Is there anything you desire to change in your life for the better. Any old habit you wanted to break or any new habit you want to develop? Consider how much more stimulating and fulfilling your life would be if you could create any new habit that you wanted. Perhaps you simply want to stop smoking, study a new language, take time out to relax each day, exercise every evening or maybe you have other such personal development aims that you never managed to get around to before, let alone achieved. If this is the case then why not take up the thirty day challenge!

What exactly is the thirty day challenge? Basically it is an effective method of bringing about new habits into your life. You see, often the toughest part of forming a new habit is the first few days. Breaking a habit or forming a new one can be particularly tricky to do as it seems changing something for the rest of your life is so daunting that often you will not start or give-up soon due to the enourmity of the task. However the thirty day challenge actually allows you to quit no questions aked after just 30 days! If the law of attraction is ‘the secret’ then beyond the secret is the power of habit.

This type of psychology gives you the great feeling that it is not an everlasting thing and that you are achieveing something worthwhile, like not smoking for 30 days. Following the thirty day trial period you can then of course decide to begin smoking again or you could decide to stick with your new habit and following the thirty days it also will have had time to transfer itself into a new habit. Psychologically it is literally just so much easier to get through, you can cross days off a calendar or countdown the days until your chosen date, either way it is just heaps more motivating.

Following the 30 day trial period you may then take some time out to consider if your new habit is something that you wish to maintain or not. If it does you will then be in a much better position to make it a permanent habit. You will have had time to benefit from the new habit, break the old habit and bed in the new habit. From this point onwards you will be better able to consider whether or not you want to persist with the new habit. You may also wish to further extend the challenge for another month or two to help maintain the psychological effect of it only being a semi-permanent change and it will also provide you with a new target and challenge.

Whilst the first week of the challenge will be the most difficult to get through you can take consellation in the fact that you are doing something that will enhance your life for the future.

Here are some great ideas for 30 day challenges that could really benefit you in both the short and long term:

Read everyday for an hour, meditate everyday, commit to an exercise regime, cut out fast foods, eat your 5 portions of fruit and vegetables each day, call a different old friend each day, contact a family member, give-up TV completely, study a new language, quit smoking, become vegetarian, practice positive thinking, stop drinking alcohol, take time to relax more, stop watching soap operas, do Yoga, stop wasting time in on-line forums or online games, meet a new person each day. The possible alternatives are only restricted to that which you can think of and wish to benefit from, nothing else. Even if you don’t want to make a permanent change go ahead and improve yourself in the short term, you will gain from the experience of personal development whatever the outcome.

Whilst for the vast majority of activities conducting them daily may not always be the best thing, for example jogging for newbies can be highly stressful on the bodies muscles and joints, however sticking to it each day makes it seem lots easier and simpler to stick to because you don’t have the excuse of just taking a ‘day off’ at anytime. So I urge you right now to make a chart with 30 days on it, jot down what you will do to enhance your life and begin today!Don’tbe afriad to make use of the many invaluable personal development products that are available out there too.

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