How to Build a Habit

“Motivation is what gets you started.

Habit is what keeps you going.”

- Jim Rohn

Jim Rohn hit the nail on the head with his quote. Your HABITS are what differentiates you from the rest of the world. It’s what makes you an individual. Good habits make you successful and bad habits make you a loser. This goes for every area of your life, especially getting in shape.

The three main components of bodybuilding, around which you build your habits, are:

1. Diet

2. Training

3. Supplements

If you look on our website you will find huge amounts of info on diet, training and supplementation. In this article, however, I’d rather discuss how to build a habit and the importance of habits.

Set your habits into the right direction and your life will follow

How Do You Build a Habit?

• It starts off with what you want. Be it a body, money or whatever, it’s the idea that will get you started. Just like the quote at the top says: “Motivation is what gets you started”. In our case that would be a Hollywood/Men’s Health body. You will imagine how it feels to look that way  and hey presto, your motivation has just been formed.

• What will your habits be? For example, you have to decide how soon you want a great body, which directly influences how frequently you go to the gym (3 to 7 times a week if you want to get this handled within 3 to 6 months). You may be a little shocked by this, but you have to accept it. If you can’t accept that and expect immediate results you won’t get anywhere. You need to do things for quite a long time to get significant results. This goes for anything, not just bodybuilding.

• After that, you need to follow through, regardless of the results (SUPER IMPORTANT). This is what a habit is. The difference between a champion and a loser is what their habits are. Period. It’s not very complicated but it’s still not easy. Don’t get upset along the way or get distracted. It doesn’t matter whether or not you ate, for example. All you need to do is show up.

• Choose who you can trust. If they speak common sense that you can implement in your life then follow them and cut out every other distraction (especially silly marketing).

If you focus on the process you created in the second step nothing can stop you! They say it takes 21 days to develop a habit, I’m not sure if you can put an exact time frame on it, but all that matters is that you develop your habits as quickly as possible.

Why Are Habits Important?

As I mentioned before, habits will either make or break you as a man. It really is the thing you need to master if you want to rise to the top. If your habit is smoking and drinking guess what will happen to you? Yes, you’re gonna die sooner.

Let’s say you develop the habit of eating fruit every day. You will feel better, be healthier and live longer. If you develop the habit of working out 4 times a week for 6 months using mind muscle connection, will you get the muscle you want? Hell yeah! You just need to do it and put it into your daily routine.

Once you develop a habit, it’s part of your LIFE, a part of who you are. Of course, you won’t make it to the gym sometimes and here’s where it gets interesting. Once you have built a habit successfully and you miss the gym one time, for example, you’ll feel bad. Normal people think “ah well I didn’t make it today, no worries, it’ll be good recovery time”. But that won’t be true for you – it will actually feel as if you missed out on life for a bit. Whenever I miss a workout I feel a bit bad about it and I’m not in a good mood. That tells me it’s become part of my life – I’ve successfully built a habit.

You have the choice to ‘custom-build’ your body, wealth, spirituality, relationships and business. These components of life are (and will continue to be) a product of your habits. Decide what you want these components to look like and decide what habits you need to develop in order to get there.