Challenges are designed to help work on forming a change that develops better habits. Do you have certain behavior patterns, triggers and habits that you have been trying to break but it's tough since now it’s automated?
The dedicated timeline for the challenges do help in this by setting up the context for the brain to act. Developing new habit or behavior involves uprooting the old one, familiarizing with the new one and then embedding it. These time-frames will help you to repeat the desired behavior to initiate a lasting change.
Challenges work in two ways – either they try to strengthen a particular behavior or they run as an experiment to try something new every day. And they have a profound effect because of the consistency accomplishing the modified behavior.
You need to have faith – if not in the result but at least in being able to see the progress. For that length of time, stay positive and experience the changes or breakthroughs you will encounter during the course. You need to see the small achievements you are making everyday.
Remember, if you happen to miss out the goal in the assigned timeline or miss a day in that, you can always restart. Don’t take it as a failure.
Since it generally takes 66 days to make a new habit, embarking to a timeline like one week, fifteen days or 30-day it benefits in
Challenges will make you prioritize what is crucial for you, make space for it in your daily hustle and help you give time to it to progress further.
The repeated activity in the dedicated time activates confidence for consistency. It also helps to accelerate this momentum to initiate the change which, when continued, re-frames the chosen habit. You have to identify what suits you the best and work accordingly.
Whether or not you achieve the specific result, but you initiated it, alloted some days and your energy on it and experienced certain progress – that, in itself, becomes a big boost to try the challenge again.
Even your biggest of the plans can be divided into many short-term challenges and suddenly you feel like you are in one of the levels of your favorite video game series and you have to win it.
It’s, typically, hard to stay motivated and act on it timely. That’s where these challenges come to your rescue. For a lot of people, working hard is not a problem. But, when it seems never-ending with no clarity on a defined next stage, they tend to procrastinate. In these challenges, the fun part is the timeline is shorter. When the time period becomes short, there is a lot of action expected which is also an adrenaline-booster. One exactly knows what they are looking to accomplish. So, engagement is high. Productivity is continuous and it’s fun.
Write It Everywhere – Put up the goal statement for the challenge on Post-Its everywhere to keep coming across the desired result you want. This will not let you forget why you are doing it in the first place to rob off the motivation.
Share It On Social Media – When you do anything drastic like that, it becomes a commitment since you have declared it now to the world. It becomes even more important to accomplish it as now it comes to one’s integrity too.
Make An Accountability Buddy – Why not start the challenge with a friend so that you can become accountable to complete and accomplish the challenge together.
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