing my tasks, I simply cross-out items in my to do list and quietly praise myself. This may be a simple reward but this keeps me happy and motivated - a very important part in creating a habit.

In Conclusion

So there you have it. Creating a habit of success.

Again the benefits of creating a success habit are

You use less or no brain power on forcing yourself to be productive. You can now channel that extra brain power in creating a new content.
Your mind and body will work even if you are lazy. Since it is a habit, you will find yourself doing it without thinking.
Like any other good habit, it will improve your lifestyle

Remember

To build a habit you need to do 3 things:

CUE - ACTION - REWARD

You need to do all of them and make sure to do them in order.

BONUS

Similarly, if you want to break a habit, think about your bad habit and identify its cue, action, and reward then simply remove one of the 3 and ta-da you will break the bad habit.

Hope this short post will help you!

Regards,

John Greg of WealthBuilderTips