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“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”
- Warren Buffet

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If you’re like most people, you have a New Year’s resolution in place and you may have even stuck to it so far this year.  Good for you!  Realistically though, you’re going to fail. How long have you said you really should get in shape, or lamented the need for  more quality time with family and friends?  The fact is, despite the most earnest commitment, resolutions just don’t work.

We make well-intentioned goals, with the false belief that we just lack commitment and motivation; that all we need is a good kick in the ass to get us going.  This couldn’t be farther from the truth, so please stop being so hard on yourself. There are better ways to achieve your full potential, with minimal headache.

First, realize that the key to success at pretty much everything comes down to creating productive habits.  A habit is defined as a behavior that happens almost involuntarily.  I define a“productive habit” as a behavior that gets you what you want in life automatically, without you really trying.

But productive habits don’t just appear out of thin air.  They are created by assembling a chain of individual behaviors, like a string of pearls.  These individual behaviors, over time,change our daily actions and in turn, our lives.  Productive habits move us to our full potential, morph us into the people we want to become, and ultimately give us the life we want.