The more successful, positive, and accelerating habits you have in your life, the more you will boost your success. Sadly, not very many people want to become disciplined, and there's a reason behind that. For example, anyone can go to YouTube and start learning how to play the piano or guitar. What differentiates them from someone who is super successful is the fact that someone who is super successful has continued to learn more chords , even when they don't necessarily want to.
They continued to progress and advance and challenge themselves. You also need a lot of discipline to remove negative habits or to replace bad habits with good ones. Any positive change in your life will be difficult to make happen.
The good news is that habits always get easier with time. Habits keep you going when the going gets tough and motivation drops - you just need the discipline to form that habit in the first place. Another cool thing about habits is that once they are formed - once they are locked in the neural pathways of your brain - they will start to turn really difficult things that you once struggled with into easy tasks for you!
In fact, it would be out of character for him to lift less than once a week! How much easier do you think it is for him to work out than it is for someone who has never worked out before? The more you do something, the better you get at it. When you experience negative emotions sadness, anxiety, anger, etc. Create the habit of spending time in nature every day and mindfully appreciating the beauty around you.
In whatever you are doing, mindfully redirect your focus to the present moment and the task at hand. When you have negative feelings, begin to notice the thoughts that preceded the feelings and actively change the thoughts.
Mindfully catch yourself saying something disparaging or negative to your spouse and change your words. Practice asking for what you want and need in the relationship — emotionally, sexually, and otherwise. Take time every day or week to learn more about your partner by asking growth-oriented relationship questions. When you feel angry at your partner, practice the habit of breathing and counting to 20 before speaking. If you and your partner are apart during the day, find a time to call and talk during the day.
Offer your partner regular non- sexual touch. Define your core values and every day plan your activities and make decisions using these values as a guide. Every morning read something inspiring, informative, or uplifting to support your self-awareness and inner development. Write a vision for who you want to be and how you want to live, and take one action a day to make the vision real. Make a list of all of the assumptions and beliefs you hold about people, politics, religion, society, etc.
Begin to let go of attachments to material things by giving away or throwing away things every day. Notice when you are acting or making choices in order to please other people and practice pleasing yourself first. Catch yourself when you start to whine or complain and say something grateful and positive instead.
When you find yourself making excuses, practice the habit of being honest with yourself and others. Develop the habit of being a creator rather than a reactor by mindfully deciding how you want to live. Practice a mindset of positive expectation , believing that something good is happening for you every day.
Actively work on healing old wounds and limiting beliefs every day through counseling, coaching, reading, and self-awareness. Define your own integrity and the specific behaviors related to your integrity and practice them daily.
Get in the habit of paying attention to your intuition and using it to help you make decisions. Take an hour a day to simplify everything in your house. Clear out clutter, give away what you no longer use or need, organize rooms and closets.
Write down three main goals for the day and begin with the most difficult or challenging first. When you begin working on a project or task, set a timer for 30 minutes or an hour, and work non-stop until the timer goes off. Develop the habit of removing distractions when you work.
Turn off your phone, clear your desk, close browsers on your computer, close your door, etc. Practice batching similar tasks together, such as making all of your calls or responding to emails at the same time. Begin the habit of waking up earlier each morning. Start with just 5 minutes earlier and work up to an hour over a few weeks. When you have big goals to accomplish, break them down into smaller tasks or habits and work on them one by one. Create accountability and incentive by announcing your goals and tasks to other people and report back to them when you complete the task or goal.
Write a list of the no-so-urgent tasks you consistently avoid and set aside 30 minutes a day to work on them. Consider all of the obligations, clubs, projects, subscriptions, etc. Hire a life coach to work with you weekly to keep you motivated, challenged, and on-task. Decide the position or job you want and what it takes to get there.
Take one action a day toward making it happen. Decreased concentration and increased fatigue are the most common problems that arise from not drinking enough water. Meeting all of your daily vitamin requirements protects you from a wide range of diseases and conditions that would take me too long to list out. These foods do nothing for you except add inches to your waist and sap your energy.
Since diet is one of the hardest things to change about your lifestyle , I recommend starting small with a habit like — Eat a bowl of fruits and vegetables every day for lunch.
As this habit becomes a part of your identity, you can reach higher and aim for more drastic shifts in your diet. When it comes to your finances, you should always know much money is going out and how much money is coming in. A great way to do this is to make a spreadsheet in Google Sheets or Excel and make two columns for your income and expenses.
Each day, simply look at your bank account and input the money you spent vs. Remember habits are daily actions that compound over time. By setting aside a small amount of money each day to ensure you are protected in case of a financial emergency, you will be well-equipped to deal with any curveballs life may throw at you. Most of us including me spend way too much money on eating out each month.
The rise of delivery apps like Uber Eats, Doordash, and Postmates has made it even easier to spend excessively on food. One habit that has helped me cut this expense significantly is packing food before I leave my apartment. This is the only habit on this list that focuses on spending more, not less. Have you ever passed on an expensive product and bought a cheaper option that actually ended up costing you more money?
You ultimately get what you pay for, especially when it comes to big purchases. Save as much money as you can. Knowledge is power, and there are people much smarter than you who have developed proven systems for managing your money. All you have to do is go out there and find the information. When you have a plan for what you want to accomplish in a given day, you give yourself a fighting chance at winning that day.
Just pick one that resonates with you and make it one of the first things you do every morning, or one of the last things you do before going to bed. If you want to learn how I structure my to-do list, read this article I wrote about the Ivy Lee Method. Figure out what your priorities are and then use a simple tool like Google Calendar to create a schedule based on those priorities. Scheduling your time also leads to guilt-free down-time.
Have you ever been sitting on the couch watching Netflix while also relentlessly thinking about what you should be doing instead? Nope, not the school. One of the most common mistakes that people make is being busy as opposed to being productive. If you simply focus on checking items off of your list, you risk falling into the trap of knocking out easy, less important tasks instead of buckling down on the hard stuff.
I recommend writing down a list of tasks and then choosing the one or two most important tasks on that list. When it comes time to work, only focus on those first two tasks. Your phone is a huge liability when it comes to your productivity.
However, the seemingly irresistible urge to check social media and respond to texts can be eliminated with one simple habit — place your phone in another room when you sit down to work. Most of the time, the reason we check our phone while we are working comes down to convenience.
All we have to do is reach over and press a button. Keep in mind that most of the decisions we make are a result of whichever option offers the path of least resistance. By placing your phone in another room, staying focused on your work becomes the easier choice. Why is it the days we come home tired and stressed we make the wrong choices?
We opt for beer and pizza when this is the time when we need good healthy food the most. Planning your meals can help to make healthy eating a natural part of every day. If there is healthy convenient food in the fridge we are less likely to make bad choices. Research has linked sitting for long periods of time with a number of conditions which include obesity, increased blood pressure, excess body fat and high cholesterol levels.
Regular breaks also act as a great reminder to take some deep breaths and drink more water to stay hydrated and focused throughout the day. The way you think about life and work can affect you. It all starts with positive thinking.
Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. When it comes to friends, people often focus on the good points and drown out the bad. When it comes to enemies, they do the opposite. Focusing on the positive is essential to achieve anything in life. So think positive and create the life that you want. Living mindfully can greatly help you to focus and do your best work all the time. Set it for at least once a day to remind you to come back to the present moment.
Start small and commit to regularity.
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