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Daily Routines & Maintaining Good Habits
The secret to success is found in your daily routines. Many people find it easy to start good habits but then find it harder to maintain those good habits for the long haul. If you’ve ever encountered that situation, this round up is for you! We’ve curated some of the best articles from around the web to help you find some tips and inspiration to maintain your good habits. When they say, ”I’m going to…” start exercising, eat healthy, get organized, read more, etc., you know that they’re going to make it happen. But when you try to go after similar goals, it’s a different story. You might be able…
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Achieving Goals & Building the Habit of More Focused Hours
When you’re ready to get serious about achieving goals, the best place to focus is on your daily routine. In order to find success, you need to start building the habit of having more productive hours in your day. I was talking to someone today and he said that with all the time he spends putzing around on the internet, he gets maybe 2 hours of focused time a day. I actually think that’s higher than average! But if he does incredible work in those 2 hours a day, think of the good he could do toward achieving goals if he doubled or even tripled that amount of focused time.…
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Get Things Done: Productivity, Goals & Life Priorities
If it’s important to you to get things done each day, you should focus on your productivity, goals and life priorities. Learning to be more productive is a great way to increase your happiness and satisfaction. As human beings we’re often too inconsistent in how we invest our time and energy. We are easily distracted and often fall into the trap of living by different priorities every day. Get things done with clarity Most people are overwhelmed with the amount of things they have to do and all the interruptions they experience during the day. As a result many people feel that while they work hard and for long hours,…
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Using High Performance Habits to Become More Action-Oriented
Implementing high performance habits into your daily routine can help you become more action-oriented. Do you ever feel that your character is too hesitant and self-censoring? Maybe you get an idea to take action or to share something, and then another voice pops in your head and talks you out of it. Perhaps you straddle the fence for a while, pondering whether it’s wiser to take action or hold back, and much of the time you hold back. Perhaps you start to take action and then undo or delete what you’ve done because of that voice chiming with objections like these: I don’t really need to share this. This isn’t…
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Sticking to Good Habits: A Practical Guide
The hardest thing for most people, when it comes to building good habits, is sticking to it long enough for it to become ingrained. It’s why most people don’t exercise or eat healthy, why people procrastinate or have clutter or debt, why people smoke and drink soda, why people don’t meditate or learn a new skill or write everyday or read more books. Simply put: if you can learn to stick to a habit, you can do almost anything. Why You Don’t Stick to a Habit The most common reasons people don’t stick to a habit: Habit is too difficult. You don’t enjoy doing it. Too many habits at once…
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What is Your Definition of Success?
What is your definition of success? When you think of it, do you envision oodles of money, a mansion, and a fancy sports car? While those things are great, what about a deeper sense of success – a success beyond your wildest dreams? If you’re like most people, you’ve probably heard countless success stories where ordinary folks like yourself have gone from rags to riches scenarios. However, and more importantly, there are even better stories out there. Like the stories of entrepreneurs and business people leaving their crushing, corporate jobs to go and sell ice cream somewhere in the Caribbean. They, too, are abundantly happy and successful. So, what makes…
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Goal Setting in Your 7 Main Life Categories
Successful goal setting, execution and achievement with the seven main life categories is key to living a fulfilling life. If we take a step back and focus on all of the core elements that make up our lives over the 80+ years that we’re given, we’ll likely notice there are 7 core components that are part of our journey. Figuring out how to succeed in each of those areas is a key to living a fulfilling life. Let’s dive into each of those 7 Main Life Categories. Goal setting and life category #1: Personal We all have so much going on in life. There’s work, career, school, home and family.…
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Practicing Mindfulness to Shape Your Days
Practicing mindfulness around how you respond to the Hundred Little Decisions you make each day can have a profound impact on the shape of your days. “It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” ~Tony Robbins Over and over, throughout the day, we make the Hundred Little Decisions: to work on this, to check email, to go to this website, to respond to messages, to grab a bite to eat, to meditate or exercise or do yoga or have tea or watch a video or push into deep purpose. The Hundred Little Decisions shape our day. They determine whether we’ve had a day of focus and…
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Focus On Your Core Values & Beliefs for Successful Personal Development
Each of us have a set of core values and beliefs about life that influence our vision of the future, and even sometimes the past. These core values and beliefs are often developed in childhood and can be strongly tilted toward success or failure, as well as abundance or lack. If we truly want to experience successful personal development, it’s important that we focus on those two key areas. A lot of your core values and beliefs come from your parents and the family that you grew up with, but they also come from general society. The TV shows you watched growing up, the friends you had, their parents, your…
