Million Dollar Habits – Page 56
Seventh
, and most important,
give yourself a reward
of some kind for practicing
in the new behavior. Each time you reward yourself, you
reaffirm and reinforce the
behavior. Soon you begin to associate, at an unconscious level,
the pleasure of the
reward with the behavior. You set up your own force field of positive
consequences that you unconsciously look forward to as the result of engaging in
the behavior or habit that you have decided upon.
Overcoming Procrastination
For example, procrastination is a problem that bothers almost everyone.
Learning
to overcome it is an exercise that will pay off for you all your life. To overcome
procrastination, you can practice the seven steps described above.
First, make a decision to start in immediately on your most important task each
day. Second, never allow an exception until the habit is firmly entrenched. Third,
tell others that you are going to stop procrastinating in a particular area. Fourth,
visualize and imagine yourself starting right in on a task
and working at it non-stop
until it is complete. Fifth, repeat over and over,
“I start and work immediately on
my most important task”
Sixth, discipline yourself to
persist every day until it
becomes automatic for you to start in immediately on your top task. And seventh,
reward yourself each time you overcome procrastination and complete an
important job. Ever after, practice this process on
any new habit you want to
develop.
Make new habit pattern development a regular part of your life. Always be
working on the development of a new habit that can help you. One new habit per
