These 4 keys can help you create success habits and this, in turn, can make you the most successful version of yourself.
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What Makes Successful People Successful?
Let us be real for a moment. We would all love to be able to walk to a local store and pick up a bottle of success, wouldn’t we? But let’s look past that particular fantasy and discover some of the most basic, simple reasons why people do become successful. IE, the things that set them apart from the rest.
Can you think of someone you personally know who is successful? If you can picture them in your mind’s eye, all the better. Now ask yourself this question: does this person have a successful routine or a set of habits that makes them successful? We would be shocked if they didn’t have either, or both.
The Difference Between Success and Average
Sometimes, the only difference between being successful and being average is your habits. Successful habits could be simple things like getting up earlier, being better prepared, or managing your time more effectively.
How to Start Building Those Success Habits with the 4 Keys
So how do we go about building success habits into our lives? These are our 4 key tips to help you create some.
4 Keys to Creating Success Habits
1: Identify
Find the main areas in your life that need changing and the poor habits that they currently involve. This could take you a few minutes or several hours, depending on how stuck you feel, how poor your existing habits are, and numerous other factors. Write down four new habits that you would need to form to change the old ones. It’s important that you don’t become overwhelmed right now, so don’t try to figure out how you’re going to form these new habits just yet.
2. Pick
Many (if not most) people sabotage themselves by trying to change everything at once. Instead of doing that, pick one major and one minor habit that you want to form. For the next 30-90 days, you will concentrate on creating only these.
3. Start Small
Now that you’ve identified and begun to form these two new habits, create a daily or weekly routine that’s easy to follow. For example, do you want to wake up an hour earlier so you can get more important stuff done? Rather than setting your alarm an hour earlier from the outset, start by getting up just 5 minutes earlier every morning. When you’ve found that easy to achieve, increase it by another 5 minutes, then another, until you finally reach the extra hour point. You may find it takes just a couple of weeks, or it could take three months. It doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things.
All that matters is that you achieve your overall goal of getting up an hour earlier. Once you’ve done that, you’ve set a success habit. Give yourself a pat on the back!
4. Repeat
Yes, it really is that simple. Once you’ve created your first new habits, move on to the next two that you want to create. Before you know it, you’ll have created a whole new set of success habits. If it only takes you 60 days to create 2 new habits, by the end of your first year, you’ll have 12 new success habits under your belt. That’s a massive achievement.
And Finally
Just remember the (rather silly but still apt) old saying: the best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. Take it slow, make it deliberate, and find a way to measure and then celebrate your success.
One book that could really help you with setting up success habits is this book, Atomic Habits, by James Clear.
Highly recommended by Gill.