Skip to main content

5 Steps to Building a New Routine


There's a force that follows the work we do and the effort we make towards changing our habits. This force comes after we have made an effort at something or a task and takes over the work for a while. But unless we continue at what we're doing, the force slows down and finally stops.

It's like starting up a new business. At first, we exert so much energy into getting it up and running. But at a point, if we make no move, it starts to slow down it's pace of growth. However, if we keep making efforts, it goes on thriving and these efforts we make soon becomes a routine for us.

Building a routine is necessary if we are to achieve any goal in life. Routines are actions we take on a daily basis towards the achievement of our goal. For example, if you want to get your eating under control and lose weight, you have to build new routines that will help you achieve your goal. It can be making a note of all that goes into your mouth throughout the day. It is advisable to choose one habit at a time and work on it until you achieve success, then you can chose another until all are addressed.

Here are the 5 steps that will help as you decide to build your new routine;
- Think about the goal you want to achieve and write down the choices you think will help you achieve your goal. This choices are to be made based on your core values and beliefs to be sure they are things that you can do.

- Once your choice has been made, put them to work through adopting new behaviors that are in line with your choices. Now adopting new behaviors can prove to be difficult but it takes disciple to pull them off. Discipline remember is doing what you have to do whether you feel like it or not, Brian Tracy.

- Remember habits are behaviors and actions we have taken repeatedly over time that they have become our way of life. For example, going to school or work, brushing our teeth and so on. Repeat these choices you have made over a long period of time, say three weeks, till it becomes a habit.

- Let this choices blend into your daily activities and discipline. This way it's easier for you to adhere to them and carry them out conveniently.

- Be consistent with following through with your choices. Before you know it, you are on your way to accomplishing your goals.

Following this steps ignites the speed and motion we talked about earlier. If we're to be successful in what we do, we have to build a routine around it. This helps us to ease the stress associated with making changes and also makes our actions more automatic.

Create a routine around your goal to support the objectives you set up to enable you achieve success Once you create a routine, consider it a concrete wall and just go ahead and do it whether you feel like it or not. Do not argue about it but start over when you're interrupted.


If you enjoyed this post, kindly share, like and comment. Thank youuu!

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

6 Habits of Emotionally Strong Leaders

When you resort to pleasing people, you realize that striving for popularity leaves you susceptible to making bad decisions and a compromised moral and standards. Most times, we believe that people with high IQ achieve better success in life. Don't get me wrong, its actually great to be smart. But when you take a closer look at high-achieving people, you will observe that emotional intelligence is really the driving force behind their performance. Here are a few habits emotionally strong people possess; 1)    They don't waste time feeling sorry for themselves:   Emotionally strong people can complain, rant and indulge in self-pity. But this doesn't last more than its supposed to. According to John Maxwell, the period of self-pity should not exceed 24 hours, after which you move on with your life. They also avoid the company of those who spend time complaining. This is because complaints are contagious. So when you feel compelled to self-pity, subject yourself to tou...
Post a Comment
Read more

How to Increase Your Job Satisfaction

You'd be wondering why this topic?, why do I have to be the best at a job I already don't like?, why not just quit the moment I dislike it?. These questions are not out of line. The reason is that a survey carried out few years back has disclosed that more than half of employees don't like their jobs. However since that's what we have to do at the moment, my guess is that we have to be our best in it. So I'd want to discuss that period between when we get a job we'll have full satisfaction in and while we are doing what we currently do.  It is really difficult putting up with dissatisfaction and so it is very easy to detect when a person don't like their job anymore. They begin to do it haphazardly, shift it to other people, exert their frustration and anger with the job on innocent coworkers, make excuses for not getting things done and seize to take responsibility for any error coming from their work among other things. However, I've been a...
Post a Comment
Read more

Shut Complacency Out of your Life

Have you ever been totally content with the status quo, lacking the desire and hunger to do more than what is required to just get through? When you do not go beyond a certain expectation but just want to settle, that's when complacency sets in.  Complacency is all around us and can exists in any area of our life especially when we give it the opportunity. It is the reason why it seems difficult to win honors in a field twice in a row and why its difficult for some persons to remain at the top of the mountain they've worked so hard to build and climb. It usually happens after some successes, when you begin to feel comfortable and confident enough to stop working harder. Complacency is a state of mind where an individual gets too comfortable with his/her current state to even venture into a new project or take up new responsibilities.  It is the absence of an urge in you to aim for more, dream bigger and refuse to settle for status quo. It is that point where we no ...
Post a Comment
Read more