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The Beginner’s Guide
6 Steps to Building Good Habits
How to Use Habits to Create the Life You Want
Habits really are, in my opinion, the quickest, most sustainable way to get the results you want. I used to be the person who didn’t believe habits worked, I used to think they were a quick way to make life as boring as possible.
The result was that I had a scattergun approach to life. Instead of trying to do things little and often, I would work very intensely at something (24 hours in a weekend-type intense) and then I would forget about it for two weeks.
What resulted was conquering the square root of nothing. I would forget the projects I started and revisit them a few weeks later not knowing what I was trying to achieve. The upshot of it all was being firmly where I started, just four months down the line.
“You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.” John C. Maxwell
What I quickly realised is that habits were the quickest, most sustainable way to get the results I wanted. In short, I wanted to start exercising more. I also wanted to start something on the side of my…
