inner truth: Habits Always Deliver Results

You are an accumulation of your habits. From how you get out of bed, how you shower, how you dress, how you walk, sit, and talk, how you respond to the world, how you act in front of others, and how you think; you’re living out your habits. Habits are necessary.

They free up your mind so you can concentrate on how to survive day to day. Unfortunately, habits can also keep you locked in self-destructive patterns, which will limit your success. Is there something you want to accomplish in life that requires you to up-level your game? Whatever it is that you want to achieve, you will need to drop those bad habits that lead to a dead-end and develop new ones that are in alignment with the life you want to live.

Imagine what your life would be like if you ate healthy meals, exercised and got enough sleep? What if you saved your money, stopped using credit cards and paid cash for everything? What if you stopped procrastinating, overcame your fears, and began networking with people in your field? Would your life be different? I bet it would!

Write down some productive habits you could adopt and visualize in your life. Step two is to ‘act as if’ you were living these new habits right now!

Just developing four new habits a year will dramatically shift your life to be more in line with your vision. And the more in line it becomes, the easier the other habits are to replace because your perspective is shifting and you can see more clearly how your old habits aren’t serving you anymore.

The author is America’s #1 Success Coach, founder of the book brand Chicken Soup for the Soul®