To clarify: reward yourself for taking new and improved actions, or for taking more of the right kind of actions, even if these actions don’t immediately cause the desired results. Once your new level becomes a habit, stop rewarding yourself and reward the next level up. Rinse and repeat until you’re close enough to a goal that it makes sense to reward yourself directly for the results you actually want.
To clarify: reward yourself for taking new and improved actions, or for taking more of the right kind of actions, even if these actions don’t immediately cause the desired results. Once your new level becomes a habit, stop rewarding yourself and reward the next level up. Rinse and repeat until you’re close enough to a goal that it makes sense to reward yourself directly for the results you actually want.
I continue to celebrate a job well done even if it’s force of habit, if only to give myself better incentives to form more good habits.