We first make our habits, and then our habits make us – John Dryden

This blog is all about habits – and creating and keeping good, productive habits. 

What about those bad habits though? 

Habits that don’t enrich your life.  Habits that waste time and make achieving your goals more difficult. 

Habits like constantly checking email (how many successful internet marketers check their email hourly?  Not many, I’d warrant.) or constantly gravitating back to negative thought patterns or chatting with a friend online, only to notice when you say “ttfn” that an hour and half has passed?  Or playing online Scrabble (as angry as I was at Hasbro for their lawsuit against the Argwalla brothers, in a way it’s a good thing that Scrabulous is no more … I was spending waaay too much time playing Scrabble with folks all over the world.  The ics game isn’t nearly as much fun and limits me to a mere 3-4 games a week sheerly by means of its rather antiquated software)?

Will setting and keeping two new habits a week help to eliminate those habits? 

I’m not very far into my very own 2 habits a week self-help program, but so far, I’d say that it has been helpful with the second habit.  Perhaps having a more organized house and feeling better physically is helping to keep the negative thought patterns at bay. 

The email problem?  I’m still checking it too frequently.  Within the next few weeks I will have to add in a habit of checking my mail only at specified times of the day (can you tell I’m not quite ready for that one yet?). 

For the week of March 2^nd, my two new habits will be: 

1. Listening to (and documenting) motivational, self-help, empowering talk every morning at 6:00 a.m. for 30 minutes.  
2.  Studying internet marketing – whether it is a book or a program – for at least 15 minutes every weekday.

 I’ll report back to you next weekend!