My 90 Days Challenge to Build New Success Habits

by Khaled

2012 has been a good year so far – I moved beyond my comfort zone emotionally, financially, and physically.

  • I got married  :-D
  • I lost 20 kg in less than 90 days, and dropped my body fat from 27% to 16%
  • I quit my job, and started a new business
  • I feel better  :mrgreen:

If you know me, I get very motivated by new challenge. It simply turns me on.

So now, I would like to take up a new challenge to end 2012 (isn’t this early) with winning habits. As you might already know, I love habits — a big big believer in building habits. They simply make life more organized, and effortless.

The purpose of this post, is to share what I’m doing with you, and because I love challenge, this announcement gonna motivate me to win.

Here is the challenge: In the next 90 days I will build the following habits:

  1. wake up 5:00 am
  2. drink 500 ml water
  3. pray, and ask for support
  4. exercise for 45 min
  5. eat healthy breakfast
  6. personal grooming: shower, brush teeth, floss, take care of my body… etc. I love doing visualization & affirmations while I’m having the shower
  7. work in my “super-productive zone” for 45 min
  8. write 3 goals for the day, and the rest of my to-dos
  9. work 5 hrs only to build my business (and take a short break every 2 hrs to drink water, and eat a small meal)
  10. 2:00 pm: leave my laptop @ the office, forward calls to the voice mail, switch off mobile phones (disconnect from work)
  11. eat healthy lunch with my wife before 3:00 PM
  12. have fun & excitement for 2-3 hrs (I have created a list of activities I enjoy)
  13. healthy dinner with a friend at 7:00 pm
  14. write a journal entry, a blog post (not business blogging)
  15. night grooming, and doing the visualization & affirmations again
  16. read nonfiction till I fall asleep (bed time is 10:00 pm)

A lot, huh?

I know! I have done +15 unsuccessful habits-building experiments. And the lists were longer than this one.

So that’s the challenge, to build the habits above in 90 days. I use MS-Excel tracking sheet to calculate success rate. 75% is the minimum acceptable rate.

On What Criteria I Choose my Habits?

Based on what I want to be, have, or do. But mostly on what I want to “be“. Because I believe once you become the person you want to be, life will move you to the next level to have or do what you want. At this time, I find myself looking for more energy (physically & emotionally), I want to be more centered & focused, also I wanna practice some emotional healing techniques that I’m learning now to even take my self-esteem & confidence to a new (more stable) level.

Updates will be on a new Twitter account created just for this experiment. Click here to follow my Tweets. And subscribe to comments below to participate in the discussion.

Thanks!

Tagged as: 90 days challenge

  • http://twitter.com/aralsum AR Alsum

    Khaled, you have been coaching me for a while now and you really changed my paradigm about so many things. I don’t think the list is too long for someone like you. You are a *REAL PERSON*

  • kalednet

    Hi AR, thanks for the encouraging words :-) Come back to see what’s happening here. Also, you can follow me on Twitter.

  • Dowan patrick-M&E Officer.

    I am grateful for the path you have chosen to lead your life, i am also trying my best to ensure that i keep up to the core items in your list like; exercising, drinking a lot of water, doing constructive work to improve my career, and relaxing while catching a movie or listening to music then weekends hangout with friends to share life experiences.

  • kalednet

    That is the “balance” we all looking for. Habits make it easier and natural, this is why i choose to practice habits often and spread the concept of building few good habits to achieve long term consistant useful actions toward meaningful goals.

  • kalednet

    here is a useful download…

    Click here to download the “success calculator” Excel sheet I’m gonna use in this experiment. It’s only offered to the SMART Habits members at this time, but I thought it would be helpful for people who are following this experiment, and maybe they will get motivated and try too :-)

  • Basil Pereira.

    The ethics behind the suggestion are to be a good human being, by sharing the good things to others and eliminate the the bad things for the sake of self and others. Very good logic. Thanks a lot.

  • 5sbhat

    What a great information. Thanks a lot.

  • kalednet

    That is the point Basi. You are most welcomed.

  • kalednet

    You are welcome buddy :-)

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  • http://twitter.com/suaveclub suaveclub

    Great post! I like it!

  • sanjana

    it touched my soul-
    “..Because I believe once you become the person you want to be, life will move you to the next level to have or do what you want..” I am 29,still without any job, still without any dream at all .. can I start now? do you think it’s of any worth or too late to start “being someone” at the thirties?

  • ram

    thanks for the sheet i’ll do my best to keep up all my forgotten good habits… thanks a million..

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