Highly Effective Goals and Habits to Build Wealth

92% of people never achieve their goals. While that might be true for them, instead lets focus and learn from the eight percent.

Back in 350 BC, Aristotle stated “Our goal in life is to achieve happiness, which comes in two varieties: the human happiness we achieve by exercising the virtues of character, and the godlike happiness we achieve when we grasp eternal truths.“

To reach this destination, the great philosopher emphasizes the importance of education and our own personal habits. Over 2,000 years later, Psychology Today agreed “Consistent habits allow us to achieve our goals.”

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Here are the 7 lessons to help you achieve your goals:

1. Begin with the end in mind

Imagine your future and then create it. When you know what you want and create a plan to achieve it, you can work backward to what you need to do each day to succeed.

If you want to succeed at wealth, start with why and then build a budget around it.

2. Prime and cultivate your environment

Our goals rise and fall often due to our environment. Want to write, set up a writing area or designate a space in your home as the writing corner.

If you want to work out, set up a home gym area. Or simple, set aside your work out gear in the same place so you can reach it quickly. Also try not to keep snacks if that’s your vice.

Set up your environment to facilitate your desired habits means we are more likely to follow through your desired goals.

3. Reduce friction and keep it simple

Choose goals and habits that align with your life. Make it as simple as possible to form habits.

Use the “when and then” hack. Tie the work to a specify activity or time.

For example: WHEN I’m done brushing my teeth, THEN I will floss. Or WHEN I wake up, THEN I will take the dog for a walk.

4. Discipline beats Motivation? Peep the nuance

Motivation is a spark but it often fades. Discipline remain and develop over time. When you are consistent, you build your discipline. It becomes muscle memory, day in and day out.

Keep building, every day.

Don’t just take it from us. Inc. did a deep dive on why Discipline trumps Motivation.

5. Reward yourself, here and there

Set up an external reward system that keep you going.

Even the Rock has cheat meal days. When you’ve read a book every day of the work week, watch a movie on the weekend. When we reward the behavior, we’re more likely to remain committed to the behavior.

Just don’t overdo it. Too many people make the cheat day their habit. Keep it sparse.

6. Track your progress

What isn’t measured, doesn’t grow.

Create a journal and jot your notes down daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly.

Publish your results online like you share everything else. Hold yourself accountable publicly.

The more public your tracking, the more likely you’ll succeed. As a bonus, this can help you show up for others. Your goals will be better supported in a group.

When we add this level of social accountability, we increase our likelihood of persisting against challenges. Check out the 10 Best Goal Tracking Apps for 2022 (Free & Paid).

7. Start small and the Rest is Revolutionary

Do not try to achieve your goals in one step.

Make the first step as small as possible. Don’t opt to run the marathon, start with walking the block. Read a chapter per day. Exercise for fifteen minutes. Often, we will do more than we set out to do, which is the goal.

Changing and sticking to your habits will be revolutionary. If you enjoyed this short and sweet post, check out our Top 3 SMART+ER Books on Goals and Wealth.