Category Archives: motivation

How to be successful

Define the purpose

  • What to achieve in life, this week, today
  • Set measurable goals with time to achieve them
  • Make the goals huge. Have huge impact to as many as people possible

Exit comfort zone

  • We dont take action due to fear
  • Define the fear and take action to overcome
  • Push the limit. Get out of your comfort zone

Focus

  • Focus on what to do to achieve goal
  • Forget the rest

Consistent

  • Make a schedule and follow (discipline)
  • Involve others to commit. Trainer, team members, best friends, spouse
  • Stack new habits over existing habits
  • Embrace progress. Fall in love with actions. Result most of the time can’t be seen in short time

Atomic Habit

Summary from atomic habit book that I’ve read.

  1. Focus on process/system/activities instead of goals or results. You will get the result soon without you aware.
  2. To make a new habit, make the cue visible, the bait attractive, the process to do it easy and the reward satisfying.
  3. Habit stack – try to make a new habit on top of existing habit. For example, to read Quran everytime after solat.
  4. Create an environment or surrounding that will help to form a good habit. Much better than motivation. It’s the “visible cue” that matters.
  5. The seductive pull of social norms – people closest to us, majority around us or imitating the powerful/success people/icon. (pg .115)
  6. Peer pressure – if everyone is doing one activity, we’ll also most likely to follow. So find the right peers.
  7. The closer we are to someone, the more likely we are to imitate some of their habits (pg. 116)