The Power of Habits for Success

[DonyaSze]

Today I had all sorts of reasons not to work towards my dream:

-Too tired
-No motivation
-Didn't believe in myself
-Didn't believe in my dream
-Depression
-Lethargic
-Defiance

But I still did work towards my goal because of 1 thing:

HABIT

It just felt right in my brain to do the work despite all the things happening with me because I had built up the habit of working on it the same time every day.

So if you really want to push past the limitations, just develop a routine to work on your project each day at the same time every day and it will be like brainwashing yourself into success.

 

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[heavy_industry]

Habits are great and momentum in life is a force to be reckoned with.

-Too tired
-No motivation

-Depression
-Lethargic
-Defiance

^ But if these are ongoing issues, I would strongly suggest that you address them immediately.

Speaking from experience, if your ship has holes in it, it will eventually sink, no matter how "mentally tough" or determined you believe yourself to be.

Patch all the holes before you take on too much water. The bottom of the ocean is already full of shipwrecks.

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Despite what most "mental health experts" believe, depression is usually not psychological in nature, and it has a lot more to do with the brain's energy metabolism and neuroinflammation.

Diet and exercise are the first things to consider when trying to fix your brain's physiology. I would recommend reading the book "Brain Energy" by Chris Palmer.

I'm really sorry that you're experiencing this.

 

[Mindsetmary]

Today I had all sorts of reasons not to work towards my dream:

-Too tired
-No motivation
-Didn't believe in myself
-Didn't believe in my dream
-Depression
-Lethargic
-Defiance

But I still did work towards my goal because of 1 thing:

HABIT

It just felt right in my brain to do the work despite all the things happening with me because I had built up the habit of working on it the same time every day.

So if you really want to push past the limitations, just develop a routine to work on your project each day at the same time every day and it will be like brainwashing yourself into success.

Habits are super important! What I tell myself when I feel that way is that I don't negotiate with my emotions but I will befriend them to better understand them.

If those emotions are persistent and I'm feeling like that consistently then what @heavy_industry mentions is absolutely on point! I would personally also do some introspection and identify what's not working right now, where am I overinvested, what am I neglecting, etc. because those emotions often tend to be a symptom of an underlying problem that is just asking for some attention.

In terms of belief, what has worked with me is constantly surrounding myself with a group of people who are much further along the entrepreneurial journey than me and who believe in me even more than I believe in myself sometimes! We are so critical of ourselves and don't always see just how far we've come because as driven high-achievers, we are so hyper-focused on the horizon and consequently the gap.

While habits, rituals, mental toughness, and resiliency can help control emotions, I have personally found that self-awareness, self-reflection, self-acceptance, and self-compassion sets them free.

 

[DonyaSze]

Habits are great and momentum in life is a force to be reckoned with.




^ But if these are ongoing issues, I would strongly suggest that you address them immediately.

Speaking from experience, if your ship has holes in it, it will eventually sink, no matter how "mentally tough" or determined you believe yourself to be.

Patch all the holes before you take on too much water. The bottom of the ocean is already full of shipwrecks.

---

Despite what most "mental health experts" believe, depression is usually not psychological in nature, and it has a lot more to do with the brain's energy metabolism and neuroinflammation.

Diet and exercise are the first things to consider when trying to fix your brain's physiology. I would recommend reading the book "Brain Energy" by Chris Palmer.

I'm really sorry that you're experiencing this.

Thanks for this! I been looking for books on the mind and how to heal the problems in my mind, because you're right, I gotta patch the holes so the ship can continue to float. I'll check out that book this morning!

Habits are super important! What I tell myself when I feel that way is that I don't negotiate with my emotions but I will befriend them to better understand them.

If those emotions are persistent and I'm feeling like that consistently then what @heavy_industry mentions is absolutely on point! I would personally also do some introspection and identify what's not working right now, where am I overinvested, what am I neglecting, etc. because those emotions often tend to be a symptom of an underlying problem that is just asking for some attention.

In terms of belief, what has worked with me is constantly surrounding myself with a group of people who are much further along the entrepreneurial journey than me and who believe in me even more than I believe in myself sometimes! We are so critical of ourselves and don't always see just how far we've come because as driven high-achievers, we are so hyper-focused on the horizon and consequently the gap.

While habits, rituals, mental toughness, and resiliency can help control emotions, I have personally found that self-awareness, self-reflection, self-acceptance, and self-compassion sets them free.

Thank you!! Yeah the reason I'm on this forum is to surround myself with people who wish to or have achieved big things already. I like to read the successful people's post and get morale boosts during breaks from work.

 

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[aureliech]

Hey Donya I agree with you 100%. Habits are super important. What habits help you go to work ?
For me, having a to do list listed by priority is a what I like best !

Peace,

 

[Panos Daras]

What strategies have you found effective for maintaining good daily habits consistently?

Could you share the methods you use to make these habits stick?

What works, for you?

 

[harumi]

What strategies have you found effective for maintaining good daily habits consistently?

Could you share the methods you use to make these habits stick?

What works, for you?

Self-love and compassion has been the strongest strategy for me.

You are creating/removing habbits with the purpose of improving - health, finances, or anything else. That is your WHY.

If YOU are doing the habit, then YOU have the full control over it. NOT the other way around!!!!

Staying flexible, making adjustments, adding creativity, whilst evolving with the habit. Sometimes I KNOW I can do the habit, but I CHOOSE not to, a little f u in the script... I later feel the consequences of my decision, but nothing more... I'm aware that me eating this burger made me lazy and slakish, but I don't hate myself for it. I'm happy that I noticed this connection. Later on this information helps me strengthen my habits.

To challenge your statement I will say: what helped me - is the power of allowing myself to do this habit inconsistently.

As an example: I completly removed sugar from my life. Do I still eat sugar? Yes.

But 2 tablespoons everyday = 14 tablespoons per week = 728 per year.

Is A LOT different to 2 tablespoons per week = 104 per year.

104 != 728, I've just made a HUGE improvement and the 'habit' is serving me well, although some people will cry and say 'that's not a habit', well what is it? You buffoon.

To sum it up - it's to break the limiting belief that to keep the 'habit' going I need to do it EVERYDAY. Wrong.

 

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[DonyaSze]

Hey Donya I agree with you 100%. Habits are super important. What habits help you go to work ?
For me, having a to do list listed by priority is a what I like best !

Peace,

For me, it all started with school, then a job. Those things created the habit of doing some progress related thing each day. (Especially having a full-time job, because I didn't actually do my schoolwork most of the time haha). Once I lost the jobs from various reasons, I still had 'job habit' in my brain so I used that to my advantage to work on my business. Now it just feels bad when I don't work on my project for some amount of time each day so I gotta work on it each day or my brain just breaks haha.

 

[Kevin88660]

I personally find habits being results of consistently doing the right things for a period of time.

But it stills takes the effort and will power to set yourself in motion in the first place.