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Measure Your Habits, Not Your Outcomes
The importance of habit tracking
You’ve probably heard the phrase ‘the journey is more important than the destination’ before. But it’s not just an old saying.
It’s an insight into how focusing on our habits rather than our outcomes can help us lead happier lives.
“All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits — practical, emotional, and intellectual — systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be,” William James once observed.
There are three parts to every habit: a cue or trigger that tells your brain to do a specific behaviour, a routine that you do to satisfy that craving, and then a reward.
When your brain starts to crave something, it sends out signals which can be challenging to ignore.
The vital question to ask yourself every month or quarter is: are all my positive routines, habits and daily behaviours still serving me?
I’m I improving, making progress or getting the results I need?
Kristi Ling Spencer says, “Get into the habit of asking yourself, “Does this support the life I’m trying to create?”
