Creating New Habits: Free Goal Tracking Sheet
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Habits take a long time to form (and to break).
According to Dr. Maxwell Maltz (author of the bestselling book Psycho Cybernatics that talks about how we break or create new habits and the psychology behind them) it take the brain about 21 days to get used to a new habit. He goes into a lot of details about memory traces and neuropathways in his book but the point here is it takes a while to go from a “hey, I want to start doing this from now on” to “this is just second nature to me”.
This process usually takes about 21-30 days. And those 3-4 weeks can be the worst weeks of forming a new habit or starting any new thing.
You get excited in the beginning, set goals, plan stuff out and then something happens and you may start to lose focus and motivation. I talked about how to keep your focus and motivation alive in my blog post about how to make new year’s resolutions work.
One excellent way to staying on track is to use a goal tracking sheet for the new habit you want to create.
The idea is simple, just download the free goal tracking sheet, print it off, fill it out with your goals and put it somewhere that you will see everyday (like your desk). Now, for the next 21 days I want you to take a look at this sheet and put a checkmark in the box with the correct day number on it). It’s that simple.
(No, you don’t have to start your goals on a Monday, you can just ignore the days of the week on the top and follow the day number for your goals on the bottom right of each box)
It’s that simple but this little process really works in keeping you accountable and reminding you of your goal everyday!
Just give it a try. 21 days is all it takes 
Let me know how it goes.
And here’s the download link again (Just right click and click on ’save target as’ to download it). You will need a free pdf file reader like Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader to view the file.
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