Tracking Habits and Goals - Instant Gratification

Some of your goals are milestones some of them are ongoing. 

Examples of milestones

1. X amount of Money as Assets

2. Becoming VP 

3. Building a dream house

4. Starting a company 

Ongoing goals

1. I am an Athlete

2. I have pleasing personality 

Please note that ongoing goals when you get started you may not be there so you may have some milestones to achieve and then maintain once achieved 

But since most goals are long term and milestones in nature if you have a habit trackers (daily, weekly) and may be a Goal tracker monthly, Quarterly, Yearly.

When you track and put a tick on a habit or a goal you get instant gratification even though the goal is not reached you have the happiness in measuring the goal and Habit and see that the progress is happening. 

So delayed gratification is good but our evolution has put in the instinctive "instant gratification" in our genes . 

Why can't we gamify the delayed gratification goals to a series of instant gratification?

Note: Need to acknowledge that most of these ideas were crystalized as part of mindvalley and life book  

Habits that helps winning in many areas of life

 I am a life long leaner and dont have a second thought related to investing money for getting paid courses. 

Some of these investments are hit and few are misses but its ok. 

I am having a goal of a fixed amount of money for donation and may be for courses for which I don't find value I will simply feel it as donation. Its better to pay someone for more than the value they provide then just giving donation isn't it. 

I loved mindvalley all access (I have taken a break from it now should be back when they have new courses since I already consumed whatever I needed to consume)

I also completed  life book + mastery  and I should say my life is changed permanently. 

What I found in that course was there are many aspects of your life (they say 12) of which 5 is all about you

1. Health 

2. Intelligence

3. Emotion

4. Character

5. Spiritual

There are some habits which you do will check more than one aspect of life. As Jon says "A win anywhere is a win everywhere"

What if you can have daily habits which can touch many aspects. 

Couple of examples:

If I do exercise (as a person who never did exercise previously) it checks my 

1. Health

2. Emotion - as body moves you get happy 

3. Character - it takes discipline

Similarly if I do Meditation it improves my

1. Emotion 

2. Spiritual 

If I upgrade my skill technical or non-technical it improves my intelligence and career

What is important is to bring consciousness to everything. 

If you can have a vision and you build a goal and break some of them to Habit and then if you can track it and reflect (or report it to an accountability group) then nothing can stop you from making measurable progress to the ideal vision of your life. 

This is how companies are run and some companies go bust but few great companies survive for a long time constantly reinventing themselves and check the entropy. 

Why can't we do this in our own life and have a good progress in our life vision 

Take the example of this blog. This affects the following areas of my life

1. Intelligence - my creativity and communication increases

2. Spiritual - I am giving. I am creating

3. Emotion - this makes me happy

4. Social - I am connecting with some people 

5. Finance - Either directly or indirectly I improve my skills and give value and so I should get something in return financially also 

6. Career - this may make me communicate effectively and can help me in my current career or may help me in my part-time career or my  next career 

I urge you to explore your areas of life and find a habit or a ritual which could be the highest leverage across all the areas. The best return of investment. 

Back to Blogging

 I am back 

After a long Hibernation. 

I am back to writing. 

I have an aim to publish something once a week in this blog (I also have other writing aims like being a published writer and will also work on it)