Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Warren Buffet

When it comes to long-term achieving, habits are the key.

Your habits, what you do day-in and day-out is what makes you as a person. Do you force yourself to get up on time in order to run before work or to you sleep until the last minute in order to “relax”? Do you drink or eat out of frustration or do you read or do sports? Small things like that, repeated often times, make you the person you are!

It is not “The one cool project” you made years ago that makes you the person you are, it is the daily routine you have every day. Think about that and try to adjust.

The cool thing: It takes time to adjust habits, but it gets easy after a while and it is effective as hell!

As a rule of thumb one can say: Do something for 21 consecutive days and your subconscious mind gets used to it in a way that makes the task easy for you after that time period. Of course these 21 days may vary from task to task and from person to person, but just try that out for yourself.

Want to gain fitness? All right, do 10 minutes of “exercise” (Whatever suits you) daily for 21 days. Just do it and see what happens, it is like magic.

/phil