“We won’t get everything we fight for, but everything we get, it will be a fight.” – Frederick Douglas
To achieve your goals, you need strong belief and persistent action. This is very simple but of course, not easy!
The goal-achieving process begins with the habits coherent with your strategies, tactics and process. The question you should be asking yourself for each strategy is, “What habit or ritual should I engage in on a daily basis in order for me to achieve this strategy?”
This is where most people dismally fail because they want to approach the new with the old thinking and habits. This requires you to understand your habit loop and how they are formed.
A habit loop consists of three parts: trigger, routine and reward. Let me use myself as an example to clarify this point. When I woke up (trigger), I reached for my phone to check the messages and social media updates (routine) and then about an hour or so later, I would feel great about myself – a sense of achieving (reward).
Your habits are driven by your beliefs. There are two types of belief:
1. Explicit – external. This is what you claim when you are with people. This is what you tell people you’ll do. This is what people see.
2. Implicit – internal. This is what you really and honestly believe when you are alone. This is about the real stuff.
Your self-image – what you see yourself in your mind, “Am I good enough?”; “Am I deserving?” ; “Am I smart enough?” and “Am I worthy?”. This is what determines whether you’ll achieve your goal or not.
To change your life, change your beliefs. Your beliefs create your boundaries, limitations, standards and habits, period!
