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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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In today’s article, 5 ways to manage your willpower battery for success will go into more depth about where willpower comes from and how to make willpower work to benefit us rather than let it deplete where we give in into temptation we may later regret.

What Is Willpower?

According to most psychological scientists, willpower can be defined as the ability to delay gratification, resisting short-term temptations in order to meet long-term goals. The capacity to override an unwanted thought, feeling, or impulse.

Where Does Willpower Come From?

Kelly McGonigal, PhD and author of The Willpower Instinct says willpower is a response that comes from both the brain and the body. The willpower response is a reaction to an internal conflict. You want to do one thing, such as smoke a cigarette or supersize your lunch, but know you shouldn’t.

5 Ways To Manage Your Willpower Battery For Success

1. What Should We Automate

Automating is an amazing concept that can help with our willpower battery. We can now automate our finances to prevent us from going into debt and also building our retirement fund. By automating our bills and Index funds.

Not only that but we can automate a lot of things that drain our willpower battery so we can focus on what’s most important to us in our life. This could be using a laundry app that can clean and iron all your clothes for you or hiring an assistant for the generic tasks you don’t want to put energy into.

Look at your life and see what drains your willpower and whether you could fix it by automating it.

2 .Get Rid Of Anything Unimportant That Depletes Willpower

There are so many things around us that deplete our willpower battery. Imagine waking up feeling good, ready to win your day. Then you open your email box, put the news on, go on social media and then bit by bit your willpower and your mood slowly changes. The feeling of win your day can still be there but it’s taken a big chunk already and by noon you could be fully drained.

That’s why it’s important to manage what you read, listen to and watch because the draining of the negatives in our life will cause willpower depletion.

Why is it that some people are motivated full of energy throughout the day and others are not? It’s because some people are conserving their willpower and others are depleting it before they get out the front door.

3. Be One With Your Feelings

What can deplete your willpower battery fast is losing control of your emotions or letting them control us. When there is stress in your life what do you turn to? Is it chocolate, smoking or an ex?

When willpower depletes we are more susceptible to things in our life we don’t really want to do and will later regret. In kelly Mcdonigual book Willpower Instinct. Studies have shown that when you feel any kind of feeling be conscious of it and don’t hold it back but let it quickly flow through you. You then say to yourself this feeling will soon pass and I choose not to do it today.

When we hold off negative emotions it quickly saps all our willpower strength but letting it pass through and dealing with it. Our willpower can be sustained.

4. Be Well Rested

When you’re tired at night have you ever been susceptible to temptation? I know I have with the lure of chocolate.

The same goes for when we wake up after a lack of sleep too. You might not see at first but sooner or later you will become tired quicker and temptations will come towards you thick and fast. That’s why it’s important for your willpower battery to well-rested between 6 and 8 hours following your 90-minute rhythmic cycles.

Within the Willpower Instinct, Kelly McGonigal also cites that “Sleep deprivation (even just getting less than six hours a night) is a kind of chronic stress that impairs how the body and brain use energy. The prefrontal cortex is especially hard hit and it loses control over the regions of the brain that create cravings and the stress response.”

So sleep is an important part of your willpower battery throughout the day.

There is a simple experiment to find out. Just focus on yourself or people around you and notice the difference between getting 4 hours of sleep compared to 8 hours. Watch out for changes in cravings and breaking of habits. You will be surprised at what you see.

5. Be prepared

Similar to automating.

Being prepared each day with your intention, to-do list and schedule.

Helps the brain order the priority of the day.

It allows your brain not to get overloaded with what to do. But allows the brain to focus on the productivity part of the day.

I do this myself. What really helps when writing for a blog post is planning everything in advance. So when I sit down to write I have my title, keywords, headings and research already prepared. So when I’m writing my mind feels a lot more focused and less drained. Whereas it would be drained if I had to do it all at the same time.

We have all heard the stories about Mark Zuckerberg who wore the same style of clothes every day. So he doesn’t have to think and drain his willpower thinking about unproductive energy depletion. Prepare your day, your week even your year to free up space for being more productive. This will keep your willpower battery full for longer.

Over To You

I hope you enjoyed today’s article, 5 ways to manage your willpower battery for success

We all have a willpower battery and when we manage it well with the strategies stated above. Our productivity levels go up as well as sticking to habits more easily too.

If you have any other strategies that work well for you please comment below!

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