The goal is to keep the goal the goal !

You've joined a fat club that's a household name, you've bought your pedometer and you've downloaded the APP that calculates how many calories you ingest and how many calories you burn for every activity from snow boarding to needlepoint.  You are going to start next Monday (it's always next Monday isn't it?) with a guaranteed fat loss, nutrition plan which consists of a cup of liquid pixie dust every 4 hours that has the RDA of all the vitamins and minerals a healthy body needs.

So what's your actual goal?   Do you know what your goal is??

It could be fat loss or muscle gain or increased energy and better health or stress reduction.  Regardless of what the goal is your behaviour(s) will determine the level of success you attain.  Several empirically researched studies have found that making one habitual change at a time has an 80% success rate.  Double that to two changes attempted simultaneously and the success rates plummets to 35%.  Three or more changes attempted at the same time rates at less than 10%.

I recommend that you read the last paragraph again and all the first paragraph again.  If you want a new habit to stick then the goal is to keep the goal the goal, by changing one step (goal) at a time.  Too many balls in the air can result in broken toes and if something is worth doing, it's worth doing everyday.  Is looking after your health and vitality worth doing everyday?

Takeaway point : Pick a habit you can sustain, at a level you can sustain easily.  When you perform it without thought (unconscious habit), then increase the level or begin a new habit.