Is there anything you really wanted to change about your life. Any particular good habits you wish to form or any bad habits you wish to cast aside? Think of how much richer your life could be if you developed new more fulfilling habits. Perhaps you simply want to stop smoking, study a new language, meditate each day, exercise every evening or maybe you have other such personal development aims that you never really got around to attempting before, let alone achieving. If this is the case then why not take up the thirty day challenge!

What is the 30 day challenge exactly? Really it is just a devastatingly easy way of creating new habits in your life. You see, very often the hardest part about forming a new habit is actually starting and lasting for more than a 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 permits you to give up no questions aked after only 30 days! If the law of attraction is ‘the secret’ then beyond the secret is the power of habit.

This style of mentl approach gives you the impression that at least it is not forever and that you are really achieving something worth doing. After the thirty days you may of course choose to start smoking again or you may choose to continue with your new behavior which after thirty days has also had time to form as a new habit for you. Mentally it is just so much easier to deal with, you can tick days off a calendar or countdown the days until your target date, either way it is so much more motivating.

after the thrity day challenge period you will then have a chance to think about whether or not your new habit benefits you or not. If it does then you will then be easily able to transfer it to become a fixed patter of behaviour. 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 after 30 days wish to extend the period further for 60 or 90 days, this will maintain the psychological effect of it not really being a final change and to provide you with a new suitable target.

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 list of choices is only restricted to the thoughts you can come up with, 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 suggest that you grab yourself a pen and paper immediately draw out a 30 day chart and write out a statement of what you are going to do!