Million Dollar Habits – Page 57 month will amount to twelve new habits each year, sixty new life-enhancing habit
every five years. At that rate, your life would change so profoundly that you would
become a whole new person in a very positive way.
Take It Easy On Yourself Where do you start in new habit pattern development? When people first learn
about the importance of new habit pattern development, and how positive patterns
of thought and behavior can have a wonderful effect on their lives, they often make
the mistake of resolving to develop several new habits at once. They decide to
improve in every area of their lives simultaneously. They very excitedly draw up a
list of new habits that they desire for their work, their financial lives, their business
activities, their relationships, their family, their health and their personal
organization skills. As a result, they very quickly hit a mental wall, and no
improvement takes place at all.
Here is the rule in developing new habits:
be patient with yourself . It has taken you
an entire lifetime to become the person you are. It is not possible for you to change
everything overnight. You should therefore select a single habit that you feel can
be more helpful to you at the moment than any other particular habit. Write it
down and create a positive affirmation, combined with a visual image, of yourself
acting exactly as if you already had that new habit.
You then launch immediately, and never allow an exception. Talk to yourself
positively and tell yourself that you already have this habit. Imagine yourself
behaving as though you had already learned this behavior. Tell others. Give
Million Dollar Habits – Page 58 yourself rewards and reinforcement each time you engage in the new behavior. But
only try to change one habit at a time.
