Smaller Habits, Bigger Results
Steven Guise, the best-selling author of the book, 'Mini Habits' grew up developing bad habits. When he wanted to change, he couldn't. Since then, he has researched and experimented to find the most effective strategies to change one's behavior for the better.
He has successfully created a niche for himself as he shares his passion for 'habits.'
These Small Habits will deliver Big Results over time.
Having Trouble Meeting Goals
Maybe it is time you set mini SMART goals. (Learn how to set SMART goals here)
''Setting mini goals is the best way to drop the perceived difficulty in any project. Once you start and are free to continue, your perceived difficulty will be much lower due to the psychological impact of having already started. Just like in physics, the greatest inertia comes before the start of motion. Once you're in Motion, everything gets easier.''
Feel Like A Failure
When we set a big and audacious goal, we need the will power to achieve them. If our current paradigm are not be aligned, we will end up giving excuses and fail to achieve those goals. We end up feeling like a failure.
This is one big reason people stop making new year resolutions. They failed so many times it makes them depressed.
We need a paradigm shift. (Do you need a Paradigm Shift?)
''With mini habits, will power is preserved as much as possible, every step you take feels like success, and going beyond your goal feels even better than that. It’s a system that makes you feel like a winner, because people who feel like winners act like winners.''
Small But Efficient
Taking small steps efficiently is like the story of the hare and the tortoise. You will reach the destination over time.
We are all familiar with stories of super athletes making millions of dollars every year going bankrupt. In the book, 'The Millionaire Next Door,' Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko reveal how people working normal relatively low paying jobs have become millionaires through smart money management
''Mini habits are so small and will power efficient, that you can have multiple habits at once. Even busy and overwhelmed people can succeed with multiple mini habits. Look at mini habits as your day's foundation—these are things you MUST get done, but they only take a few minutes total to do. After that, you can do anything you want.''
Start Building Small Habits
Building a habit is like riding a bike up a hill that levels out, peaks and goes down. In the beginning, you have to push with all the force your legs can muster. It gets progressively easier after that but you must keep pedaling until you reach the top or you will go backwards and lose your progress.
'Life's most powerful tool is consistency, because that's the only way for behaviors to become habits, and when a non-habit becomes habit, it literally means that you've gone from fighting against your brain to joining forces with it.''
''A habit is the strongest behavioral foundation a human can have.''
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As an individual who seems to create habits too quickly (often the bad ones) I like the familiarity the routine of habits and can slip into them easily, (for example I have seen one particular musical at the very least over 50 times-but like a child, routine is comforting, the familiarity from the moment it starts makes me feel good) I find the idea of creating small habits brilliant solution to my ever distant big audacious goals a mindset change and one I am liking.
Oh the simplicity Stanley.... good post my friend... 👍🤗
Thanks, we need to keep it simple so we can successfully repeat it.
Writing a 6 blogs in one sitting for 6 hours once a week
OR
Writing one blog a day for 1 hour a day.
Both get you 6 blogs a week. Which is easier to repeat?
During a meditation course by Deepak Chopra I came to the realisation that small bad habits were hindering my progress and the reason for all the bad decisions I have made.
Now I am consciously seeking those small bad habits and attempt to replace them with new small ones. Hopefully, the manifestation will be a real, evergreen successful business.
In my opinion, realization has got nothing to do with new year's resolutions and is more valuable than any new year resolution, because it is not forced and comes with a powerful AHAA moment.
All the best with your business my friend.
Louis Munro
Tjank you for this post. I believe in smaller habits as this approach os working for me. Thank you.
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Great post will check it out and keep it.
In sales we were given the farmers pump as a sample of doing something everyday.
You can pump it up and down but it's very hard if not impossible to get water from the well but if you put a little water in the pump it will start to produce water and now with just one finger you can push down on the handle of the pump and the water will come out very easy 😎👌
So, we need to do a little something everyday and in the end it should be easy to make the money not water come !
Yes, John. I heard that before. Is that where the phrase, "priming the pump" comes from?
Probably😜👌