5 Simple Tips To Bring Your Goals Into Habits

We all strive hard to attain goals that have been procrastinated for long due to some or the other distraction. We know that these goals will bring a difference in our lives, yet our efforts are not aimed in the right direction. While handling home and work, we find it very difficult to divert our focus towards achieving our goals and working on various goals simultaneously can be very exhausting.

Your goals such as exercising, jogging, making healthy food and reading positive books for a healthy lifestyle cannot realise until you don’t bring it into your habit. Yes! You heard it right. The secret behind people who successfully achieve their personal goals despite being too occupied in their work is that they are experts in turning goals into their habits. They know the secret of realising their dream goals. You must include your goals in your list of habits so that they don’t become an extra burden in your routine tasks.

As per a famous quote by Aristotle, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” When we keep some tasks in repetition, then it automatically becomes our habit and we attain excellence in attaining our goals. Turning your goal into your habit, requires you to pay immense focus on the tasks you do for its achievement for at least a month. After a month, the tasks which you repeated will become your routine habit and without focusing on the tasks, you will involuntarily finish it.

If you really know that many of your goals are not being paid the required attention then you need to read these 5 simple tips to bring your goals into habits and see how these magical autopilot system works:

1. Determine Your Short Term & Long Term Goals

Apart from your family and work, you have many other personal goals, which you need to segregate well. You must clearly note down the goals that you want to achieve in the short term and in the long term. Only then you can proceed with planning for their attainment. When you note the respective goals, ensure that you write in the order of priority. Take time in visualising your goals and how important they are in bringing a revolution in your lifestyle.

2. Design Plans For Goal Achievement

After determining your short term and long term goals, you must design your plan of action to embark upon the tasks that you need to bring into your habit. You need to precisely write down the steps to be taken in a way that you can blindly follow the guidelines. If you want to reduce your debts, then you need to amend your monthly saving and spending plans, to save money for paying off the creditors. So you must plan and find out areas where you can compromise your personal savings and expenditures and outline steps to accumulate the stipulated amount.

Similarly, if you want to reduce your weight, then you need to plan how and when you want exercise, which of the exercises you want to include in your fitness regimen and what kind of diet you will require for optimum weight loss.

3. Decide The Deadline

You cannot blindly bring goals into habit without finalising the deadline by which you want the goal to be accomplished. You must decide on the deadline for each of your goals and must allot each activity of a particular goal, a stipulated time. So if you want to pay an amount to one of your creditors, then you must know till what period you will have to compromise on your expenses and save more and more money. By saving a determined amount for a fixed time period, you will make your goal realise practically. Moreover, by setting a time period for every goal, you will challenge yourself to incorporate the tasks you want to be habitual to and will try hard to chase them.

4. Analyse The Number Of Tasks To Be Performed

When you have ascertained your goal, you need determine the number of tasks you need to perform  on regular basis. To turn your goal into habits, you must know the number of tasks and the number of repetitions required to be done on daily basis to actualise your goal. For example, if you want to have six pack abs, then 15 minutes of exercise daily will not help nor 30 minutes of workout will. You will have to undergo rigorous training by including many kinds of weight trainings and circuit trainings with squats and joggings. You will also have to know how many times a day you need to workout to get that aimed physique.

5. Focus On One Goal At A Time

If you have too many goals to be fulfilled, then proper planning is a must. You cannot endeavour to bring more than one goal into habit while leading a busy lifestyle as your routine tasks may clash with your personal goals. This will indeed mess up your routine and you will accumulate nothing but more stress. You need to keep your routine less disturbed by incorporating smaller tasks for the attainment of one goal at a time. Concentrate on incorporating one habit for a month so that you become so habitual that you won’t have to remember yourself that you need to do it. Then after one month, you can start working on your second goal and put your entire focus on the new one. You can similarly put your habits on autopilot and you will not have to keep your attention on the task completion as the goals will turn into habits that gets firmly ingrained in you.

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