Success Comes from Self Motivational Habits

Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by admin in self motivational

In every part of our life we have habits, they may not be self motivational habits but we have lots of them. Your overall health is impacted by your eating habits and your exercise habits. Is it all too convenient to reach for fast food and quicker to take the elevator than the stairs? There are distinctly bad habits that even more negatively impact on our health like a habit of smoking or other substance abuse. Not all habits are negative but we have them hardwired into our brain. Our social habits determine the quality of our relationships. We have cleanliness habits which determine the level of personal hygiene and that of our home environment. Our work ethic establishes the habits we exhibit in the workplace which determines how our co-workers see us. You even have buying habits which often you are not aware of but ask the retailer who monitors your use of their loyalty card and they know your buying habits intimately if they want to be successful. And if you want to be successful you need to identify self motivational habits and monitor them.

So what are habits? A habit is an activity which we have repeated so often that it is like the groove in an old gramophone record in which we automatically operate often without thinking or even being aware. It is so hardwired it is difficult not to do it. Now if that is a self motivational habit then that will work towards your success but if a negative habit can have serious consequences on your life. People often say but it is difficult to get a positive activity like a self motivational habit to the state where it becomes so automatic. Yet the same people see no reason why some of their bad habits have so readily become ingrained and they can’t give them up eg smoking. The problem is we don’t consciously decide at any point that we are going to turn a negative activity into a bad habit. We just follow the line of least resistance and drift into it.

So what is a self motivation habit? This is an activity which we can readily see takes us on a path to achieving what we want to achieve and because it is a habit it becomes almost involuntary. We don’t have to think about it and eventually it becomes like breathing. We don’t think about how we breathe but we sure know if we didn’t have that habit we wouldn’t get anything else done! So how do we establish a self motivational habit? The answer is repetition. While it is said necessity is the mother of invention, I have heard it said (I think by Tony Robbins) that repetition is the mother of skill. It is also the mother of self motivational habits.

So if you want to lose weight and become healthier you don’t go on a diet. You change your eating habits and your exercise regime and so have a different lifestyle which becomes a set of self motivatioanal habits. So in other areas of your life you can’t latch on to the latest short term fad and hope that you will instantly achieve success. You must decide what you want and clearly define it. Then you need to decide what a self motivational person looks like who achieves the success you want. Study the habits they have and make a commitment to not just try them but do them on a consistent basis until they are hardwired in as self motivational habits.

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