How Can Tiny Habits Help Me Reach My Goals?

Have you ever bitten off more than you can chew with a big health goal? Setting large goals to start with often proves to be too much or too difficult for us to maintain.  As a result, our confidence can become deflated.

Instead, you can try scaling down your big goal into smaller habits, which can help you to make gradual progress toward your larger long-term goal. Change is generally a step-by-step process. However, over time you will see the mountain you have climbed.

Let’s take a look at a long-term goal of drinking 64 ounces of water per day. If you have a hard time even drinking 10 ounces of water a day when you set this goal, then it may be in your best interest to scale that goal down into a tiny habit.

An example of a tiny habit you can make is: After I wash my hands, I will drink 4 ounces of water, and then I will yell “awesome” to celebrate my success.

As that becomes easier, you can increase the amount of water you drink after washing your hands from 4 ounces to 6 ounces. This leads you closer and closer to your long-term goal of drinking 64 ounces!

Just remember, as your new tiny habit becomes part of your daily routine, be sure to change your habits so that they are a little bit more challenging. This will help you to keep progressing and moving toward your end goal.