Tracking your progress while you work towards your goal will ensure a higher probability of success. The more often you monitor your success, the probability of success rises.
Further, when you physically track your success, on paper, digitally or publicly, your chances of success rise even more. Monitoring the progress you make along the way keeps you motivated to continue to put effort toward your goal because as you see your own progress, you work harder. ⭐
When you track your progress towards your goal, you will gain the ability to praise and reward yourself for the small advancements you make along the way. Rewards help the brain solidify behaviors, making them more likely to happen again. These things will raise your chances of achieving your goals.
We define a reward for a behavior as an event that produces a positive experience. Rewarding yourself for your progress can be as simple as taking a slight break from your work to play with your dog, or treating yourself to a coffee from your favorite cafe. 🎉
Rewards can work to increase a desired behavior or to decrease an undesired one. 👌 Reward systems work when a behavior immediately precedes a reward. This positive reinforcement will make it more likely the behavior will occur again in the future.
Whatever your goal may be, using a reward system will increase your success rate. Studies show that human behavior is highly motivated by rewards, the prospect of advancement, and the feeling of outstanding work. When we feel that the work we are doing is good, we perform better. The motivation of a job well done will help you succeed in your goals. When we receive rewards for behaviors, we tend to repeat the behavior easier the next time. 🥳
Be sure that when you check in on your own progress, you log your progress. Physically logging your progression towards your goal on paper, in your phone or on your computer, will assist you in keeping up with how far you’ve come.
You can also log your progress publicly, which has shown to foster higher success rates. Social media and support groups are perfect platforms for accounting for your successes. Join my Private Healthy Habits FaceBook group today!The more often you physically log your progress, the better chance you have in success with your goal. Tracking your progress helps ensure we put goals into action by increasing behavioral performance, and success rate increases when we physically track goals. 🔥