Using incentives to build positive habits

One of the best ways to build the positive habits you need to thrive is to inspire yourself through the use of incentives.

by: E.B. Johnson

Incentives are a great way to make changes in your day-to-day life. By rewarding ourselves for a job well-done — no matter how small — we can actually encourage our authentic selves to get excited about even the biggest transformations; seeing them for the opportunity they present rather than the unknown they also represent.

Positive rewards go a long way in making us see the transitions in our lives in a better light. They can help bolster our sense of self-confidence and make us look toward the future with enthusiasm rather than apprehension. Using incentives can also help us better visualize the line between what’s needed and not needed, and inspire us to keep going when we absolutely want to give up. Incentives are great when you know how to use them, and they can go a long way in helping us to establish habits that build us up, instead of tearing us down.

When it comes to building up new and positive habits in our lives, incentives can be an invaluable means of plotting our way to a new future. Incentives are critical and positive rewards that also act as mile-markers on your journey forward. They make up a pivotal piece of the habit loop, and do a lot of the work for us when it comes to staying focused and breaking bad habits.

Rewards and incentives make us view tasks not as chores, but as fun activities that are adding to our lives rather than detracting from them. This type of positive reinforcement makes it easier to stay on track, and makes it possible to embrace change in a way that we might not have been able to otherwise. It’s all about setting smart incentives, however, and incentives that align both with where you are now and where you want to be in the future. By learning how to understanding incentives and positive reinforcement, you can use them more effectively but that takes a bit of time and practice to master.

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