Make a decision.Decide clearly that you are going to begin acting in a specific way 100% at the time whenever that behavior is required.Do what you want to become your habit by doing it repeatedly until it becomes automatic.- Never allow an exception to your new habit pattern during the formative stages.Don’t make excuses or rationalizations.
- Tell others that you are going to begin practicing a particular behavior.You will become more discipline and determined when you know that others are watching you to see if you have the will power to follow through on your resolution,
- Visualize yourself performing or behaving in a particular way in a particular situation.The more often you visualize,imagine yourself acting as if you already had the new habit,the more rapidly this new behavior will be accepted by your subconscious mind and be programmed in as a permitted part of your character and personality.
- Create an affirmation that you repeat over and over to yourself.This repetition of a command to your subconscious mind dramatically increases the speed at which you develop the new habit.~For example say something like : I get up and get going immediately at 6 a.m. each morning.Repeat these words as the last thing before you fall asleep.In most cases you will automatically wake up minutes before the alarm goes off.And soon you’ll need no alarm clock at all!
- Resolve to persist in a new behavior until it is so automatic and easy,that you actually feel uncomfortable when you do not do what you decide to do.
- And the last,perhaps the most important!Give yourself a reward of some kind for practicing the new behavior.Each time you reward yourself reinform and reinforce that behavior.Soon you begin to associate at an uncoscious 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 a result in engaging in that behavior or habit that you’ve decided upon.