Direct Your Life: Part 8 Create Habits to Reach Goals

Now that you have taken the action required to move you toward your goals, the next step is to repeat the action with regularity (daily, weekly, monthly etc). You do this by creating habits to ritualize the activities you need to do, in order to reach your goals. As humans we are all creatures of habit. Think about those things you do every morning to get ready for your day: Brushing your teeth, taking a shower, getting dressed, etc. Most of us even have an order to which we do each activity.

If you do these things every day you have made a commitment to the goal of good hygiene.If you never established a routine, these tasks could require a great deal of thought and energy. The fact that you have already established the habits, makes these tasks simple and automatic. If you applied the same logic to the activities you need to perform in order to reach your goals, think about how much easier it would be to accomplish them.