Resolve to Develop New Success Habits

About 80% of your behavior is based on habits. You have work habits, relationship habits, health habits, and so on. Getting better results in your business and your life is not a result of working harder, but rather of developing new habits that move you toward your goals.

High-performance people have habits that put their success on auto-pilot. These are often small habits such as:
always returning phone calls
saying "Please" and "Thank You"
writing notes to people who matter to them
planning each day

Are your habits working for you, or against you? As you know, it takes about 28 days of daily repetition to develop a new habit. Generally, you can develop only one habit at a time. Over the course of a year, you can establish a dozen new, productive habits that will accelerate you to your goals.

Improved self-management involves developing new success habits. However, breaking old habits and learning new ones is difficult for everyone. Three keys to the acquisition of new habits are:

Launch the new habit as strongly as possible. Change your routine immediately, and announce the change to other people around you.
Don't let an exception occur until the new habit is firmly in place.
Seize the first opportunity to act on your resolution; when you delay implementation, it becomes more and more difficult to start the new habit. When you begin, expect two to four weeks of effort before the new habit seems natural.
Developing a new Success Habit each month will lead to a lifetime of abundance.

About the author:

Gary Lockwood is an experienced business coach, facilitator and speaker. He specializes in helping business professionals achieve breakthroughs in their business."





Gary@BizSuccess.com
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