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In today’s article, how to automate your new habits so you don’t fail. I will discuss the benefits automation has on succeeding with new habits. Also understanding why we fail with new habits along with 4 simple steps you can apply today to automate your new habits so they last.

Why Do We Fail With Succeeding With New Habits

Starting new habits is always an exciting prospect. After the excitement of preparation, the first day of the new habit is full of energy. You never feel like your going to stop this new habit forever.

Then it could be a day later or 1 month later and the newness and excitement of the habit will wear off. This is the point where new habits revert back to old habits and all the initial hard work goes back to square one.

One reason why we fail with new habits. Is that we haven’t automated the habit so we don’t have to think about doing it.

For example, when we have control of paying our bills. There is a higher chance they won’t be paid on time. When they’re automated via a direct debit that’s set up in advance. The likelihood of the habit of succeeding increases.

So instead of allowing ourselves to makes excuses, procrastinate or get distracted. Learning to automate habits helps lock them in for the long term.

Why You Should Automate Your Habits

The reason why habits should be automated is so they get done. We all want our new habits to work for us. It only leaves regret and a feeling of failure if we don’t prosper with our new habits. Focussing on finding ways how we can make our habits easier to complete. Is a must that allows the habit to develop. When habits are difficult to start it can take a lot of mental effort each day. That becomes draining and a chore to do.

How To Automate Your New Habits With 4 Simple Steps

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1. One Time Actions

Finding ways to automate the new habit with one time actions is a great way to make a habit stick. For example, if you want to watch less time watching television. You can either cancel your subscriptions or remove the TV. You can use this example with any of your habits to help you stay the course.

2. Take The Easy Road To Starting New Habits

Making the new habit always easy to start allows the habit not to take up mental energy in performing.

Easy is automation best friend.

For example when I exercise I focus on a 5-minute warm-up, not the new exercise habit I want to do. When it’s writing I focus on just writing the introduction, not the whole article. This is a simple trick to always get you started.

3. Utilise Technology To Help New Habits Stick

If your new habits are to do with finance. Utilising technology is a great tool to help you with your spending habits. You can automate your expenses, set caps on spending and set up index funds that you don’t have to worry about. Whatever habit you have that can use technology to help you. Do it! As long as it doesn’t hold you back from other habits.

4. Have Accountability Partners

By working together with someone on a new habit allows the accountability of performing the habit to increase. You just have to make sure the person you are performing the habit with is reliable. If your new habit is taking up exercise or a new sport. This can be great when you are tired then the other person can hold you accountable to your new goal. Imagine David Goggin’s as your accountability partner your habits will be automated without a doubt.

Over To You

I hope you enjoyed today article, how to automate your new habits so you don’t fail.

Creating all your new habits to be automated. Will allow you to always succeed by continuing to take action with your habits.

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Hi, I’m Adam

I’ve spent over 10 years coaching and mentoring people within sport and business. I have many life skills that I have developed and I want to pass these skills on so people can find their best self. I believe it all starts in the mind and I write about valuable tools and strategies to help people grow in this area.

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In today’s article, 5 amazing tips on how to live a happier life today I will discuss the importance of why happiness is crucial to living a great life. No one in their right mind wants to be unhappy but I do understand the different challenges we all go through that can make happiness seem far away.

So I have come up with my own 5 favourite tips that have helped me become happier when times are difficult in my life. I hope my tips help you to live a happier life today.

Why Your Happiness Is Important?

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Happiness is something we all want. Some people are definitely happier than others. The question is why you should ask.

There you will find the habits they act upon every day that allows them to live that happy life. I used to believe when I was younger that happiness comes from great wealth, a supercar or being famous.

As I’ve grown older I know this is not to be the case. Of course, these things are great and can give you short term happiness but not the deep happiness we are discussing today. The very fact we see celebrities that have everything but lead unhappy lives has been a testament to that.

Internal vs External Happiness

We need to understand that happiness is not an external materialistic feeling. It’s something internal that we all crave for. The reason why it’s important? It’s because it fosters great mental health where it reduces stress, negative thoughts and negative outcomes.

We should aspire to live a life of happiness but it has to be on our terms of what we want not what society tells us we should want. There you find the happiness you deserve.

Some of the happiest people in the world can be seen living in nature away from the modern-day world which shows that going back to nature can be a major benefit in creating an environment that also makes us happy.

So I hope the tips below can help you take that step towards your internal happiness because no one can take that away from you. That’s yours to control and once you know that then all the external stuff you come in contact with can be enjoyed even more.

5 Amazing Tips On How To Live A Happier Life Today

1. Love Yourself

What leads to a happier life is loving yourself unconditionally. Because before we even think of loving someone else we need to love ourselves and be happy with the person we are today.

Growing up I was always hard on myself nitpicking every fault as being not good enough and comparing my achievements to others who were on different paths to myself.

This leads to unhappiness and took a lot out of my mental health along the way. When I realised this is not productive I changed to loving myself for who I am and what I have achieved. It was like a dark cloud that was lifted and the sunniest day you can imagine was welcomed.

Too many of us are hard on ourselves when we don’t have to be. Try loving yourself today.

2. Always Look For The Positives

I was once told an example of how the mind works. That has always stuck with me.

I was in a room where I was told to look at everything I could see. Then I was told to close my eyes. Upon opening my eyes, I had to focus on all the red objects in the room. Then close my eyes and remember as many objects as I could. I was then told the same thing again but this time it was finding everything blue. It was amazing that both times all I could see in a room full of all different colours were the colours I was told to look for.

This was a great example of how the brain works and what it focuses on is what it delivers.

This is the same for positivity and negativity. If we are always looking out for negatives in general newspapers, faults in people or our failures then we are going to lead a very unhappy life. Whereas if we do the opposite and find good news, the best in people and what we did well at and how we can improve. We are going to live a more fulfilled and happy life.

So I challenge you today to focus on positives in yourself and others and make sure you’re self-aware of what’s coming into your mind via external sources.

3. Be Grateful For Everything You Have

Wanting more out of life. Is something every human wants. We can though, get lost in always wanting the next thing in our life. Which can be a detriment to our happiness.

The constant of wanting the next big thing is a drain and it makes us feel like failures if we can’t attain it. But when you change that mindset to gratefulness the game completely changes.

Being grateful is a well-known strategy that has been spoken about in great length but it’s still an underrated tool that many people don’t apply each day. When we are grateful for what we have today it can actually help us move forward for a better tomorrow.

The major difference is our happiness and mental health is exactly where they should be. So today sit down and forget about the future and focus on the present of today of what you do have. For me I took for granted, running tap water, a home that keeps us safe and the oxygen that keeps me alive.

We have so much to be grateful for in our life we just have to make that the launchpad that propels us to progress and overall happiness.

4. Forgive Your Past

Forgiving yourself and others are crucial for happiness. When we don’t forgive we resent and this lives within us weighing us down. The longer we leave it the weight gets heavier and heavier. That’s why we need to find it within ourselves to forgive others for what they have done to us, not for them but for ourselves.

More importantly, we should forgive ourselves for any past failure mistakes we have made. It’s not worth it holding on to the past as it only destroys our present and future.

Today to unlock your happiness. Sit down and write everything you can think of about yourself and others that you haven’t forgiven and one by one start forgiving.

Release that negative emotion, cry, shout, speak to that person. whatever you need to do. Once done happiness will flow throughout you. I did this myself and it was literally like a weight off my back.

5. Surround Yourself With Happiness

What stops anyone from being happy is the environment we surround ourselves in. We have people who bring us down or we live somewhere where we don’t feel safe. This can affect your happiness greatly.

That’s why it’s your duty to have people in your life that make you happy and lift you up. Live in a home you love and live in an area you feel safe in.

Make it your duty today to write down a list of what makes you unhappy about the external forces in your life. Then right next to it a solution to change it. Now go all in to have a life where you are surrounded by happiness.

Over To You

I hope you enjoyed today’s article, 5 amazing tips on how to live a happier life today.

I enjoyed writing this article and has given me great happiness passing this on to you.

If you feel someone in your life needs this. Please share anyway you can and pass on happiness.

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