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Create One Great Habit a Month and Have a Great Year
Here’s how to get started.
You don’t need to have 100 good habits to improve your life. Just 12 habits are plenty to turn your life around completely.
Of course, it’s important to choose effective habits. The proper habits put your success on autopilot. If you’re doing the right things each day, good things happen. It’s as inevitable as gravity.
Use this process to enhance your life one habit at a time:
1. Know your goals. Without knowing your goals, you can’t choose the best habits to add to your life. The best practices support your goals and make them much more likely to come to fruition. Make a list of your goals and prioritize them.
2. Make a list of all the habits that would aid in reaching those goals. Take a look at your most important goals and consider all the practices that would help you to achieve those goals. List every possible habit you can think of, no matter how small it might be. We’re not judging them yet, so list them all.
3. Prioritize those habits. Some habits are far more effective than others. Take your list of habits and put them in order from most effective to least. Take as much time to do this as you need. Be honest with yourself. The most effective actions are often the least…
