Could You Win with Habit Goals?

Have you ever wanted to give up on your goals? Have you ever felt like it’s too late to make progress on your goals? It’s not.

Whether you’ve tried to achieve a goal a few times or dozens of times, you can always begin again with a different strategy.

Are you familiar with the term “habit goals”? Habit goals are the individual habits that you need to install to reach your goals. Here are two examples of habit goals:

Let’s say you want to declutter your home. Some habit goals could be:
1. Not going to garage sales or into thrift stores;
2. Spending 15 minutes a day to learn a decluttering process
3. Spending 15 minutes a day to visualize how your home will look when you’ve completed the decluttering process

So instead of focusing on the big goal of decluttering your home, you would focus on installing the habits that would allow you to declutter your home. Make sense?

What if your goal is to lose weight?

If your goal is to lose 20 pounds, you will probably need to change your eating habits, get more exercise, and maybe get more sleep. Let’s turn the weight loss goal into a few habit goals:

1. Exercising for 180 minutes every week;
2. Drinking 7 glasses of water a day;
3. Sleeping 7.5 hours every night;
4. Limiting pastries, candy and other empty calories to one a week;
5. Eating 5-7 servings of fruits and veggies a day.

When you establish habit goals, you’re putting the infrastructure in place to start strong and maintain the progress for a long time.

Whether you’re reading this on January 1st, June 30th or December 31st, you can break your major goal down into habit goals and install the habits that will lead to success.