Do you want to become successful in life? Consider these as necessary steps to do so:
1. Sleep less. This is one of the best investments you can make to make your life more productive and rewarding. Most people do not need more than 6 hours to maintain an excellent state of health. Try getting up one hour earlier for 21 days and it will develop into a powerful habit. Remember, it is the quality not the quantity of sleep that is important. And just imagine having an extra 30 hours a month to spend on the things that are important to you.
2. Set aside one hour every
morning for personal development matters. Meditate, visualize your day, read
inspirational texts to set the tone of your day, listen to motivational tapes
or read great literature. Take this quiet period to vitalize and energize your
spirit for the productive day ahead. Watch the sun rise once a week or be with
nature. Starting the day off well is a powerful strategy for self-renewal and
personal effectiveness.
3. Do not allow those things that
matter the most in your life be at the mercy of activities that matter the
least. Every day, take the time to ask yourself the question "is this the
best use of my time and energy?" Time management is life management so
guard your time with great care.
4. Use the rubber band method to
condition your mind to focus solely on the most positive elements in your life.
Place a rubber band around your wrist. Each time a negative, energy sapping
thought enters your mind, snap the rubber band. Through the power of
conditioning, your mind will associate pain with negative thinking and you will
soon possess a strongly positive mindset.
5. Always answer the phone with
enthusiasm in your voice and show your appreciation for the caller. Good phone
manners are essential. To convey authority on the line, stand up. This will
instill further confidence in your voice.
6. Throughout the day we all get
inspiration and excellent ideas. Keep a set of cards (the size of business
cards; available at most stationary stores) in your wallet along with a pencil
to jot down these insights. When you get home, put the ideas in a central place
such as a coil notepad and review them from time to time. As noted by Oliver
Wendell Holmes: "Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains
its original dimensions."
7. Set aside every Sunday evening
for yourself and be strongly disciplined with this habit. Use this period to
plan your week, visualize your encounters and what you want to achieve, to read
new materials and inspirational books, to listen to soft soothing music and to
simply relax. This habit will serve as your anchor to keep you focused,
motivated and effective throughout the coming week.
8. Always remember the key
principle that the quality of your life is the quality of your communication.
This means the way you communicate with others and, more importantly, the way
you communicate with yourself. What you focus on is what you get. If you look
for the positive this is what you get. This is a fundamental law of Nature.
9. Stay on purpose, not on
outcome. In other words, do the task because it is what you love to do or
because it will help someone or is a valuable exercise. Don't do it for the
money or the recognition. Those will come naturally. This is the way of the
world.
10. Laugh for five minutes in the
mirror each morning. Steve Martin does. Laughter activates many beneficial
chemicals within the body that place us into a very joyous state. Laughter also
returns the body to a state of balance. Laughter therapy has been regularly
used to heal persons with varied ailments and is a wonderful tonic for life's
ills. While the average 4 year old laughs 500 times a day, the average adult is
lucky to laugh 15 times a day. Revitalize the habit of laughter, it will put
far more living into your life.
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