Changing Habits

Filed in archive Personal Development on April 16, 2008

We have talked about changing habits in order to make you more successful in starting your business. However, what we have not discussed is some of the things you should avoid when trying to change those bad habits.

© debaird

The Zen Habits blog has 13 things to avoid when trying to change habits.

The first one is a biggie and that is not trying to change two habits at once. I have tried to do this a couple of times and it just doesn't work. When trying to do something like change a habit you need all your focus on one at a time.

Number two is something we have talked about when setting goals and that is not committing things to paper. As I have said before, by not writing goals on paper makes them nothing but New Years resolutions and the same thing applies to changing a habit. If you do not write them down, you are going to loose focus and will not change that habit.

Another important aspect of changing a habit is having support. You need someone to be behind your changes and to push you along. Not only does this give you support, it also has someone holding you're responsible for achieving your goal and changing that habit.

Take a look at the Zen Habits blog to get the full listing.