Build the right habits if you want success

Whilst checking out piles of books this last weekend as part of my weekly research for our regular Essential Reads book reviews, I flicked through a copy of Brian Tracy’s Million Dollar Habits, a really interesting read. The premise of the book is that 95 percent of everything you think, feel, do, and achieve is the result of habit - and that success in business and in life comes as a result of developing the right habits each day, and importantly, losing the bad habits. According to the experts, it takes about 21 days to form a habit and to incorporate it into your daily life. So, if you want to build habits that will help keep you on track and to develop a roadmap for success, then it all starts with making a clear decision to change your mindset. Tell those around you that you are going to be practicing a new set of habits, it will help you to become more disciplined in implementing them. Visualize yourself performing those habits each day and they will become second nature, and create an affirmation associated with each habit to increase the speed at which they become unconscious actions. You will be amazed at just how quickly you can change the bad habits of a lifetime that may have been holding you back in business and in life.