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The power of Habit
by Jayant Harde Our associates have a rich corporate experience of*You Are What You Do*
Everything you are today,
or ever will be in the future, is up to you. Your life today is the sum total result of your choices, decisions and actions up to this point.
You can create your own future by changing your behaviors. You can make new choices and decisions that are more consistent with the person you want to be and the things you want to accomplish with your life.
*The Power of Habit*Perhaps the most important discovery in the fields of psychology and success is that fully 95 percent of everything that you think, feel, do and achieve is the result of habit. Beginning in childhood, you have developed a series of conditioned responses that lead you to react automatically and unthinkingly in almost every situation.
To put it simply, successful people have “success habits” and unsuccessful people do not. Successful, happy, healthy, prosperous men and women easily, automatically and consistently do and say the right things in the right way at the right time. As a result, they accomplish ten and twenty times as much as average people who have not yet learned these habits and practiced these behaviors. “Habit my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes the man himself.” (Evenus) 95 percent of everything that you think, feel, do and achieve
*The Definition of Success*People often ask me to define success, and my favorite definition is: “Success is the ability to live your life the way you want to live it, doing what you most enjoy, surrounded by people who you admire and respect.”
Ahead, you will learn how to develop the habits shared by the most successful people on the planet. Men and women who go from rags to riches in one generation. Leaders who stop at nothing. What is it that separates their success from the masses, but more importantly, how can you do the same? Read on to learn how to think more effectively, make better decisions, and take more purposeful actions than other people.
One of the most important goals you must achieve to be happy and successful in life is the development of your own character. You want to become an excellent person in every respect. You want to become the kind of person that others look up to and admire. You want to become a leader in your community, and a role model for personal excellence to all the people around you.
In each case, the decisive factors in the achievement of each of these goals that we all hold in common is the development of the specific habits that lead automatically and inevitably to the results that you want to achieve
*Make it Happen*Almost everything you are or will be will be determined by your thoughts, feelings and behaviors. The key to becoming a great person, and living a great life, is for you to develop the habits of success that lead inevitably to your achieving everything that is possible for you.
*New Habit Pattern Development*How long does it take to develop a new habit? The time period can be any length from a single second to several years. The speed of new habit pattern development is largely determined by the intensity of the emotion that accompanies the decision to begin acting in a particular way.
According to the experts, it takes about 21 days to form a habit pattern of medium complexity. By this, we mean simple habits such as getting up earlier at a specific hour, exercising each morning
before you start out, listening to audio programs in your car, going to bed at a certain hour, being punctual for appointments, planning every day in advance, starting with your most important tasks each day, or completing your tasks before you start something else. These are habits of medium complexity that can be quite easily developed in 14-21 days through practice and repetition.
*Seven Steps to a New Habit*How do you develop a new habit? Over the years, a simple, powerful, proven seven-step methodology has been determined for new habit development. It is very much like a recipe for preparing a dish in the kitchen. You can use it to develop any habit that you desire. With practice, you will find it easier and easier to develop the habits that you want to incorporate into your personality.
*1. First, make a decision.*Deciding what habit will make the biggest impact on your success is crucial. Don’t confuse urgent tasks with important ones. Your inbox will always be full, so schedule time for the items that truly will take you to the next level so they don’t get overlooked by daily email or “kitchen fires.”
Later we will discuss specific habits that lead to success, but everyone is unique. Be sure to make a list of all of the habits you feel can make an impact on your goals, then prioritize them.
Whatever your goal is, decide clearly that you are going to begin acting in a specific way 100 percent of the time, whenever that that behavior is required. For example, if you decide to rise early and exercise each morning, set your clock for a specific time, and when the alarm goes off, immediately get up, put on your exercise clothes and begin your exercise session.
*2. Second, never allow an exception to your new habit pattern during*the formative stages*Exceptions are the root of all new habit demise. It’s easy to rationalize exceptions when they seem isolated. Important interruptions come in many forms such as unexpected visitors, technical malfunctions or simply a late night out. If you let one exception creep into your plan, it becomes easy to let another slip by, and soon your whole goal is derailed. Commit to the goal without exception.
Don’t make excuses or rationalizations. Don’t let yourself off the hook. If you resolve to get up at 6:00 a.m. each morning, discipline yourself to get up at 6:00 a.m., every single morning until this becomes automatic.
*3. Third, tell others that you are going to begin practicing a particular behavior.*It is amazing how much more disciplined and determined you will become when you know that others are watching you to see if you have the willpower to follow through on your resolution.
It’s easier to allow exceptions or deviations from your goal when you are the only when that knows. If you have to announce partial failure or explain something to others in a public fashion, stretching the truth is suddenly not an option.
Tell one, tell all. You also will become more likely to stay on track with the support of those who want to see you succeed.
*4. Fourth, visualize yourself performing or behaving in a particular*way in a particular situation.*The more often you visualize and imagine yourself acting as if you already had the new habit, the more rapidly this new behavior will be accepted by your subconscious mind and become automatic.
The same muscles are activated whether you are physically or mentally imagining a task: this means you actually derive the benefits of practice in both situations. This even applies to physical behaviors like golf or dance.
You can bridle your fears in your visualizations before you venture out into the real world. By visualizing, you also allow yourself to problem solve for expected obstacles and be ready for them when they happen in reality.
*5. Fifth, create an affirmation that you repeat over and over to yourself.*This repetition dramatically increases the speed at which you develop the new habit. For example, you can say something like; “I get up and get going immediately at 6:00 a.m. each morning!” Repeat these words the last thing before you fall asleep. In most cases, you will automatically wake up minutes before the alarm clock goes off, and soon you will need no alarm clock at all.
It’s true that what you focus on grows. Simply filling your mind with more of what you want to achieve is an undeniable strategy for changing your mindset. Directly and intentionally, change your thought patterns.
*6. Sixth, resolve to persist in the new behavior until it is so automatic and easy that you actually feel uncomfortable when you do not do what you have decided to do.*This is a true test of transformation. While personality is arguably inherent, anything is learnable and you can change any behavior if you are committed. Some goals take hours to change while others take years. Only you will know when you have fully embodied the change and have reached your goal. And only when you stay strong and committed to your goal will you no longer gravitate towards old, automatic behaviors, and finally reap the benefits of the new, desirable behavior.
*7. Seventh, and most important, give yourself a reward of some kind* *for practicing in the* *new behavior.*Why is this important? Each time you reward yourself, you reaffirm and reinforce the behavior. Soon you begin to associate, at an unconscious level, the pleasure of the reward with the behavior. You set up your own force field of positive consequences that you unconsciously look forward to as the result of engaging in the behavior or habit that you have decided upon.
Even if you believe you are devoted to your goals, rewarding yourself is insurance to keep you going even in face of obstacles. At minimum, it will be a fun practice that underscores the respect you deserve for your hard work.
To know more about The power of Habit, you can visit our website http://www.jayantharde.com or contact our representative at +91 712 2282029 or meet us at 51, Gurukripa, Old Sneha Nagar, Wardha Road, Nagpur – 440015
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