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Habits - How do you create a habit?

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1. A new habit should be healthy and powerful, and in line with your goals & vision. Name the habit!
2. List the benefits of the new habit!
3. Make a realistic plan!
4. Anticipate obstacles. What is your strategy to overcome them?
5. Get support & make yourself accountable. List down your allies!
6. Create a (healthy) rewarding system
7. Do it. Just do it. Keep doing it. Feel the pain. Do it anyway, for 90 days! Keep rewiring your brain!
8. Push through it when it gets messy.
And it will!

YOU MUST NOT ACT ON YOUR TRIGGERS!



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• Habit tips for High-performers
• Life Purpose
• Vision & Mission – Vision statement
• Vision & Mission – Mission statement

Habits - Why it is smart to create a habit?

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Habits help us to move from good intention to getting things done.

Why creating habit?

By nature, we are lazy. When we are stressed, we create an emotional override: It must feel good right now, and it does not have to make sense!

Creating a habit or a routine is the antidote to the emotional override! It creates a new default position in our brains. Once implemented, it will be harder not to do it than to do it.

Our entire body craves for habits. We all know the craving, longing, desire for the bad habits in our life… same effect can be created for good ones!

Keep in mind: Failing to keep a promise to ourselves is hard on our self-esteem. Therefore, a lot of people prefer not to create habits. We cannot fail on things we don’t do!


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• How we create healthy habits!
• Habit tips for High-performers
• Life Purpose
• Vision & Mission – Vision statement
• Vision & Mission – Mission statement

THE BOLDHEAD APPROACH TO GOAL SETTING

Mastery & Leadership
“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.” Clive Staples Lewis

Self-Mastery:
SOUL (energy) – MIND (rational) – HEART (emotional) – BODY (intuitive)
When we have our EGO in check, our higher self can be in control of the whole system guiding us gently towards our dreams. The key to our self-mastery is growing and nurturing soul, mind, heart and body - perfectly balancing the system.

“Leadership = passion, people and principles.” Robin Sharma

Leadership Excellence:
Creating our individual authentic leadership model based on our values, principles and talents to develop our strengths to inspire, influence and making a positive difference in and to the world.

Set self-mastery goals
“Most powerful is he who has himself in power.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca
How do you nurture, develop and grow in the most healthy and balanced way:
- your heart?
- your brain?
- your body?
- your soul?
Don’t aim for perfection; aim for the perfect balance!

Set leadership goals
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” John F. Kennedy

(1) Making a positive difference
What positive impact do you (want to) create in the world?
(2) Strengths & weaknesses
How do you nurture, develop and grow your strengths and how do you manage your weaknesses?
(3) Authentic leadership
Looking at your authentic leadership style, what are the 2 most significant traits you need to work on?
(4) Life Balance
Looking at the wheel of life, what are the top 2 areas you need to take care of? And how?

Life purpose, vision & mission alignment
Make sure your goals and habits area aligned with your vision, mission and life purpose!

Follow the 5-Step approach!


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• The World’s goals
• The plan-do-be approach – carefree living
• Why it is smart to create a habit to achieve our goals!
• How we create healthy habits!

Goal setting – 6 STEP-APPROACH TO GOAL SETTING

We don’t have to be happy all the time.
Walking towards a meaningful goal knowing that our struggle is worth the pain and effort will give us a deep feeling of …
… willingness, joy and even enthusiasm!

I. List all your potential goals

II. Importance - check: The 7 x why approach
Take each goal and ask ourselves 7 times “why is this important?”
This will lead to more clarity and the driver behind the goal. Some goals will become meaningless while other more important ones may evolve and surface.
In this exercise, EMOTIONS ARE HELPFUL! Just don’t allow paralyzing emotions like fear, discourage, „I am not enough“ stand in the way to determine your true juicy, sexy and exciting goals.

III. Narrow it down!
Narrow it down with an analytical person if you can.
Which goals are
a) compelling? AND…
b) meaningful? AND…
c) sexy? AND…
d) important?
Highlight, strike through, bring them in order of priority, and get your final shortlist!

IV. 4. Find obstacles, problems, challenges.
Achieving our goals means to get to the root cause. Do this exercise with an analytical thinker.
Here, EMOTIONS ARE NOT HELPFUL. Be brutally honest with yourself, be analytical, focus on figures, data, facts!
1. What is in the way? List down all your obstacles!
2. Why is it in the way? List down the root-causes!

V. 5. Create your strategy!

If you want to win a million in the lottery (goal), play the lottery (start your journey).
Buy an annual subscription! (automate your behaviour by creating a habit)

VI. 6. Carry out a final SMARRT check


Write everything down and post it on your mirror!

NEXT:
• The Boldhead philosophy to goal setting
• The plan-do-be approach – carefree living
• Why it is smart to create a habit to achieve our goals!
• How we create healthy habits!

1.5. Goal setting – 5 WAYS TO FIND YOUR GOALS

If you want to win a million in the lottery (your goal), play the lottery (start the journey).

(1) BRAINSTORM your goals

Be child-like creative, think big, dream big – goals are our dreams’ projects!

(2) Do it LIKE THE OTHERS
The top 3 goals over the last decades was related to:

I. Family & friends – more quality time
II. Health – more fit, losing weight, eating better, sleeping better, quit smoking, drinking less
III. Money – saving more, spending less, earning more, having more clarity and getting better organized

(3) Tony Robbins’ 6 HUMAN NEEDS
Emotions drive our life! Tony Robbins has identified 6 emotional needs we all have:

I. Certainty
II. Uncertainty
III. Love & Connection
IV. Significance
V. Growth
VI. Giving back

(4) The WHEEL OF LIFE
Get a balanced approach to life balance – clarity is the key to happiness:

I. Family & Friends
II. Career
III. Personal Growth
IV. Significant Other / S*x & Romance
V. Money
VI. Physical Environment
VII. Fun & Recreation
VIII. Health

START HERE:
Take some time off, no distractions, nature is a good place, let go, start dreaming!

What are your top 2 goals in each area? What would create a radically positive change to your life?

Write them all down so you can look at them!

OR

(5) Vision & Mission – Life Purpose

This is a bit more complex, yet an excellent way to set excellent goals. Derive your goals from your Life Vision and Mission and Life Purpose!

START HERE:
Write down your vision, mission, life purpose?
Write down your list of potential goals for this year!

JUS START SOMEWHERE ...
Just start, don’t overcomplicate goal setting. There is one rule: Make some time and start!

Just jump off the cliff. Think about wings later!



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• The 6 Step Approach to goal setting
• The Boldhead philosophy to goal setting
• The plan-do-be approach – carefree living