In order to make change happen in your life you need to be really focus on the change. You need to be focused a long time. There is a lot of articles about making new habbits stick quickly, but I believe those studies are more or less unreliable. I also believe that in order to change your habbits you need to know why you're doing that. That is the only way to stay motivated and that's where goals come into play.
If you have a goal you need to have habits that will get you closer to your goal. If you want to lose weight you need to form many new habits: eat healthier, sleep better, exercise more etc. It's easy to do that for the first week or two, but it gets more and more difficult to stick to the new habits as time goes by. That is if you don't have a clear goal in mind (I want to lose 3 kg in this month). When you wake up just say to yourself why you want to form this new habit, what is my goal. Only way to reach goals is to change your habits, and to change your habits you need a goal that motivates you.
Most of us have some kind of target setting procedure at our work. It can be goals for the quarter or for a year and they are of varying quality. Not every goal that I've had during my career has been SMART (Specific, Measurable, Action oriented, Realistic and Time based). Far from it to be honest. But how is it with rest of our lifes? Do you have financial goals in your life, do you have goals for your family, your social life?
Zig Ziglar has created a Wheel of Life and he encourages us to create goals for seven different areas of our life: Career, Financial, Spiritual, Physical, Intellectual, Family and Social. So pick area of your life and spend some time thinking what you want to archive in that during this year. Then thing what habits needs to be changed or started and start pushing yourself towards more prosperous and fun life. Good luck for your journey.
