The effort to aquire a habit

While reading Russell Brunson's book Traffic Secrets I've found two habits that I am looking to integrate into my daily life (this being one of them, blogging). So I added them to the habit app I'm using, HabitShare. I have found that it is extremely easy to develop bad habits, but hard to break them. Likewise, it is harder to develop good habits and easier to break them.

In my coaching one of the first habits I ask my clients to acquire is to read from a specific book (Financial Fitness by Brady and Woodward) and listen to two MP3 or CDs from a specific list of audios every day. I don't want to be a hypocrite, so I use HabitShare to ensure I am keeping up with the habit myself.

Now there are many more habits I could add to this list (and if you looked in my habits archive, you'd see many). For me the real secret in developing a habit is to focus on one or two habits at a time. It also helps to be held accountable by someone you respect. As you might be able to see in the image, I have at least one friend who can view my habit progress. This accountability helps me get that little bit of extra energy needed knowing that someone I respect would see that I didn't follow through on my habit.

As I begin to integrate Blogging and posting to Instagram as regular habits over the next few months, I'll start to look for what is the next most important habit I should integrate into my life. And so every few months I create a habit or two to help build my progress towards my goals. This is kind of like taking success and automating it, through habits.

What is a habit that you have been putting off (flossing? drinking water?) that you know you should pick up. Start now and if it will help, I can be your HabitShare accountability partner. Just send me an email (from the email account listed in HabitShare) and I'll help keep you on track for the goals in your life.