5 Dead-Simple Habits to Achieve Your Goals In 2024
Ridiculously simple shifts.
Coming to the 3rd month, does everyone remember their resolutions?
Most people forget their yearly goals closing them in a notebook.
That’s demotivating enough making you think — “things don’t work for me.”
How are you staying aligned with the promises you made on 1st January 2024?
Also, life is no less than chaos with 60,000 occurring thoughts in a day, multiple tasks, life responsibilities, and professional roles…
But the good news is, you can achieve your goals amidst this chaos.
Here are the 5 small daily habits to conquer 2024 goals and change your life the way you want:
1) Get habitual of self-criticism and others’ feedback
How often do you criticize your work?
Flipping the script from: “I’m giving my best. Still, things aren’t happening.” to “Let me see where I’m lacking.”
It creates a path of improvement.
So, I started with this new practice of critically analysing my past week’s work before writing next.
And getting feedback (calmly) on all aspects of communication, quality of the services, and professionalism is the source of massive improvement — that’s what helping me the most.
This year, I’ve received constructive suggestions from a business coach, an agency owner, and fellow creators. That was insane.
Ask for feedback, acknowledge your flaws, and work on them to make your goals true.
2) Practice your craft (Unconditionally)
It may sound basic and that’s the reason most people skip it.
Are you in the writing field? Practice writing
Are you in the design field? Practice your core offerings.
Are you in video editing field? Practice editing.
Then, notice the difference every week.
“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.”
Here’s how you can do that:
Have a system of your processes. For example, my system is:
- Specific time frames of practice — Mine is 1 hour every morning.
- Break down the process — Outlining on the weekends. Writing and editing on alternate days.
Make it smoother with the systematic approaches.
3) Be Open to ask for help
Feeling stuck?
Trying but not getting results?
Just ask. Reach out to the people who are ahead of you, and who have already gone through what you are going through.
It can be taking suggestions or getting paid sessions.
That’s a much better approach than struggling for months (or even years).
How to do that?
Be specific while approaching somebody.
Rather than saying — “I don’t know anything about this. Can you guide me?”
What idea will they get from your ‘anything’?
Say, I have problems in XYZ. Can you help me get results from XYZ?
4)Take care of yourself
What’s the worth of achieving something over the cost of your health?
While working and growing, have time for yourself. Invest time for better health.
Here’s how I do it:
- 15-minute exercise every day.
- Walk more.
- Switch off from work when there is mental exhaustion.
- Same bed and waking up time.
- Have systems and complete work in the daytime to not push myself to work late at night.
“Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.”
5) Keep monthly and biweekly goals
You achieve when you have clarity of where you are heading.
For this, I keep biweekly goals to convince myself of what I can achieve in two weeks. Analyze them every week. Amend approaches according to one-week performances. Give clarity to the mind.
And have monthly goals separately — review and analyse them every month.
That’s the easiest way to keep yourself on the track and minimize distractions.
You’re Solely Responsible
You’ll feel overwhelmed. You’ll have self-doubts. You’ll feel stuck and messed up.
That’s that part of the growth journey.
What matters is keeping aside your emotions and continuing with your actions to stay true to your words (resolutions).
Look at the calendar. Sit. Just look.
How big one year is. To achieve your goals. To change your life. To reshape yourself.
For this, embrace these 5 daily habits: Self-criticism and taking feedback, practising every day, being open to asking for help, taking care of yourself, and keeping monthly & weekly goals.
And observe results along the way as you keep going.
Do you track your process?
What helps you the most for progress?
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