Do you wish you could create new habits but always have trouble following through or keeping them? Do you find yourself at the end of January and having already fallen off the new year’s resolutions band wagon? I know I fall in this category. However, over the past few months, I have started scheduling things that I want to do, habits I want to create, and I am more likely to follow through with them. So this post is going to try and show you how I have been creating new habits and sticking with them.

The first step will be to make a list of all the habits you want to create. Whether big or small, write them down. You can’t do them all at once, but brain dump them onto paper gives you a starting place.

Let me first start by sharing with you a few of the habits I am wanting to create and keep. I also want to point out that this is a journey, because I have not mastered this yet, but I am working towards it.

1. exercise daily
2. drink water
3. eat healthy

Once I have a list of the habits I want to create, I add them to my calendar/schedule or you can use a habit tracker(which I love also). So for instance, in my calendar, I write exercise, drink water, book I am reading and the number of pages I need to read in order to read one book a week so I can do a book review, and then I write out my daily menu of things I want to eat to keep making healthy choices. All of these things I do everyday, and I schedule them into my day.

The main point of this practice is to do it everyday. The goal/habit is consistency in whatever habit you are wanting to create.

I use a habit tracker everyday that I have made with a dot notebook, I also write down my schedule in a composition book, along with using a calendar. My schedule I write down is the most important. I like to keep track of exercises I do, books I read, podcasts I’ve listened to, my daily menu, and other items surrounding the building of Sweenolia.

Some of the practices I do are receptive, but having my schedule thoroughly organized is what keeps me on task and keeps me consistently (or at least trying)working on my habits.

So schedule your habits. Write them in your calendar. If it is a habit that is important to you, or will help move the needle, then scheduling is vital. Utilize this tactic and watch your habit development soar. You will have something to look back on that is measurable, and shows you how far you have came.

Let me know in the comments if you find this helpful. So far I can say this is working for me, but what works for one person, may not work for the other. Share in the comments what you are doing to try to be consistent in your habits.