Habit Creation Worksheet
Habit 1: Decisiveness
During “profit hours”, never take longer than 60 seconds to make a decision.
Anytime you take longer than 60 seconds to make a decision, suck your thumb and cry “googoogaagaa” for 1 minute. This will automatically link pain to not being decisive.
Do this for AT LEAST 17 days to make this behavior a HABIT.
Don't worry so much on results until after you've created this habit. Then you can fine tune it once being decisive becomes a habit.
Once you have mastered this habit, move onto the second habit.
Habit 2: Regimentation
Create a “morning routine”. List the first 10 things You'll do EVERY SINGLE DAY for the next 17 day.
Don't deviate from your schedule!
After 17 days, tweak it and improve upon it if you must.
Once your “morning routine” is established, create you “work routine”. List the first 5 things you'll do EVERY DAY in your internet marketing business.
Do these things every day for the next 17 days.
After 17 days, tweak it and improve upon it if desired
Continue expanding upon your routines so your “profits hours” are as machine-like and automated as possible.
Once you have mastered this habit, move onto the third habit.
Habit 3: Ignoring the Small Stuff
Come up with a list of 10 things in your business that you absolutely won't spend one iota of mental thought or conscious effort on because they simply have no effect on the results you want to achieve!
Every time you find yourself wasting any time or thought power on your list of ten things, penalize yourself! (I.E. lay on your back for a minute and say “I like to waste time, I like to waste time!”)
Avoid tinkering with those list of 10 things for 17 days. Once those 17 days are over, analyze your list and tweak it. Add things to it that you feel should be added and take away the stuff you feel shouldn't be on your list.
Over time, your list should grow so that everything that is inconsequential to your results doesn't waste any of your resources! It gets handled as quickly and simply as possible, so your resources are left for more important stuff!
Once you have mastered this habit, move onto the 4th habit.
Habit 4: Simplicity!
Create a system for organizing your tasks. Make it a system that has less than 4 components to it. If it takes you longer than 30 seconds to explain your to-do list to someone, you've done it wrong.
Create a system for organizing your reference materials. If it takes you more than a minute to think of the system you've done it wrong. Create something that's simple, easy to think up and easy to execute.
Take your business model, and write it down on a napkin. If you can't fit your business model on a napkin, you've made it too complex. Reduce it down so you can express your business model on a napkin. Then, reduce it so you can express it on a post it note.
Anytime you feel yourself becoming confused, complexed or “overwhelmed”, it means you've made something complicated. Stop and ask yourself “What is the only thing I need to be doing of now, and how can I find a simple solution for it in the next 30 seconds?”
Consciously focus on reducing EVERYTHING around you into its simplest terms for the next 17 days. Through continual practice, you will make simplicity a habit!