Can A Good Habit Increase Your Income?

Can a good habit increase your income?  What if the habit is recording a 5 minute video everyday for your customers?  What if it’s writing a blog post everyday giving your business partners  the latest news in your industry?  What if it’s practicing Mark Hoverson’s direct response marketing? 

Good Habits Can Increase Your Income & Quality of Life

All the learning and studying in the world won’t build your business or improve your life if you don’t have habits in place to implement what you’re learning.

I’ve been studying habits lately and become more and more of a “habit advocate”.  I’ve noticed that we all have habits regardless of whether they’re good, bad, or neutral.  We already have routines and things that we do the same every day–in the same order, thinking the same thoughts, getting the same results, day after day after day.

If you substitute a current habit that isn’t serving you with a good habit that will move you forward, it can become your new way of life.  Yes, it’s hard in the beginning, but after 30 days, 60 at the most, it becomes part of your life and you do it without even thinking about it.

Habits Become Automatic & Effortless

Think about something that seems really hard now, like writing an article every day, exercising every day, writing a blog post every day, shooting a video every day, eating more vegetables every day.   If you took the discipline to do it every day for 30 days, to incorporate that in your life, you would do it automatically without even thinking.  That good habit would be part of your life.

You wouldn’t even have to think about it.  Wouldn’t that be amazing?  Would that serve you well?  It’s huge!

• Getting up early in the morning
• Eating dinner with your family
• Reading 10 minutes a day
• Watching less tv
• Drinking less soda
• Spending time with your kids, parents, family

…all those things are good habits and can become an effortless part of your life.

It’s not easy to build a good habit.  Think about New Year’s resolutions.  It’s easy the first day.  The first day you start that new resolution you’re gung ho, you’re excited you do it.  Maybe even for the next couple days.

Then something gets in your way and you think, “I’ll just miss this one day.  It’s no big deal.”  Then the next day it’s a little bit harder.  You start finding excuses and reasons why it won’t work.  Then you do it really sporadically.  By the end of the month, you’re not really doing it at all.  Probably you’re just feeling guilty because you’re not doing it!

Willpower Required to Build a New Habit

The first week and first month are critical to building a good habit. If you can muster the willpower to do it every day for a week, then 2 weeks,  then 3 weeks, and then 4 weeks, it will get a lot easier.  But you have to muster that will power every day to do that one thing.  Then… the outcome, the reward is that it will be part of your life.

Learning Mark Hoverson’s killer direct response marketing,  learning how to write an article that gets clicks or write a powerful sales letter…none of that will do you any good if you don’t have a good habit in place to use what you’re learning, to use your knowledge.  If it’s just knowledge, it will go in one ear and out the other.  You’ll think about it for a couple weeks and then it will be gone.

Set up a good habit now to put new knowledge into action, whether it’s writing for 10 minutes every morning, setting a work schedule you commit to, or whatever will help you put the knowledge into action.  Set up something so you can take what you’re learning from Mark and in this group and use it, do it and make it a habit.

Make it part of your life and then it has the power to change your life. I know Mark’s material has the power to change lives, but the people that are going to see life-changing results are the people that implement and not just once, but every day.

Please share questions and comments below about your good habit strategies!

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