Mastering Habit Development: Building Incremental Habits That Last

1. Introduction to Mastering Habit Development: Hello and welcome. My name is Romney and thank you very much for joining me on this course in regards to habit development for beginners. Now, either an extensive experience in regards to habit development and also goal-setting. So what I wanna do is bring together my knowledge from being an executive business leader, to be a representative in Australian sport, and also recently a best-selling author of a book called The habit switch. So what I wanna do is bring together these skills and my knowledge to help you with your habit development. Habit development is critical if you want to improve many, many different elements of your life, including study, finance, health, and well-being, and also your mindset. What I wanna do is guide you through some key principles in regards to habit development and what you can easily do to implement these strategies into your daily life to become more effective and to drive better results. So let me run through the content of this course because I know you'll love it Any going to get so much out of it. And the daily habit development is gonna be something that will help you for years to come. Mastering habit development for beginners. The course is split into five separate sections. Section number one is the welcome and about the course. And just talking it through a number of the different lessons we're going to be covering. So we have full coverage of habit development. Section number two is building or framework. We're looking at the importance of supportive habit development, but also building the right habits for you and tailoring those view. Section number three, building the right foundations. So what are the five key principles of habit development? And I'll also introduce you to the formula called Dr. action. Section number four, bank action orientated. We want to look at how we build incremental habit change in section. One of the other lessons will be motivation and avoiding a short circuit. So things do go wrong. What can you do about it? And then finally, in Section five is the conclusion. And we bring it all together to be able to move forward with including habit development for the future. As you can see, it's a comprehensive course. There's plenty to learn, but I'm going to teach you all the steps to make sure you can master habit development. 2. My Background and Contents of the Course: Welcome to the course. It's great to have you here. Now, what we're gonna do is just go through some of the key areas of the course we're gonna be covering. But also my background. I want you to have an understanding of what my experiences have been. So therefore, our bainite, I've put together this course to have the greatest impact. So let's get on to some of those key things that we're gonna be covering in the mastering habit development for beginners. Course goes through five key areas and we're on section one right now. So I'm going to show you some of my background. Therefore, you have an understanding of what I can actually bring to this course, the experiences and the skills. Therefore, I can step you through those exact steps to help you master habit development, section number to building a framework. So we're gonna be looking at the importance of those supportive habit development techniques that you need to implement to make a success out of your habit development. We're also going to be looking at building the right habits for you, making sure they actually personalized to you and tailored to you. And they're not habits and developed for someone else. Section number three, building the right foundations. So what are these five key principles for habit development that we can make sure that we implement. Next area, I'm gonna be showing you the formula for Dr. action. Now this is an acronym that are developed to help people with habit development and also Goal Setting. Section number four is being action orientated. So I'm gonna be looking at the building, incremental habit changed for you and not just brushing into it. What are those small daily steps that we can implement to make a massive change? Next, we're gonna be looking at motivation and avoiding that short-circuit. If things don't go the way they should be going, how can you stop and make sure you reassess before continuing on? And number five, section number five, we will bring it all together as part of their conclusion and summarize everything that's going on. But now let's move on to my background and what I've done over the last number of years that will really help to bring the key information for this course together. So let's use this opportunity to have a look at my background as a former school teacher for eight years, teaching both primary and secondary yield levels. And I believe having that experience has helped me bring together the content for this course and structured in a way that helps you to learn. So I'm really leaning on that teaching experience to bring the most out of this course for you. I'm also a former representative of Australia in sport in an unknown sport called Dragon Boat racing. And I actually represented Australia back in 1988 in Hong Kong for the World Championships where we placed fourth. Of also held national roles responsibility in business and obtain a senior executive for a number of different businesses and have also founded a couple of businesses myself, including the of graduate. And they live graduate is all about bringing courses and educational information to students, to adults, to children, to really help them to excel in life. On an Amazon bestselling author for the book, the habit switch. But I've also created numerous different books or back goals, habit development, and also morning routines. So also, I want to bring that information together for this course. I'm also the creator of two best-selling online courses. And so they are about self-publishing and helping people to create a business around publishing books. As I mentioned before, are founded the law of graduate back in 2019. Over the last number of years, I've been providing programs in schools and universities, but also running masterclass workshops on habit development for senior executives. That's the kind of experience that I wanted to bring together for this course to help the beginners that are really new, to have a development, to really excel at it and make a huge difference in your life. So let's get onto the next lesson. 3. How Will This Course Be A Game Changer For You?: How will this course be a game changer for you? The importance of having the right habit development should never, ever be underestimated. The same goes for developing negative habits. If you develop the wrong habits, they can also compound to have a detrimental impact on what you want to achieve. Forming the right habits across health, wealth, and happiness are critical when we talk about health. Not just referring to our physical being, but also our mental health too. So these are the critical things that I want to bring into this course to be able to help you across those key areas. So how easy it's going to be a game changer for you? Well, if you can start to implement and get the right strategies in place now, the compounding effect over not just days, months, years is gonna be a long-term positive thing that you can actually incorporate into your life. So that's where this is going to be a game changer for you. I'm going to teach you those strategies and those skills that when you implement them, you'll start to see those small changes and years. You may not see them immediately. But if you can stick with it and maintain the plan that I'm going to be putting in are helping you put in place is going to be something that you can carry on and also pass on to other friends and family to help them achieve what they want to achieve. So that's where this course is going to make a big difference for you. There are gonna be plenty of new things and concepts you're going to be learning. But remember, try and get rid of all the other thoughts and things that you've had in your mind previously. And try and adapt these new thoughts and feelings. Because it's these different changes that you will be looking at that will help you to develop the right mindset to get your habit development in place. So I'm really looking forward to changing the way you think implementing these strategies that are going to make a big difference to you. So let's get into the next lesson and I'll show you some more things that you need to know about as we begin this course for mastering habit development. 4. The Importance of Supportive Habit Development: And welcome to a new lesson and a new section. In this particular lesson, we'll be looking at the importance of supportive habit development. But overall, as a section, what we're gonna be doing is building your habit framework. And so what do I mean by that? Well, there's the initial framework we need to create. And along with this lesson, the importance of supporting habit Delta element. We can be looking at flipping the switch. What things can you do to start that process of supportive habit development? Then we're going to be looking at investing in yourself. What things can you do to really help you to invest the most you can into yourself to build your habits. Creatures of habit. So those things that we do daily, that our habits, but sometimes can get a little bit of out-of-control. The next section we'll be developing supported habits to achieve your goals. And then finally in this section, the last lesson, we'll be building the right habits for you. Tailoring them specifically for you, and making sure they are relevant to what you want to achieve. So let's get into the importance of supportive habit development for this first lesson. Let's first look at supportive habit development. What does this mean? Well, it means a y that we can actually move forward. And what things we need to take in consideration regarding the supportive processes to get habits included in our daily structure so that they are more effective. I remember when I was first starting into the process of building better habits, particularly my morning habits. It did take a bit of time and it also required resources and different books that I was reading, videos that I was watching to help me to understand or get a better understanding of what I needed to do to make sure I was implementing the right strategies. Because you can be implementing the wrong strategies and going the wrong way. Therefore, a could be more detrimental to what you're currently doing. So let's look at these key areas of supportive habit development and what they actually mean in regards the process we're looking at for you right now. Supported habit development really begins with knowing what you want in the future and working backwards to develop the rod goals, principles and mindset. If you don't know what you want to achieve, then it's very hard to create a plan and steps that you can then change your habits for your needs, something into the future that we can then establish and sit. We can work back from there to develop your plan. You also need to have the right principles and mindset in place. If you're not willing to accept the change needs to happen, then that needs to happen initially. And get your mindset right. So we can start these changes. Number to implementing the right supportive habits incrementally. That means slowly, will have the greatest positive impact for your health, wealth, and happiness. For the long term. We should never expect things to happen immediately. We need to build things slowly. And you'd rather build things slowly over a three to six-month period. Therefore, you can have a long-term lifelong change. Rather than try to do things too quickly, they break down. The four you're losing jurist will be discussing this more later in the course. Number three, the greatest change you can make is to adjust your mindset from short-term to long-term thinking and develop the right goals that you feel passionate about. Now why am I talking about goals with habit development, we need to have something in mind that will allow us to think about what we want to achieve. And that you're passionate about. What is it that will get you up every day if you want a different morning routine, we've got to have something in front of your mind that excites you, that gets you going. Maybe it's something you want to change with your academic side of things. What grades do you want to achieve? What cost you would you like to would you like to complete? What profession would you like to go to? They should be all driving forces behind your habit development and also your overall well-being. So it could also be to do with your health and your mindset. Developing strong health goals. He's gonna be something that would be a very strong driver because the healthy you are, the more things you can do, the more energy you have. And therefore, you can move forward probably without, without as much resistance. Therefore, building the right habit framework. We'll start with. The supportive habits. You begin with a naval include goals that you want to achieve, just small ones. It just needs to be something that you have a target on. Because the process of habit development, we'll start with that first step. Knowing what you want, setting the plan, and then building it incrementally, which means slowly. So we're just having small steps. We just starting with one main habit that we want to change. And we change that incrementally or very slowly. And I'll give you an example as we go through the course of how to do that and what an example looks like for me personally. And what I had to do to get a morning routine started, whereas rising just before six AM every day. And that actually got back to just before five AM every day. So I had the right morning routine that is going to work well for me. But that's for another lesson. But as I mentioned, let's just get that supportive habit development strategy to begin with, right? And that starts with knowing what an end goal looks like. But we'll go into that soon in another lesson. 5. Flipping on the Habit Switch : Welcome to this lesson. It's about flipping on the habits switch. But firstly, what our habits, we haven't really covered exactly what habits are. Those small actions that you take over the course of a day that do add up to create different patterns of behavior that you're doing. So these can be negative habits. They could be positive habits. Negative habits might be always go into the fridge and reaching for a bottle of soft drink and having five of those a day. It could be I'm getting are getting up to light, not getting ready for work quick enough, or even school. And therefore, it just has a knock-on effect for the rest of the day. You're running behind, you're trying to make catch up. But habits can also be things that are automated and that's what I like to try and do with my habits. Habit might be the way that you brush your teeth. Even the circular motion or the patent that you do when you brush your teeth is a habit. So we can break habits, tend to macro habits. Then, by doing that, we can then work out what habits we can try and implement into our daily life that we can automate because automation of habits is possible. And you'll start doing things without recognizing them if you do them for long enough and consistently enough. When we have habits that are built into our daily routine. And we start with the small habits and we build on them. Then, as I'm saying here, how little changes can produce massive results for your health, diet, energy levels by introducing incremental mini habits. So the mini habits is the key here. And that's what we're gonna be focusing on a part, as part of our flipping on the habits which we need to make that change. We need to think carefully about what is something that we want to change. How do we flick on that switch or flip around to make it work effectively for us. And that's what the key will be. For the next few lessons, we'll be baptized many habits and what we need to do to make them effective for us. So let's look at now a way that we can effectively flip on the switch and get that process moving. 6. Invest in Yourself and Your 'WHY?': Invest in yourself. This is really the first part of the process that we need to get our mindset around so that we can move forward. Because the more you invest in yourself and your growth, the better you'll be getting an understanding of what is important for you and having the right resources in place so you can make things happen. The first part of the process of investing in yourself is to get an understanding of your why. Why is it that you want to change your habits? Is there something that you're identifying that isn't quite right? Or their study habits you are doing at school or university that you'd just finding an effective. Are you finding your physical health isn't as good as where you'd like it to be. Well, the first step is to invest in yourself and understand your why. Now what I did to invest in my knowledge to start with, was to read several different books. And this in key books that are fan of been a huge influence on me wanting to sort of create the habit switch, which is just up there. But also our gain inspiration from a few different books regarding goal-setting, habit development, and personal well-being. Now, a few of these books, one, recommend the habit switch by James Clear. The next one is maximum achievement by Brian Tracy. And the third one that I really enjoyed was the fire they M Club by Robin Sharma. Those three books really helped me to identify what are these that I wanted to achieve. And therefore, they sit me on the right course to create a plan of attack that will allow me to develop these different strategies that I could implement for my habit change to occur. But it did start with me wanting change, wanting to know what I needed to do to implement these small changes into my life. And from there, I've really, really accelerated with backyard achieve so much more in my life. My Fitness has never been better. My knowledge and my skillset have increased substantially because I've been reading more. I've been bringing that into my daily routine. But also its other elements like meditation's that are now or have if part of my morning routine as well. But you do need to invest in yourself and you do need to be very clear of what you want and your y. And that will be to invest in different things. And you started great way by investing your time and effort into this course. Because this course will provide you with the key strategies that you can take away, that it needs to be strong enough. You're raising needs to be strong enough for you to change. Your y. Needs to be strong enough. Why is it that you want to change something? And it depends on what stage you're at. You may be a student and you might be going through school or university right now. And you're still working your way through about what you want to get to. But even then, a twelv month or three plan will help you to understand what you need to do. Because as I've mentioned, what you do need to change is your thinking pattern, short-term and long-term. And NAD is critical in flipping the switch. Having that long-term mindset and not short-term. If you have long term, you can build things incrementally and make those small changes to make things happen for you. The biggest challenge that I personally found was that I wasn't seeing those immediate changes and I was putting a lot of time and effort into making changes. But it just took that compounding time for things to slowly happen. And I'm so glad, so glad that I took more time to get these patterns of behavior right, because now they are almost automated. In the morning, I come down and I'll end up doing four sets of 70 sit-ups. And at the end of the day, I can't even remember even doing them. That's how automated they are or get things set up so they're ready to go. But it's also the dot that I have. I know what I should be eating. And if there's a treat, then yes, I may occasionally have a treat. But I know my pattern of behavior for my habits for the rest of the week will be good. And I can actually get the right energy in place to help me drive my mindset and to get ready and be energised for every single day that I approach. There just a few things about helping you flip on the switch and also investing in yourself. And as I said, you started the runway by investing in this course. And I'd highly recommend you look at getting some books and resources as well to complement this course to help you. Because those are the things that will allow you to become much richer in knowledge and information to move you forward. Hopefully, that helps regards to investing in yourself for habit development. 7. Creatures of Habit : This lesson is called creatures of habit. We do tend to become creatures of habit in many different ways. Now these also could be contributors for good habits or bad habits. We tend to get stuck in particular kinds of behaviors or patterns of behavior. And again, these could be positive or negative. Once we become accustomed to a good set of principles or behaviors, we tend to stick to them. And that's where we become creatures of habit. Again, you might have an alarm that goes off at seven AM in the morning and your habit will be to get out of bed, maybe have some breakfast, have a shower, brush your teeth, and get ready to either go to school, university, or even work. That's these kinds of habits that we build over a certain period of time. But what if we want to change that habit? What happens if we want to short-circuit that current set of behaviors and make a transformation. With that, what does it take to transform your behavior or your patterns of behavior so that you can change the current way that you're performing things. So what do we need to focus on for a transformation to occur? The first thing we need to focus on is a distinct change in your mindset, how you're thinking. What do we need to do to change that? So there's been plenty of research in regards to the different kinds of mindset. They come up with two different mines sorts. There's a static mindset and a development mindset. Static means that you tend to get stuck in your ways and you're not open to change. Whereas a development mindset is something where you do want to change. You are open to learning new things, progressing more challenging, to develop better behaviors and different kinds of habits. What we're doing, we want to move more towards the development mindset. Because right now you might be stuck in a static mindset. And you need to make that transformation to develop a mindset be open to change because nobody can help you unless you're willing to change yourself. You can't ever be forced into doing anything. You need to be open to that change. And number three, you need to keep your reason for change at the forefront of your mind. What is it that is so strong for you that you want to change? Right now? We may not have a very good reason. Therefore, I can almost guarantee that the ability for you to change to positive habits will be limited. It might only be very, very short-term because you're not looking far enough ahead to make that change. And the reason is a driving force behind you making that change. It needs to ignite you inside and needs to want you to get out of bed early, for example, make sure that you're doing your meditation, you're doing your reading, you're implementing your study habits at night time. You're walking or jogging at least half an hour during the day. You might be doing some stretching. You need to have a very strong reason for change. And that is critical for the starting period before we can start to automate it. And remember we only start with very small changes. It's called incremental change. And that's what I'm going to be helping you to transform as part of this course. 8. Developing the Right Daily Habits : Welcome to this lesson. The lesson is called developing the right daily habits. Now, developing the right daily habits comes down to, I believe, four key principles. So let's look at those key principles now because they need to be at the forefront of your habit development. Third, to be successful, we need to implement these principles to begin with. So to start with, let's look at the one up here. Establishing supportive habits, daily habits, the foundation for positive growth. So they need to be that key step that you take when we're actually looking at the positive growth for what we wanted to achieve. So let me say that again, establishing supportive daily habits forms the foundation for positive growth. The next principle, daily habits can take anywhere between 60 to 90 days to become ingrained depending on the frequency. You don't just start a habit and then expect for it to be part of your daily routine and automation. It can take between 6090 days. And as I mentioned, it does depend on the frequency. If you're doing something three days per week, four for four weeks, then that is going to become more ingrained in your daily habit routine quicker than if you do something every second day. So just know that it does take some time. The next principle to expect immediate success is naive, meaning you should never just expect immediate success to occur. To start with gradual, incremental changes with very little resistance. What do I mean by very little resistance? You need to have change that is so slow that you hardly even recognize it. Also, you need to make things easy for yourself. For example, if you are wanting to get up early in the morning and go for a walk, so 30-minute walk. And you're doing that walk at 630 in the morning. What you'd need to do is to get your walking clothes ready the night before. Therefore, when you wake up in the morning, you can just simply hop out of bed, not disturb anyone else in the household. Your clothes are ready in your clothes and actually go. Whereas if you had to go to your wardrobe and get new clothes out, find your shoes, perhaps even find the dog lead. Then that is going to cause a resistance point, which makes it harder for you to start. So reduce that resistance point. And finally, having a reason to develop your habits will drive daily commitment. And I've mentioned this a few times already in the previous lessons. You need to have your strong reason, your why, to develop your habits. And that will drive every single day to ensure you're doing the right things and having a positive daily habit routine moving forward. So they're the four key principles for developing the right daily habits to begin with. Number one, was making sure that you have supported daily habits because they form the foundation for positive growth. Next one was make sure that you do understand that daily habits can take between 60 to 90 days to become ingrained depending on the frequency. Next one, don't expect success immediately. Start with incremental changes and make them as least resistant as possible. And we'll talk about that more. And then I'll finally having really strong reason your why to develop your habits. Because that will drive, drive daily commitment. 9. Building the Right Habits For You : Welcome to this lesson, building the right habits for you. I see it too often that people build different habits based on the goals or the requirements by other people. And they don't tailor it to what they need, what they want. You need to ensure that when you build your incremental habits, you'll slow habits that you're doing it for your reasons. And you need to build these the system slowly so that they're gonna be right for you because we're looking at building something over the long term. And you can only sustain the energy and the commitment to build your supportive habits if it's for you personally. So let me talk a bit more about how this is gonna do working favor of your habit development for the long term. Why is personalizing your habit change so important? Well, the reason it's important is because you're the one that's going to be making that commitment for change. But remember, it needs to be sustainable. It needs to be a habit that you can keep on carrying on and nothing that's too drastic, too quickly. It's a small steps that you take initially that will actually turn into big steps and big bounds later on. As your habit becomes built into your subconscious mind and becomes automated. So it's at this point in the course, we're really need to try and make it practical for you. I want you to start to think through what something is important for you. What we do do that would require a change. What is it that you do want to change? That will help you to build those habits for the long term. So I'll give you another practical example about how I went from getting up at 07:00 AM to getting up at five AM in the morning. And BRD include my 30-minute walk. Goes back to when I did want to make a change for the exercise I was doing and I was fine as far as getting up at seven AM, I'd get ready for work, go to work, come home and be too tired and worn out, had family commitments on and it just wouldn't be getting around the opportunity to do exercise. And so that was important for me. I needed to build something into my routine that would allow me to did that exercise in at the start of the day. And it benefited me greatly because my health and well-being was Paul is for the long-term, really, really important. So what I end up doing is setting my alarm earlier for five minutes each day. If I started at seven AM, the day after would be at 655 AM. And then the following day, 650 I am that I might have another day where I do at 650 AM, then another day I'd bring it back another five-minutes by doing that incremental change. But five minutes, I really didn't even notice it. And then over a period of a few weeks and actually brought that alarm back to 06:00 AM. And it was at incremental slow change that allowed me to start to get up at 06:00 AM. Therefore, I'll then be able to go for my walk for half an hour, get back at 630 still, and I'll have plenty of time to be able to do some reading or a meditation. And then by seven o'clock, which is the normal time I was getting up, I'd be able to have my breakeven my shower and get ready for work. But in that hour prior to when I was normally getting up, I'd already completed a half hour of exercise, some stretching and meditation. And my morning was well and truly on the way. And they just the small little incremental change I was making. And I thought I'm making some great progress here. So what I ended up doing is starting at pattern again and has continued to bring my alarm clock back and my goal was a 530 AM wake up. Why do they want that? Well, I wanted to also include some sit-ups that we're going to help with my core strength. I was having a few back issues, needed to bring in some time to be able to get that exercise in the morning, to be able to help with my back. And the reason I chose the morning was because I wasn't gonna be disturbed. I have all the time to be able to do this as our incrementally brought that alarm clock back, then started to do some sit-ups. And I started with three sets of 15 setups. Then I, after a bit of time, are then increase that to three by 20 setups. That I increase it to three by 25. And suddenly and a few weeks later or actually probably more like a month and a half later, I was up to about 50 setups in three sets per day. And the change was enormous. And when you add all those sit ups up over the course of the year, just by simply making a change to my alarm clock by five minutes every day or every second day. It allowed me to build these automatic habits in. And as I mentioned very early on in the course, I now do my sit-ups and I'm up to four by 70 sit-ups every day, so 280 setups per day. And over the course of the week, that adds up. Don't ask me immediately what that is, but it's a lot. And over the course of the year, It's a huge amount. And that is helping me with my core body strength. And I haven't had a back issue since. But it was making that commitment thinking, well, I want to start with my exercise first. So I brought that alarm clock back five-minutes. And again, it was a resistance point. It wasn't hard to bring my alarm clock back by five minutes. But if I decided to bring back by 15 or 20 minutes or an hour, yes, I would have noticed that immediately and yes, I would have been waking up feeling really tired and exhausted and I probably wouldn't have been asked to sustain it. But that five-minute change was what changed everything for me. That five-minutes built out over time allowed me to do more walking, my sit-ups, more rating, more meditations, and therefore, I'm ready, go in the morning. And I've had my own time to do that. But again, these were my goals. And that's where it's important for you to set your own goals. I made a commitment and a stuck to it. And gradually and I have got a long-term goal of being able to maintain this. So that's just a practical example of how I've been able to tailor my goals and my habits to suit me. And that's what I want you to start to think about. What do you really want to do? What are you prepared to give up in regards to achieving your goal by building your habits? For me giving up some sleep time. But that just meant that at the other end, when I was going to bed, that's going to be at a bit earlier. So if I would normally be going to bed at ten PM, I'd go to bed at between 9915. So I wasn't giving up the length of time of sleep. I was just giving up that end period of a day where probably wasn't doing much anyway, might have been a bit of TV. And in the morning when I would normally be sleeping on up and about. And I've already done between an hour or an hour-and-a-half of exercise and mental health activities. So hopefully that helps you think carefully about tailoring your daily habits to what you want and what you want to achieve. 10. The 5 Keys to Success For Habit Development: Welcome to the lesson. So what are the five keys to success for habit development? Will, in this lesson, I'm going to be covering of what these five things are. They going to be critical for your habit development and to make this successful change, which I know you can achieve. Let's talk a little bit further about this before I discuss what these five key success. In a moment, I'm going to introduce you to the five keys to success for habit development. And I think these key steps or these key principles are going to be so important for you to understand. Because if you have these five easy things to remember, then it's very, very important that you reflect back on them regularly so that if you do hit an obstacle, then you can go back to these guiding principles. So these keys to success, to get realigned. So let me show you what these five keys are and how they will help you to be successful for habit development. The five keys to success, being number one, changes must be small and incremental. Must include them slowly. Work through a small plan of including them as you go along. For example, my morning routine where I bought my alarm clock back by five minutes each day. If you wanted to start a core body strengthening activity like sit-ups, we wouldn't just go into doing 40 setups in one go. You might do five sit-ups. On day one. The next day, you might include two more. You do seven. The next day. You might include one more or a couple of war, and you build up until you maybe get to a certain set. Your goal might be to do 20 sit-ups. Once you get to 20, you then call that sit number one. Next time you do 20 steps and then you wait. And you might start your next set. You might do five and then just white the next day. Or a couple of days later after risk day, you might start to build on your second set of sit-ups. So it's just a slow burn. In regards to setting up our habits for success. You must have a compelling reason why habit changes necessary for you. So what is going to be that drive to get you up out of bed or to complete that task or the activity, or to stay away from a certain food, or to stop doing something which you know, isn't causing a negative influence on what you want to achieve. So must be a compelling reason and be important for you, not someone else. For you. We need to develop a plan for success. And that's another lesson that I'll be introducing later on in the course. And let's bet developing a plan for success for the long term. Number four, make the path. The head is easy, easy, can aim for the least resistance. Make your steps nice and easy. So they're not hard to do. And you're not going to shy away from making these changes because it easy, this small and they're easy, but small changes over long term add up to be big changes. Number five, you must introduce a queue or reminder to complete the habit like a checklist. For example, if you wanted to do sit-ups on just giving you an example, that might not be your goal for doing it. But as an example, if you had room that you walked into each morning, then you might put the GMAT or yoga mat on the ground the night before. So you literally have to trip over your mat before you walk past it and that trigger would be you go, well, I need to do my setups. You might have another trigger point for another activity or a food that you have that you don't want to do. So when you see it, immediately, there's a reaction you have going, I don't want to touch that. So you need to have a queue or reminder to complete the habit, walk a checklist. So let's quickly go through those again. Changes must be small and incremental. You must have a reason behind why change is necessary. Develop your plan for success, make the path ahead easy and aim for the least resistance. And finally, you must introduce a queue or reminder to complete the habit, like a checklist. If you follow these five keys to success, you will surely accomplish a good, strong habit that will help you for the long term. 11. DR. ACTION - The 8 Key Steps to Fast-Track Your New Habits: Welcome to this lesson. This lesson will be about an acronym called Dr. action. Now an acronym is where a letter will stand for a certain word or keyword when we go through it. Now, this started back that 2019 in the development of a book I wrote called magnetic goals. And after seeing many people looking at the goals, working out how to create their goals, or wanted a simple acronym that would step someone through the process of goal setting. But it actually really helps with habit development as well. Because as we know, sitting your goals is a big, big part of habit development and setting your plan in place. So let me run through what each letter of Doc direction stands for. Then we can talk more about how we can implement this into a habit development. Direction is an eight-step plan for goal setting. Because we're looking at habit development or won't go into a huge amount of depth regarding each of these, but just a summary point. So you get an understanding. So D is for dream big, we need to make sure we're not holding back on what we want to achieve, we really need to expand on what are these that we want to achieve. So D is dream big. R is to make it relevant to you. While our habits, we need to make them relevant and tailored to what we want. So lot habits, your goals need to be relevant for you. There's no point shooting for the stars and aiming for the wrong star because it's someone else's star, you need to hit what you want to hit in regards to your goals. I is to take action and not to procrastinate. And that is a big, big step for many people. And that will be the same your habit development. And that's why having a goal and making sure that it's sustainable in regards to setting it up and also incremental. But we need to take those small steps first, and that's where action comes into play. C is coordinates or your plan. So we need to map out what that's going to be. How are we going to get there? If we don't have a plan, how will we be expected to reach that end destination? T equals time. So we need to have a timeframe of what we want to do. If we're starting up our habits. We just want some small little changes that are happening. And you might say, in the next month, I will be getting up at 630 in the morning. Therefore, I'll be wanting more clock back by five-minutes for the next ten days or more. But time is important where you lock in a date might be by the 15th of October. I want to achieve X goal or our will achieve this goal. I is for implement. So we need to start to implement the plan that we've got in place. And that starts with your coordinates in your timeframe and then the implementation of it. The O is for opportunity. And it's amazing when you set your goals, what opportunities start to present. When you have a clear vision and a plan of what you want to achieve. And the n is now, don't hold back. Don't say, I'll wait to do this status next week. Really start to put those small things in place from the moment you commit. Because I've seen it many times before where someone's gotta plan got every intention to change. But they don't, because they don't act in the now. They are thinking that tomorrow is the best day to act. Now, now is the time you need to take action. As my quotes is, the small habits that you do daily, that compound over time to have an enormous impact over the long term. So look at implementing Dr. action into your plan for daily habits because it's a great goal setting process to move through to establish those goals, that they're going to be important for you as part of this process. Dream big, make it relevant, take action, develop a plan and coordinates. Have a timeline that you want to Rachel goal or, or establish your habits. Implement them, look out for opportunities and take action. Now. 12. STOP > REVIEW > PIVOT and POWER: Welcome to the stop, review, pivot and powerless. And there are some times when you just not quite sure whether your habits are moving in the direction that you intend them to. So therefore, I came up with a strategic step-by-step process that will help you to identify where you're at and where you're going and what you might potentially need to change to keep moving forward. Let me introduce you to this concept and talk you through each of these steps so you can use a review pivot and power strategy to your advantage. So let me now introduce you to the stop review pivot and power strategy. Let me walk you through each of these steps so that we can therefore implement them into what we want to do for our daily habits. Number one is stop. So in this step, I want you to stop and pause. Consider the moment you're in right now. So i u habits taking you in the intended direction, are you moving in the direction that you wanted as part of your initial plan and your goals. This is the time just to pause, take a deep breath. Don't worry about what's happened before. Don't worry about what's in front of you. But consider the moment you are in right now, how are you progressing? Number two is review. So look at your answer from when you did stop and decide if it is moving it towards your intended outcome or result. What changes might you need to implement or be implemented to help you move towards the direction that you had initially intended to go towards. And as part of your review, you'll be thinking about the different changes that might need to happen. So step number three is pivot. Begin to implement changes you have identified as part of your review process. So step number four is power. Your renewed commitment and clarity will enable you to power and push forward. This is really important as part of this process that you have stopped. You've reviewed what's going on. Is it moving in the right direction? Yes. We'll continue on. If not, then you need to decide what needs to be changed, what small little things need to be identified and changed for you to change that direction and move forward. And that's where we need to pivot. We need to stop and maybe maybe we just need to change direction. And therefore, that will help rectify the situation. And then once we've identified it, once we started implementing it, we need to power forward. So we have a new renewed commitment and we have clarity, which is so important for us to move forward. And many businesses actually implement a similar strategy to ensure that their performance is increasing and they are identifying what is working, what's not working, what needs to be changed so they can move forward and become more successful as part of their strategy. And that's where you need to implement this kind of strategy yourself. So the stop, review, pivot and power strategy is bad. The perfect way for you to identify what's working and what's not. So let me give you a practical example of what that might look like. Just say you feel like you're spending too much time on your mobile device. Each day is spinning two to three hours on that device being distracted by different applications, different messages that are coming up all the time. And one of your goals was to reduce that to 1.5 hours per day of screen time. So eaten that moment. If I felt that things were getting a little bit out of control, I would stop in that moment, I'd identify. Is that working or isn't not? Is my habit creeping back in where I'm constantly checking my final time, scrolling through different things. And I'm not really getting to the good habit of reducing that screen time. So in that moment, I would stop identify if there's an issue. Yes. It's an issue that I'm using my phone too often for entertainment purposes, shopping, whatever that might look like. Now what we need to do is review it. So we've stopped. We're pausing and now we're going to review the situation. So what's triggering this? What can we do to stop this trigger happening? So our goal was to reduce it from two-hour screen time down to maybe 1.5 hours of screen time. Let's just do one, will do one hour of screen time and make it nice and simple. So we found that we're actually getting traction initially. And we were really strong in changing that habit. And we did it. We started doing it incrementally. So we might have started with two hours worked at backed by, say, ten minutes per day or ten minutes per couple of days. But we've got a plan in action to do that. We found that once we got too close to an hour that it would start to slip up a little bit again. We've stopped at Emory viewing it. So we've reviewed it and we found that what is causing that is the phone is being put right beside you when you might be working during the day or it could be in your pocket on ringtone or vibration. So you're feeling that vibration and alert happening all the time and you're picking it out and you're looking at your phone. What we need to do is stop that small little habit creeping in. And you need to be strong. And that's where our goals need to be really strong about what we want to achieve. So personally, what I would do is I'd have set times in a day where I can look up my phone. It might even be that you put the phone in a different room. You might lock it away for three hours, come and check it for ten minutes and then put it away again. You just need to identify what he's gonna be realistic for you to get back on track. And it could be that you have an alarm on your phone, you put it away when you hear that alarm go off, you know, it's okay to go and check that phone again. That's trying to pinpoint why it's happening and what she can do about it. So stop review and we're pivoting. So which means we're changing our behavior and we're powering on again, we do want to achieve that goal of our screen time per day. And you can even use the application on phones to identify how long you've been on the phone for. And therefore, there's a good goal to be achieved. You can bring that goal down, down, down so that you can actually see that happening all the time. So this is just a practical example. We stopped, we have looked at our habits. Habit was that we're finding that we're slipping back into the old behaviors or poor behaviors regarding our screen time on mobile device. We've reviewed it, we found that and identify what the issue was and that was we were having it beside assault on their pocket all the time. We can we can see it, we could hear it. And it wasn't helping our situation. Then we decided to pivot and make that change. We have removing the device or together to help us with progressing forward. And then we've now decided we are in a position to power forward again with establishing that good habit development. As like what I do when I'm creating courses like this. She put my phone away in another room, in the house, away from where a distraction maker and distractions are happening all the time. And it is one of those areas of habits that we can slip into bad habits with the number of hours we spend on our mobile devices. And it's tends to be getting worse and worse. So if you can pull yourself up on that poor habit or that poor choice, spend too much time, then that is great one to even start with and see, hey, go, make that a big challenge for yourself. So that's the stop review, pivot and power method in action. And hopefully that example helps you out. 13. Take Daily Action!: Taking daily action is critical and it's not just isolated to our daily habits. As an example, if you had an elite athlete and now we're a 100 meter runner, if they had an injury or they stop training, all their muscles would start to will their key muscle groups would start to get what we call muscle dystrophy is where the muscle actually starts to shrink and you need to keep working that muscle. And it's like many, many things. If you don't use it, you'll lose it. And what we need to make sure is that we're taking daily action. And as a little quote here says, it's the continuous actions you take over time, the compounds that make the biggest difference. So little things, little actions might seem insignificant at the beginning, but over time they add up and they make a big difference. So what we want to do in this lesson is focused on taking daily action. And I'm gonna be talking about some of these key steps that you need to do to help you to take daily action for your habit development. So here's some tips for taking daily action. Start by creating a checklist and keep it simple and short. Daily checklist. Even an A4 scrapbook is perfect for this. And definitely tick off the tasks as you worked through them. By having simple tasks that might be three or five that you've got listed. By taking them off, you feel you definitely know you're progressing. That builds confidence. So create your mini checklist. Next one is completing small actions over a long period have a compounding impact or effect. So let's use a setup example. If you do three by 20 sit-ups each day, you'd be doing 60 sit-ups if you move that out to per week. So 60 setups by six days per week, you have a day's rest. You'd be doing 360 setups per week. But if you calculated that over the course of the year, those 23 sets of 20 sit-ups each day oversaw for six days a week over the whole year, adds up to be 18,720 setups per year. So even though they might feel insignificant with your three by 2020 ships per day, it adds up to a significant number. If you're working your abdominals over 18.5 thousand times, you're going to build some really good core body strength. But let's look at some other areas or keys to taking action dilate. The next step is to be consistent. You should avoid missing two days in a row. Consistency is key. As soon as you drop out of that rhythm and consistency, you can get into fall into the trap of stopping. And that's why you should really, really avoid as much as you can, avoiding any of these actions or daily actions that you wanting to build through habit development for more than two days in a row. Next thing is to set mini goals to achieve. So let's give an example of wanting to improve your knowledge in a particular subject area. It might be financial literacy. This week. Or what you want to do is set your goal. Reading 30 minutes each day at seven PM. So you're creating some structure. This week. I'll read for 30 minutes each day at 07:00 PM. So 30 minutes and we're just going to be doing it for five days a week, Monday to Friday. That will add up to 150 minutes or 2.5 hours. But over the course of a month, that 2.5 hours or even 30 minutes each day adds up to ten hours of reading per month. So that's huge. If you think about what you can absorb and the knowledge you can learn over the whole year. If you get ten hours of reading per month, then you're going to be looking at a 120 hours of reading per year. So that's an enormous amount of reading, a 120 hours worth. So imagine the knowledge you can build up by doing that. Again, small structured hours that you're doing. And that's the last point, creates structure in your day. If you can create some structure and really stick by it, that will help you with your habit development. Particularly if their activities where you're getting used to them, like reading, more, like doing sit-ups. If you're having to improve your diet and what you wanted to do some more exercise. These, these are factors that you need to build in, in a structured way. And that's where you can create some structure by even having that checklist and having a few things you start to do at the same time each day that will help you to build consistency and almost automation. And you might have experienced this before, where you've had an alarm that's being going off at 650 for the last three months. If you didn't set that alarm, your natural body clock would be pretty close to waking you up at that exact same time because you get used to it and becomes automated. And that's what you want to create a through your daily actions. 14. How to Build Incremental Habit Change into Your Day and Life: Welcome to this lesson. The critical part of habit development is building incremental habit change. And the most efficient way of being able to build your habits is incrementally. It allows you to build things slowly. Therefore, you can adjust to it. It doesn't feel as overwhelming. And therefore, you get great progress, Excellent momentum, and you build your confidence in the process. So let me go through a few ways that we can build our incremental habit change for habit development. I'm going to cover off four different areas for incremental habit change. Let's go through those now. Number one, it must be gradual change. It should include a gradual process of improving your daily habits and allowing them to build incrementally to create real change. When we do our gradual process of habit development, we allow ourselves to adjust to the changes. Like many things. If you at trying to make a change and you do it too quick, you can get into a bit of shock. And bought the body doesn't like shock. The body likes gradual change. So that's where it is important and I'll show you some examples in upcoming lessons about how you can implement your gradual changes for your habits. Number two is to stick to a plan where most people get it wrong is by trying to do too much and make significant changes in short period of time. If you skip the slow adjustment process and dive right in, you can end up feeling sore, nausea, developed discomfort, risking injury, or have reduced motivation to stick to your plan. This is why the incremental approach is so valuable. About creating your plan, your roadmap. You then have a much better chance to be able to stick to that plan. Bob, building things incrementally. And you'd rather take three to four months to build a really solid habit, rather than try to take things onto quickly. And then lose interests, lose motivation, lose confidence in the first week, and then give up altogether. So think long term. Number three, habit stack. Incorporate habit stacking. One good habit on top of another. Again, I'll show you what habit stacking is in future lessons. But basically it is having one good habit and developing one could have. So for example, if you were wanting to increase your setups for your core body strength. Well, what you could also do once you build up your your setups while you're on your GMAT. He might like to do some hamstring stretches, awesome stretches for your upper body. They for why you're on the mat and you've just completed your setups, you can then habit stack by bringing flexibility and increasing your range of motion. Therefore, it helps prevent injury. So you've got one excellent habit of building core strength through your ups. Then what we're doing is stacking another great habit on top of that with your flexibility and increasing what they call the range of motion around a joint, which means that you faceless injury. Finally, long-term success. Think of the long-term benefits, not the short-term results. And that's where many people get it wrong. They don't think of the long-term benefits. Only those short one week, three weeks to months results. But if you can stick to the habit, build it slowly, build it incrementally. It may be around for life. That's the kind of habit change we're looking for. These positive habits will create change, positive change. Therefore, it's a long-term success you are aiming for. Not just to get ten books read in a month and then just stop because you think that was so time-consuming and then you give it away. We're looking for you to read a 100 books over a couple of Yi's, which is gonna be much better than reading just ten books after one month and then giving up. So we're looking for that incremental change that you can build on slowly. And it has that compounding effect for your change for habits. 15. My Morning Routine Habits and Habit Stacking: In this lesson, my key focus will be to discuss habit stacking. And habit stacking is a wonderful way to be able to leverage what you've already built regarding a positive habit and build further habits on top of that, that will laugh or even a greater change. Now, effectively being able to do that for my morning routine as well as other habits. But I think the morning routine will actually show you the huge change that can occur by using the habit stacking method. So let me go through what my morning habit is. And I'll also give you some details about how I use that morning habit, habit stack and to bring on beta habits throughout that process. Over a period of six months, I was able to build on my existing habits that I began with. Two then bring bring it together these habits altogether. So let me show you my routine. For 5500 AM, my alarm will go off. Yes, it's early. But what I did was incrementally bring my alarm from when I used to get up between 6457 AM. My target was to be able to bring it back to fire them or just proud of I am. Therefore, I did the five-minute change being I adjusted my alarm clock by five-minutes every day or every second day and are gradually brought that alarm clock back. So it was incremental. I didn't really notice the change too much and it wasn't gonna be a shock to the system. Therefore, over a period of couple of months, although I will bring that time from initially set at 06:45 AM or 07:00 AM, back to 455 AM and are needed that time from 455 to get everything I wanted to get done in the morning that will allow me to improve my health and fitness and also to have more time to start some work that I was beginning with a new career, directionals taking on as a business owner. So I just needed that extra time. So that was a big motivation for me. Then at 05:00 AM, I then exercise and listen to an educational podcast. So initially, I was doing my exercise for about 20 to 25 minutes. And a habit stack that are then built on top of that was to listen to a podcast. The podcast included many self-help podcasts, Educational Podcasts, starting a business story podcast. So they're the sort of things or went through and add 540 are then do my 280 sit ups. So it consists of four by 70 rips of 70. Now, sorry, I'll do that again. You can consists of four reps of 70 setups in that as part of that 280. Again, I built that up incrementally or didn't just go into doing 290 sit-ups or built that up slowly by doing the first 15 sit-ups back a number of months ago. Then I just keep kept on adding four to five setups per session. Then I'll pause for a few days. Then I'd keep going and I'll just gradually added the sit-ups. And when I got to a certain number of reps are then split them up. And then by the next either the period of six months doing sits of 70, then I have my breakfast at 550 AM, which includes a healthy breakfast, making sure that I was energized and I was fueled up for the day. 06:00 AM. I do my personal daily goal affirmations. So I have a list of different goals that I want to achieve over the next 12 months and over the next five years. And I write those down and I even have a recording of me talking through those goals that I want to achieve. So it's really a place for me to think about what I need to take action and prioritize in the day. Then six O Father do a meditation. And again, visualization for 15 minutes is something relaxing. It might be the ocean sounds or rainforest sounds where I immersed myself in the moment and really relax and meditate. Then at 620 I'll plan out my day. So I have a clear focus, clear plan of what my priorities are and what I need to get done. And then 625, I'll share and I'm ready to start the day. So that's my morning routine. Is I mentioned that didn't just happen immediately. It took six months of slowly building habits on top of others that allow me to do that. When I was bringing back my alarm clock, I started initially with the exercise and walk. And therefore that was gonna take me 20 to 25 minutes. Once I started to build that timeout a bit further and get I was getting up a little bit earlier. I was able to then start to include the synapse so that by bringing my alarm clock back further, that gave me some more time that allow me to build into those sit-ups. Then went when I started doing approximately 80 setups, are then was able to bring in the goal affirmations and start to include those as well. So as you can see, these sort of things do take, um, time, not just in regards to what happens twenty four, fifty five and six twenty-five am. But it does take time to build the supportive habits and habits, stack them as you go through the process. So my major goal of being able to improve my physical health, mental health, and also my core body strength. But also plan out what I need to get done. So my time management organization all was able to get done between these hours. So that was a huge motivation for me to get those sorts of things happening. I needed that time to do that. So the starting point was getting my alarm clock back gradually by those five-minutes than just starting to gradually building those habits as we went through. So that's an example of my morning routine. And let's have a look at the long-term compound impact of doing these habits as part of my morning routine. What do these habits amount to? Let me read that little blue out there. So over the course of one month, assuming I do these habits six days a week and you Sunday as my rest and recovery day, they build up to a powerful transformation. Here is the massive compounding impact. Our receipt by the end of the month, walking and exercising, 16 hours. Podcast or inspirational interviews, self-help, educational resources and things that you're learning about 16 hours. Sit ups by doing my four sets of 76,720 setups for core strength and avoiding the lower back pain that was the initial starting May wanting to build my core body strength. So that was a big goal of mine. Planting my goals subconsciously via daily affirmations, two hours per month, meditation and visual visualization, six hours per month, and then prioritization of daily activities to move closer to my goal. Goals. So it's 72 key daily actions I am taking by setting aside that time to get my time management organised. Such a huge amount of things that do tally up over the course of the month. And you can imagine what numbers we're looking at if it was over 12 months. So hopefully that helps you regarding habit stacking, potentially morning routine for yourself and what that actually all amounts to if you do the habit stacking correctly. 16. Demonstrating an Example of Habit Development: Here's the practical example. What I want to do is move from waking up at seven in the morning and I run to rise at 06:00 AM. So what do I need to do as a practical example to show you how this can be achieved. So let me walk you through the steps. So my Y, what is my why? Why do I want to achieve this? By rising at 06:00 AM, I can commence the morning with 30 minutes of exercise and read 20 minutes overbook. 30 minutes of exercise in the morning will improve my overall health over a four month, assuming I do this six days per week, this will add up to 12 hours of exercise. 20 minutes of reading in the morning or in the IM will improve my overall knowledge over four month, assuming I did this six days per week will add up to eight hours of reading per month. How are we going to do this? By incrementally bringing my alarm back bar five-minutes over just a period of one month, I'll have achieved my goal of 06:00 AM. Just that commitment of one month, five-minutes, every couple of days will allow me to achieve this goal. And our need to have the motivation to ensure that our stick with it. I'm committed to it because I know the overall I'm positive consequence will be that will improve my health and fitness and also my knowledge and expertise and skill level by reading more. So let me go through the process. This is what I call the hair. Stop on initially setting your alarm five-minutes earlier, every third day, six days per week. We Sunday being day when you can sleep in. The schedule shows how a small change every three days would play out, allowing you five minutes to get out of bed and perhaps make a cup of tea before beginning to read or exercise, depends on what order you want to do it in. We might actually start with the exercise first week one, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 655, I am alarm, so I've moved it back by five minutes. No reading or exercise at this point. It's just getting used to that really are alone. In the same week on the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the alarm is well backed by five minutes to 06:45 AM. Still no reading or exercise at this stage. So on that Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, I've just brought the alarm clock back, bought five minutes. Wait to Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 06:40 AM. Alarms are brought back by another five minutes. Therefore, this now allows me to stop my exercise, ten minutes of exercise, and just a quick five-minute of reading. The five-minute reading doesn't sound like much, but this is all part of the process and the structure to build it incrementally. That same week in week two, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, alarm is brought back to 635 per meaning 15 minutes of exercise and t minutes of reading. So remember for your exercise, you'd need to make sure there's the least amount of resistance. So you'd have your exercise equipment will organize the night before so you can get straight into it, start your exercise, and even have your book ready-to-go. Week three, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 630 AM alarm now, which is permitting 20 minutes of exercise and Tim answering that same week on the Thursday, Friday seller, the alarm is brought back to 620, permitting 25 minutes of exercise and 15 minutes now of reading. So you can see just after three weeks, we're now doing 25 minutes of exercise and fifth domain serine. In the final week of the month, Monday, Tuesday when say 615 alarm, permitting 30 minutes of exercise and 15 minutes reading. And in the final few days of week four, alarm is brought back to six I M, which is our target, permitting you to reach your goal of 30 minutes of exercise and 20 minutes of ring. Now remember, this requires you to have the commitment to make sure you're sticking to your plan. But it is gradual and that's the beauty of this method. What we're doing is gradually bring it in. And what we want to do is instill that in our mind. Becomes automated. And you don't even really know or forget. You forget about what Tom Easter slip into and you're not going to worry about that hour each day that you missed a sleep. What you'll benefit will far outweigh that with your exercise and your reading. I'm going to run through six steps. Step number one, start with introducing your Tiny Habits to begin with something very small, just nice and easy. That's what we need to start with. Step number two, have everything organized than our prior. When you're half asleep, the last thing you want to be doing is searching around for socks and shoes at six AM. When falling asleep every night, visualize your end goal and tell yourself to achieve this goal. On need to rise at six AM. It's a subconscious dream seed. And that's gonna be your challenge is to maintain what you set out to achieve, and that's your goal or your target needs to be really strong and meaningful to you. Sit number four, set a peaceful sounding alarm. You don't want to be startled awake. Sit number five, catch yourself, catch yourself out. If you hear that little voice saying, just stay. These are longer in these cozy bed. It's what makes the difference between the top 10% and lower 90% of the population. And you want to build those really productive and helpful habits for your morning. Step number six, enjoy what you do for that first 20 to 40 minutes. Make it a good reason to get cracking and get out of bed. You really want to be looking forward to starting your habit and getting some movement into your body and some relaxation into your mind. Get your body move me because it'll start your day perfectly well. 17. Motivation and Avoiding a Habit Short-Circuit: Establishing your daily habits will not always be smooth sailing. So what can you do if you have what I call a short circuit, where you start to drift away from what you had in mind or planned to develop your daily habit. If you maintain a commitment and have a strong enough goal, a reason, or your why, why do you want to achieve these habits and make it automated? That will really help to make sure that you remain focused and committed and develop resilience. Should you be tested? The world or the universe will test you, guaranteed. And you'll find that there are times where you feel tired, you feel lethargic, you don't feel like continuing. But the end point, the opportunity to make this change really is gonna be hugely beneficial to you. And what we've been going through with previous lessons will help you sit you up to this stage. But what happens if you do have that short-circuit? What things can cross check to help you get back on track to make sure you maintain that enthusiasm towards the establishment of your habit. When bad habits re-emerge, what can you do to ensure you don't slip back into poor choices? So this is how to avoid a habits short-circuit. Number one, revisit your schedule. How has your schedule weighing up with the other habits you might be developing heavy tried to bring to many habits together at the onetime are the times that you're trying to aim for not suitable or conducive to your other activities during the day. Just look at your schedule and see whether it's the right time to be implementing to use existing momentum. So if you've already developed a really good habit, habit stack at work on increasing that momentum because that builds confidence. Use that to your advantage. Number three, avoid missing more than two days in a row. So if you're looking at changing something to two days or more, can really offset your automation process. Process because it does take between 6090 days to develop a habit. By missing days, it does cause issues because you'd get out of that rhythm. Number four, Make your environment conducive to six is, how can you create the least resistance to start your habit, maintain your habit. Look at what they are. And as I mentioned in a previous lesson about setting up a morning routine. If you don't have your exercise equipment and everything ready in the morning, then it's probably going to be harder for you to get out of bed and get going. So what can you do to make that resistance point? The list? The next one, mix things up. Try a few different strategies. If one is not working, try another one. The one way may not always work. So think of different things The chicken include, make it more exciting. Provide a few more incentivize things that will help you get through that period of time. Just mix it up. And lastly, revisit your goals for alignment. What were those initial goals that you've established with y? For wanting to stop this habit? I strong enough. They really need to be strong goals and personal to you. But you to push through these hard times because inevitably these had these hard times, we will happen guaranteed. But it's through this that you develop a really good opportunity to develop that resilience and push through these hard times. So when a hard time comes up again, you've thought I've got through this before and I'll get through it again. It needs to mean a lot to you to push through because I'm telling you getting up in the morning when it's very cold and you're in a nice cozy bed, if you wanted to change your morning routine, can be hard, but you just got to think of the long-term opportunities are available by sticking with the plan, making it really personal to you, and having your goals in alignment. So hopefully that will help you to avoid a habit short-circuit if or when it does occur. 18. Take Action - START TODAY!: Take action, start today. Being able to take action will be that first step towards development of habits. Let me talk a little bit further about that. Now. You've now got all the knowledge and understand the theory and the practicalities about introducing habits. But without taking action, nothing will ever change. You need to make sure that you take action and take it as soon as possible. To keep this momentum going. You can read all the books. You can take all the courses about habit development. But unless you're ready and willing and committed to make that change, nothing is going to happen. So I really want you to make that commitment to yourself, to take action and to really make a difference to what you want to achieve. There are plenty of lessons in this course that have gone through the theory of habit development and about the practicalities of putting it together, creating habit stacking. But unless you actually take that information and utilize it, like any good book or any good course, then nothing's going to happen from here. Now you've invested a significant amount of time and resources to be able to do this course. So therefore, you owe it to yourself to put these steps into action. Now nothing is going to come easy. You need to remember that these kinds of things do take time. They take effort and that commitment to make it work. Now found from creating and writing many, many books, creating courses, being on executive teams, helping with management, recruitment. That all takes little steps each day. Just those macro actions which then put things into place. But if you want to change the direction of what's going on, whether it be for your health, your wealth, your fitness, your relationships, your education. You do need to take action. And that's not just to do with habits, it's to do with many other elements of what we're doing together and individually to a shared commitment to make things work. So make sure that you take action at the conclusion of this course. Make sure that you make that commitment to yourself. Start with your goals. Start with something that's going to mean a lot to you. And that will really help you to take that initial step and it just takes it one step to stop that momentum. It's like when you're maybe pushing a car that's run out of gas or it's broken down. The first few steps are really, really hard to get that car moving, to get that momentum going, it's heavy. And once you start to get the momentum going of that vehicle, when you pushing it, it starts to get easier and easier. And the white behind it makes it even harder to stop. And that's the position you need to get to yourself. This lesson was about taking action and a really, really hope you too. 19. Committing to Change : Committing to change also means taking a chance on yourself. Let me cover off a few key tips that I can provide you at this point in the course that will help you get your habits established and get you moving to taking action. So firstly, print up your daily habits and place them where you can refer to them. What I mean by that is printing them off, putting them on your bedroom door, put them on the door door, put them laminated in the shower, place them on your dresser. You're likely to see them and see them frequently will help you to drive a schedule of daily habits. Therefore, you know what you're aiming for and it will help you keep that momentum, remain committed number to make it as easy as possible for you to maintain your daily habits. So remember that reduce the resistance factor, which is going to try and make it easy. So therefore, we can build up slowly, but have a long-term success rate. The three avoided at all costs, missing or daily habits for more than two days in a row, we need that momentum to continue. And by having more than two days off, it can disrupt that rhythm and net momentum. And number four, daily habits are the driving force to strengthen your systems to allow you to move closer towards your goals every day. But remember, you also can have bad habits that can creep in. And it has the opposite effect. You can actually drag you further away from what you want to achieve. Really distinguish between the positive habits and the negative habits. And remember that those strengthen your systems and make it, it'll allow you to achieve more every single day in many different areas of your life. 20. Project - Create Your Own Morning Habit Routine: At this stage of the course, I'd like to bring in a practical activity. We can now implement what you've been learning and to apply it to your morning routine. Now you may not have a morning routine. And this could be the ideal opportunity to think about what kinds of goals you'd like to achieve. Therefore, helping you to develop the habits. You may already have a morning routine. And this will just allow you to, to broadly, even further into structured even better. So in a moment, I'll show you through the different templates that will be attached for use as part of the course. So this is the project-based assignment. Just got the front cover. Then if we scroll down, I go through some structure habits to consider and the different steps. And I'll provide an example that is considered to be similar to the lesson are created regarding the practical side of implementing habits for walking or exercising and reading. So I've got that there. Then we've got the daily habits schedule, which is just an example. Second example here about Hagen structure it. And then you've got your template, which you can then use to fill out and to start your morning habits. And it's nice and structured that way. It's easy to follow. There's no bit of time now to start creating your morning habit routine. Implement what you've been learning and start that structure as soon as he can. 21. Thank you and Goodbye: Well, it's been an absolute pleasure to have you as a student in the course. And it's been my pleasure to be able to create this content using my knowledge and skills regarding habit development. Now there's plenty of information for you to absorb, but most importantly to take action on. Now you might be looking at changing or habits regarding your health, your wealth, your relationships, education, whatever it might be. But most importantly, as I've mentioned in a previous lesson, is to take action. Now if you've enjoyed this course, there might be other courses I've created that you can get experienced from and knowledge and information to also apply that to different parts of your life. So thanks again. I really, really appreciate you being a student and all the best for the future.