I guess many of us would admit to having at least one bad habit we might wish to stop or perhaps replace with a good habit. Those of you who have tried will know that it is not an easy thing to do. Do not despair, however, for it is possible, as a new article on the Zen Habits website shows.

The article is entitled 7 Keys to Turning Bad habits into Good habitsand it is well worth a read if you want to replace one of your bad habits.

The secret to the approach is, apparently, to identify what causes, or triggers, you bad habit and then to identify a positive habit you can do instead of the bad one. Then you need to practise the new habit while avoiding any situations that you know may be likely to bring on the bad habit.

Get someone to help or support you and remember to stay positive. It is always a good idea to get people to help you when creating changes to your self or your life, they can be there to encourage and support you in changing. Positive thinking is also important as thinking positive thoughts can help you get through times when it seems hard to continue.

Do not just take my word for it, do pop over to the Zen Habits website and read the article in more depth for yourself. You’ll find it very useful if you want to stop any of your bad habits.

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Do What You Love to Do is a well-worn phrase that is often followed by the phrase, and the money will follow. Basically it is used as a maxim by people who wish to follow their passion with little regard for money. The belief being that money will follow automatically. The problem is that it often doesn’t.

That is the argument followed in an article on the Zen Habits site in a post entitled How to Do what You Love Without Selling Your Soul. This article explores the idea of selling yourself or self promotion.

The central problem is that if you do want to do what you love and the money doesn’t follow, then you have to find a way to attract money. Thios could mean selling your soul or, on the other hand, it could mean finding a way of marketing yourself or whatever it is that you love doing.

I’d guess that few of us like marketing ourselves, many people see self promotion as akin to selfishness, arrogance and even pomposity. This article argues that we need to lose such feelings.

The article goes on the explore the concept of authentic marketing as a means of promoting yourself and the value you offer others while also increasing your own knowledge and skills.

Do take time to read the article, it is well worth the time, particularly if you have the desire to do what you love doing and hope to make it a living.

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The Zen Habits blog has a post today about motivation and how to stay motivated to achieve your goals.

The post claims there are just two secrets to maintaining your motivation; make things enjoyable and use positive public pressure. I guess a person’s first response to reading this might be to say that some things aren’t always enjoyable but you have to do them in order to reach your goal. Also, not many of us, of course, are in the public eye as much as the author; so how could we use public pressure?

Well, the answers to these questions are in the post, so I’d suggest you pop over there and read it. I’ll simply give you clues here by saying that the public pressure could come from anybody – family, friends, neighbors, co-workers not just the public at large. As for making things enjoyable, well the author claims this is an alternative to those of us who fail to achieve goals through lack of dicipline, will-power or staying power. The author claims that it is not discipline that is required to achieve goals, it is motivation and that comes from maing things enjoyable.

All in all, this is a very thoughtful post and one which could help you if you have trouble sticking to your goals.

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