Since my day is wide open and I have plenty of time to work on building empowering habits to accomplish goals, the question I’ve had lately is do I do my best, push myself, give it my all, and possibly focus on multiple goals? or do I put my focus on less and work on locking in one habit at a time during the 30-day trials?

I feel this could helpful to anyone starting from scratch trying to learn how they can be more effective at learning and implementing what they want to do, so I’m more than happy to share my experience with it.

When I did less, when I focused on building one habit at a time, I always felt like I could do more. During my first 30-Day visualization trial, I would visualize for 20 minutes a day, then wonder what to do with the rest of the day. I didn’t feel like I had done my best or got much accomplished. When I focused on less and took less action, it just didn’t feel right.

On the flip side, with 30-day trial #3 I set out to push myself with 7 goals to accomplish, and I made it to Day 2 before stopping. The 7 goals were ranging from health goals to productivity goals to reading goals, etc. It started feeling like an overwhelming job, and it was spreading my focus to thin.

The Solution

My best answer to that question came when I dropped the either/or thinking. Why not both? Why not do my best to immerse myself in and learn about one goal at a time? What would happen if I take one of the goals I wanted to lock in as a habit and learn all I could about it for 30 days, experiment with it, and find out the most effective way to ingrain it as a habit.

For instance, the main goal for this 30-day trial now is waking up at 6:00am (early for me). I could read articles on how to wake up early, talk to other people who wake up early now, practice to get my feet wet, and maybe even hang out with a family that wakes up early.

I got this from Steve’s article on rapid improvement and somehow it clicked that he’s approached many aspects of personal growth that way, so I want to do it too.

Related Articles

1. 30-Day Trial #2
2. 30-Day Trial #2 Results
3. 30-Day Trial #3 – Day 19
4. 30-Day Trial #3 Revised
5. 30-Day Trial #3 – Day 3
6. 30-Day Trial #3 Results
7. Overwhelmed?