![]() This can be done by designing your environment for the habit to take place. One way to increase the chances of your desired habit occurring is to make it obvious. Changing your behaviour starts with awareness – you can’t change something that you don’t know is wrong! We’ve come across this a lot in badminton – when you’ve played a shot with the ‘wrong’ technique 1000 times, you don’t realise anymore that it’s wrong. If you’ve done something 1000 times then you are less likely to know you’re doing it. The 1st Law – Make It Obviousįirstly, you need to look at your current habits. The book introduces 4 laws of creating a habit: cue (make it obvious), craving (make it attractive), response (make it easy) and reward (make it satisfying). The most effective way to change your habits is to focus not on what you want to achieve, but on who you wish to become. If you want to become world number one in Mens Singles, ask yourself “what would Kento Momota or Viktor Axelsen do?” Would Viktor skip this training session because he is a little tired or wants to go to the cinema with his friends?Įverything you do, ask yourself “am I becoming the type of person I want to become?” the goal is not to win a badminton match, the goal is to become a badminton player).īut what happens if you’re stuck in the identity of “I’m never going to be good enough to become a badminton player”? You need to change your identity by deciding the type of person you want to be – what do you want to stand for? What are your values? Who do you want to become? To actually create habits, they need to become part of who you are (e.g. Ultimately, it is your commitment to the process that will determine your progress.īadminton example: if you spend too much time dreaming of winning the Olympics, but only training 5 hours per week because you’re too lazy to do the other 25 hours, then your progress will never take you towards the goal of the Olympics. ![]() Problems arise when you spend too much time thinking about your goals, and not enough time designing your system to achieve the goals. Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress. The “valley of disappointment” is why we should focus on the system or process, and not the goals or outcome. They then fall back into the old ways, and not improving the life that they envisioned that led to creating that habit in the first place. However, people (and we are all subject to this), don’t see results quick enough so they stop implementing these good habits. Once you make this into a habit, you can then focus more on your placement, opponent and 3rd shot. Badminton example: working on creating the habit of your serving process will require a lot of thinking in the beginning. ![]() ![]() The more we can make habits require no thinking, the more we can focus on other things. Making something a habit over the long-term means that you do it without even thinking, such as brushing your teeth every morning. Making a choice that is 1% better or 1% worse seems insignificant in the moment, but over the span of moments that make up a lifetime these choices determine the difference between who you are and who you could be. Missing once is an accident, missing twice is the start of a new habit.
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