Habit Change Tricks and Tips

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Over the past two weeks here at Success Begins Today, we have talked about the new science of habit change and how habits actually work. It has been a fun romp though Charles Duhigg’s great book, The Power of Habit. I’ve included a list of our posts with helpful links to habit related resources, including [...]

What Do You Want?

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I was talking on the phone last night to a small group of people in a mastermind group. The question of the evening was, What is holding you back? It was an interesting question. Most of the people in the group are looking for greater success in 2012, in their business or personal lives. During [...]

How To Get What You Want

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One of my favorite personal development concepts is an easy to remember acronym that I learned from author, Nicholas Boothman. It is simple and easy to remember. Know what you want Find out what you are getting Change what you do until you get what you want. The three sentences spell out KFC. Every time [...]

How To Finally Get Things Done!

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I want to come clean and be real honest with you. I struggle with to-do lists, productivity programs, and time management plans. While all these tools are great, at the end of the day, I feel like a failure more often than not. It’s not that I don’t try hard, but distractions get in the [...]

The Habit Change Worksheet

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Yesterday we talked about habit change and some ways to change a bad habit into a good one. We found that the golden rule of habit change was to keep the old cue, and the old reward, but change the routine. I decided to come up with a habit change worksheet, to list out a [...]

How To Change a Bad Habit Into a Good One

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In our continuing series on habit change, I would like to share with you today what is known as “The Golden Rule of Habit Change.” It simply consists of this… To change a habit, you simply keep the old cue, and the old reward, but change the routine. Almost any habit can be changed if [...]