Add the Best; Drop the Worst

When you realize that you have many bad or mediocre habits that are holding you back in life, you may start to feel overwhelmed. Where should you begin? Should you upgrade your health habits? Attempt a 30-day supertrial? Commit to working an hour a day on your online business? Here’s a simple heuristic that will help you identify which habits to change first: Add the best. Drop the worst. Let’s start with the first part. Can you identify some of the absolute best habits you could add to your life, such that if you maintained these habits every day for the next 20 years, it would make a huge difference in your results? Go ahead and brainstorm a few ideas. Jot them down. You don’t need a lot — a small handful of ideas is fine. Now is there a certain idea that pops out at you? It may be on your short list, or you may come up with a new idea. This is probably an idea that you fear, at least a little, but it will also be the idea that excites you the most when you think about the long-term results. If you added this one habit to your life and truly mastered it, it would trump all the others. If you could only install one new permanent habit, this would be it. What is it? And don’t give me that “I don’t know” crap. If you don’t know, then put your brain to the task and figure it out. Of course you can’t really know which single habit is the absolute best. You don’t know what the future will bring, so you can’t ...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tags: Balance Personal Development Productivity Self-Discipline Success Time Management Source Type: blogs