How to Build Good Habits: Tips and Tricks

How To Build Good Habits and Tips to Make Them Stick

If you are looking to know how to build good habits and tips to make them stick you are in the right place.

Most of us, if we are honest, can look at different areas of our life and see areas that could be improved and areas that need attention.

And now that we are approaching New Year there will be a lot of people who will be making resolutions, but sadly the vast majority of them will fail.

In fact, according to Forbes, only 8% of people will succeed with a New Year’s resolution, so I thought I would look into why this is and, more importantly, how can we succeed with our goals and resolutions.

I am also going to show some tips and tricks that can help us achieve what we want in life.

I also want to say that this advice is for any time of the year where we want to achieve something or change a habit.

See Yourself in The New Habit

One of the most critical requirements for anyone wanting to change a habit or learn something new is to have a vision and know what it is we want to achieve.

We need to keep our thoughts on where we are going and what we want in life and not on what we don’t want.

As an example, people who are dependent on alcohol will often have a belief that a life without drinking would be a life not worth living.

They simply cannot imagine or see themselves being happy and contented without being able to have a drink.

And this belief is going to stop this person from trying to become healthier and more energetic because this person will not have the desire or motivation to change the habit if they feel it will cause pain or suffering.

This is why it is crucial that a person sees themselves living the new habit and also that they see all the benefits they will acquire once the new habit is formed.

For someone who wants to lose weight they can take some time each day to consider the benefits they will gain such as more energy, feeling more confident, better health, higher sex drive, etc, etc.

If they can focus on all these benefits the desire to go towards this will become strong, for what we focus on regularly will be where our mind will gravitate toward.

As Jim Rohn used to say when the reason we want something becomes strong the how becomes easy.

For instance, can you see yourself in the future and how you would be if you were to boost testosterone levels to a very high level?

Can you see how your body posture is, how you would feel confident and poised in any situation, can you see how your body will look when the anabolic hormones have burnt fat and packed on muscle?

If you need inspiration maybe you can look at an athlete who has trained for an event or a boxer who has had a long training camp before a fight and observe the total confidence and strength that comes from someone who is the best they can be.

Start one Step at a Time

One of the reasons that we don’t succeed with our intentions to develop a new habit is because we sometimes want to change too many habits and also spread ourselves into too many areas and as the saying goes  “If you chase two rabbits you will not catch either one”

A really great book that I highly recommend that discusses this topic is the book “The One Thing by Gary Keller”.

This book starts out right from the start with the question of “what’s the one thing that you could do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”

This question helps to clarify what things and habits will lead to the most success whether that is in our personal life, business life or our health.

Many people think that they have to concentrate on many areas to find success but in Gary Keller’s book he describes how actually, it’s the people who focus on a few areas and eliminate distractions who achieve the most in life.

Our energy is limited and if we want to increase our chances of successfully building a good habit we have to find the most important areas we need to work on and also the areas that will bring us the best results.

And another thing to consider is that some habits and areas that we work on will improve other areas of our life automatically without any effort.

For instance, this whole website is about how to naturally boost testosterone and I know from experience that when this area is worked on it will have a massive positive impact on one’s personal life and business life without any effort at all.

This is because boosting testosterone will make someone more confident, more energized and more motivated to achieve in other areas of life.

A crucial point to remember is that when building new habits, concentrate your efforts on what you can do right now in any small way to make some progress in the direction you want.

Yes, we want to have a vision of what we want to be in the future and how this will benefit us but we also need to have some small goals that we can do right now in the present that help us to move forward and make the end goal more tangible.

Having small goals that we can achieve helps us to move in the direction we want and it also creates momentum.

The thought “I need to go the gym all this year” can feel overwhelming but the thought “I am going to go to the gym today” makes it a lot easier for us to succeed

Interestingly we use this method in building and keeping a bad habit. Most people do not say to themselves “I am going to drink lot of alcohol for the rest of my life” instead they say “one drink won’t hurt me”, having this will be fine”

So maybe you can start to make a small change and stick with it for some time to observe the results.

Maybe you need to look at adding some foods to your diet that can boost testosterone, maybe it could be losing fat and lowering estrogen in your body, maybe it could be doing 3 weight sessions each week for 2 months to really see and feel an increase in testosterone.

The main thing is to do something and to stick to it for a period of time.

Magnify Small Progress

As discussed earlier in this article, we humans need goals and we need to see what the benefits will be when we achieve them. We then will have the desire to work towards them. 

However, remember that we need to know that these goals are achieved by steady efforts. On this journey, it is very helpful to make much of how we are progressing and to be happy for any progress we have made.

This makes a lot of sense if we want to keep developing a good habit for the long term.

If someone is building a house and they keep looking at what has not been finished they will become frustrated and exhausted but if they can concentrate on what has also been done they will have more energy and enthusiasm to continue.

This ability to be happy that we are making progress is also useful because it helps someone to focus on the desired outcome and makes it more realistic that it will be achieved.

Most people can remember someone who encouraged them at school or in a sport and how this act helped them to believe that things were possible.

This is why it is good to see and recognise that we are doing good and can go even further in the direction we are heading.

Conclusion

These are some thoughts on how to build good habits and also how they can become strong. I also believe that boosting testosterone will give someone a huge amount of fuel to achieve whatever goals they want to.

Research is also now saying that it takes around two months to create a new habit and not 30 days so maybe it’s now time to choose a habit and give 2 months of steady effort.

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