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10 Daily Habits to Incorporate in 2015
To achieve greater success and personal satisfaction in 2015, try incorporating some of the following habits into your daily life:
- Plan ahead. Set aside time to think about and plan your week and priorities.
- Set clear, actionable goals for your day, week, year, and 3 to 5 years into the future.
- Visualize success. Find a quiet place to sit down and visualize. Imagine how it will feel to achieve a specific goal. Let yourself “see” the steps you’re taking to achieve success.
- Embrace challenges. Challenges give you the opportunity to apply yourself, learn something new, and connect to a bigger picture.
- Be persistent. When you work hard and persist, you will gain enhanced confidence in your abilities.
- Get eight hours of sleep. Make sure you sleep sufficiently to wake up refreshed and energized each morning.
- Exercise daily. Exercise is great for your heart and fitness. And it pumps oxygen into your brain, improving your overall well-being, happiness, and ability to achieve results.
- Read daily. Reading is exercise for your mind – it sharpens your mental facilities and broadens your perspectives.
- Treat people with dignity and respect. When you are kind to a stranger, you’ll find that it has a boomerang effect and will make your day brighter.
- Don’t hold onto grudges. When you let go of grudges, you free your mind to think positive thoughts. And you’ll have more energy and time to focus on success indicators.
After you’ve tried these 10 daily habits, repeat the ones that work for you and make them part of your daily routine!
Aristotle said, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit.”
Five Steps for Building Better Teamwork and Trust
At Beyond Insurance, we use the end of the year as a springboard to refocus and prepare for new challenges and opportunities.
But what about you and your team? Are you focused and energized about the future? Even more importantly, are you functioning like a united team?
In the book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick M. Lencionia says, “Teamwork remains the one sustainable competitive advantage that has been largely untapped.” The book states that every team must master certain attributes for a competitive advantage, but the foundational attribute is trust: (more…)
Six Leaders Help You Rethink your Morning Routine
In her book, What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, Laura Vanderkam states that “mornings hold the key to taking control of our schedules. If we use them wisely, we can build habits that will allow us to lead happier, more productive lives.”
Successful people have priorities they want to accomplish. And they recognize that they have more control of their schedules in the morning. Try these tips from six leaders – both past and present – to make your mornings more effective: (more…)
Eight Tips to Conquer Negative Thinking
Negative thinking…waiting for the other shoe to drop…expecting the worst to happen. Sound familiar?
Roseann Sdoia, 45, lost her leg in the Boston Marathon bombing last year. No one was expecting the worst to happen, but for Roseann, it did. Yet, this courageous woman set a goal and visualized running again. She maintained a positive mindset and challenged herself to overcome negative thinking. She never let losing a leg to cause her to lose her self-esteem or motivated mindset. (more…)
You Have Two Ears and One Mouth for a Reason…Listen!
Have you heard the old adage, “We have been given two ears but one single mouth, in order that we may listen more and talk less.”
Listening is defined as the active process of receiving and responding to spoken messages. Of your four communication skills – reading, writing, talking, and listening – listening is the most frequently used, yet the least mastered. (more…)
Cause You’ve Got Personality…
Have you ever noticed that you are naturally drawn to some people? This happens when you walk into a room full of strangers and feel an instant connection with a particular person.
Research has shown that there are several reasons you feel comfortable around certain people. Initially, you look for people with whom you are comfortable meeting. Then, you survey the room to see who has an open and friendly appearance. Who is smiling, laughing, or engaging in upbeat conversations? (more…)
How’s Your Self-Esteem?
Social self-esteem acts like a radar, scanning the environment for signs of approval or disapproval. Most people fall into one of two camps: they assume that they are doing everything right, and it is the rest of the world that has a problem. Or they internalize rejection as a function of their personal shortcomings. (more…)
5 Steps for Positive Thinking and a Happier Life
‘It is not things in themselves that trouble us but our opinion of things.’ Epictetus (341-270 BC)
“Positive thinking” is an umbrella term for a range of ideas and techniques associated with the psychology of achievement.
In team sports, we have all seen the difference positive thinking makes on winning or losing. It gives the team a competitive edge while negative thinking impairs peak performance. (more…)
The 6 Facets of Commitment
The word commit comes from the Latin word committere, which means to connect, entrust.
Commitment to your goals is one of your most important rules for success. When you set expectations but have no commitment, you fail to deliver what you promised. Without commitment, you run the risk of developing the bad habits of procrastination, laziness, making excuses and rationalization. (more…)
The Art of Staying Motivated
Having lifetime goals is essential. However, having the desire to accomplish these goals is not enough. You must have a future vision of success supported by persistence, endurance and motivation…despite challenges, difficulties and set-backs. (more…)
Summit by Scott Addis 