What separates successful people and unsuccessful people? What separates you at times of success, and times of failure. The answer could be habits. Habits have a lot of power although they are so deep within us we don't see them for what they truly are. They are programs and they can create your results. Why does a drug addict hit rock bottom? They have terrible habits. What about successful athletes that get up early and train hard almost every day? Those are habits people who exercise a lot even say "If I miss a day I feel unhappy I get a rush from exercising."
That little key is one of the things that can make or break our success. You have may experienced or spoke to a person who smokes cigarettes or has a bad habit which they cannot seem to stop doing. This is key they have programs running in their brain that actually reward them when they engage in their habits. Just like an old song can make you feel good instantly doing something that has become a habit will give you pleasurable feelings. Now obviously the trick is to make good habits. Like reading for instance many people have attained success by reading a book called "The Greatest Salesman In The World" by Og Mandino. In that book the man is given scrolls by the richest merchant and the first scroll says "I will make god habits and become their slave"
Having a habit like reading is awesome because it will improve your focus and concentration. Imagine the reports we hear about saying that the average person has an attention span of 30 seconds. Reading will extend that attention span which is key to changing your life and becoming more successful. Now the key is how you view your habits do you see them as nothing special or the specific keys you can use to change your entire life. It is up to you to make new habits no one can do that for you. The good news is once you decide to create new habits you can make positive changes just like that. The moment you decide to create the new habit everything changes.
Some good habits could be things like reading inspirational books, walking an hour per day, exercising, watching motivational speeches on youtube, painting, gardening, writing, making music, studying, learning, and many many many other great habits. There are in fact so many that I could not begin to tell you the best habit you should begin to work on now. That depends on you just start it. Make it a point to do it over and over and over again. Bad habits start small they come from repition in a relaxed and cheerful mood. So do good habits so decide which ones you want to make and build them.
After a while you will find yourself doing the positive habits without even thinking about them. You will love doing them more and more! I think it is easy to see the value in that. For instance if you watch CSPAN you will see that the leaders of this country can read very well. They will talk about bills that contain 1000's of pages that they read in one day. Can you read 1000's of pages and debate a bill over night? Well virtually every single leader of this country can do just that and you can see it on CSPAN if you would like proof.
Every world class athlete has the habit of exercise. Even those with poor nutrition are still exercising. In my opinion the habit of exercise and playing is the very habit that makes a person a super athlete. Obviously you would gain an edge when you study nutrition or find a nuntritionist. Just exercising as a habit is what makes people athletes. Actually exercising and lifting weights is a habit many many successful people have. You probably want the habit of walking. Walking at least one hour per day is very important to your mental health.
So now you have to review your habits and the results that you have gotten from them. You can just decide and change or create any habit you want. This is also why listening and reading inspirational things every day is a great habit to make! Top companies are always paying people to give speeches to their employees. They pay sports champions, coaches, and other inspirational people because they know that the results will return the money they spend on the speakers. Hillary and Bill Clinton have made millions on speeches. People are not paying millions of dollars for speakers because it doesn't work. It totally does work. When you are getting inspiration every day you will have the mental ability to change yourself. You don't want to give up half way through. Habits will change your life but they do take a while to develop ask a smoker how long it took them to get to where they are today. If you stick to it you will break through and get to the point where you ave developed success habits.
One of the biggest habits can be your way of thinking. If you think you cannot change or improve your life than how can you do it? If you keep hearing every day real stories of real people who changed their life. You will begin to feel that you can change your life. A secret way to change your thoughts is reading. Especially powerful books to read are biographies and autobiographies of people who have what you want in life. When you read the real way people achieved success you free yourself from some trial and error and theory. Less than 1% of people make millions of dollars. Reading biographies and auto biographies will give you insight on the 1% of people who actually achieved success.
Meditation is also a super powerful habit to create. You can google benefits of meditation for years! Just try it and you will be surprised how much stuff pops back up in your head! Stuff you may have forgotten if you didnt take a small mental break. Building the habit of meditating 10 minutes a day has been boasted by people like Run DMC Billionaire Russel Simmons. You can just google or youtube him on meditation. There is a ton of benefits to meditation. You can learn a meditative are like Qi Gong. Google the benefits of Qi Gong and you will see the value of making that a habit.
A great way to develop a habit or break a habit is with writing. Write yourself little notes. This is a powerful guide to changing or creating a habit. If we write ourselves a note it will help us to re-enforce those habits. If you want to break a habit take a break from that habit. Just try and stop and let some time pass this can begin to change that habit. Writing your reasons can help you accomplish that. For example if you have a bad habit maybe write your reason and place it where you can see it if you try and give up. Just keep cracking away at the bad habits and developing the good habits is key. You can accelerate this with writing down hand written reminders.
You can certainly change your entire life with habits. The power of habits can be amazing! If you want success perhaps the only thing you are missing are habits. You maybe super talented but have a bad habit holding you back. Of course you may not see which habits need to be developed to gain success that is why many people seek out a mentor. Learning from a mentor speeds up the process. If you remember to make good habits you can max out the results from having a mentor.
That is also a key reason going to success seminars has so many great results. When you leave your town and go to an event in a new place you will have to break your routine. Your routine is made up of your habits. Breaking up the old routine and making it a little better each day will generate amazing habits that will change your whole life. You can break up your old routines so many different ways. Stop watching your favorite tv show, or eating your favorite junk food. That process will instantly make you more willing to learn, and more willing to accept change. Change is the goal. You have heard of the comfort zone and how bad it can be. Well if you want to live comfortably, but you are not than you must get out of your comfort zone. Ideally you want to constantly improve your habits. This will mean you are always growing.
Here is a good list of idea's for good habits to build.
1. Eating healthy: We all know eating fresh fruits, and vegetables is what we should eat so how healthy is your diet? You can get loads of information on a healthy diet. Eat food that is farm like. Eat those fruits, eat oatmeal, eat vegetables. Etc etc Developing healthy diet habits is a great place to work on for everybody! There is so much cool stuff to learn. I agree with Authors like Michael Pollan that say we have to stick to the outer edges of the supermarket where the produce is. Eat those salads, eat that brocolli. The good news is once it becomes a habit you will love eating healthy! Same thing with your bad food eating habits just take a break. It might be tough at first if you have developed a strong habit. A lot of times we know what we shouldn't be eating so go ahead and write it down and write yourself reminders. The reminders may help when you are in the situation where you are ready to eat that unhealthy food and seem to forget why you didnt want to eat it in the first place.
2. Taking vitamins: Personally I would highly recommend taking some vitamins. This will boost your mineral intake easily without having to eat some kind of farmers diet. I mean if you live in the real world right now vitamins and minerals aren't readily available. Kudos to you if you are able to go out and forage and have your own organic garden. I personally love the natural news store and super man herbs. I take vitamins from Mega Foods brand they sell it at Whole foods.
3. Take daily walks: Very easy to start with very powerful benefits. You can actually lose a lot of weight just from walking an hour or more per day. Also if you are overweight walking should be much easier on your body than trying to jump right into something like running. Your body burns fat for energy over the long term and sugar for immediate energy so when you walk for an hour or more you are burning fat for energy. Walking is super great for your mood. Any exercise has a slew of benefits for your mood and health so walking is a great habit to build today! You can do it year round and stay in pretty good shape just with a daily walking routine. People say if you are hurt to walk it off because walking is that easy and natural. Of course many people are far beyond this when it comes to exercise walking is still great for their mood. Just try it set a destination walk over and hour and then journal your feelings for the rest of the day. The cool thing about habits is the more you do it the more you will actually enjoy and love doing it!
4. Reading every day: This maybe the single most powerful habit to become wealthy. As I mentioned earlier watch CSPAN look at the leaders of this country and how much they read. Just consider who in this country is wealthy. We all have heard that you don't have to graduate college to become wealthy. Yes, that is very true. However Doctors, and Lawyers make a lot of money. What stands between any person and becoming a doctor or lawyer? A whole lot of reading! Yes, that is something that we can all say is a no brainer doctors, and lawyers will have to read a lot to go from regular person to going to school and getting their career. Perhaps you have no interest in being a doctor or a lawyer. Well take matters into your own hands and read, read, read! Read as much as a law or medical student about any subject and you will make money. Reading every day at least one page per day is a powerful habit. Maybe the most powerful habit when it comes to success.
5. Listen to inspirational things on youtube: You can find so much stuff on there just jump in and try it! Listening to uplifting, inspirational things will help you in all areas. That's why Nasa Astronauts listened to Zig Ziglar on cassette tape in the old days. Now you can listen to Zig on youtube. This is a great way to find new mentors! Make this a daily habit. If you do it once in a while that is good, but if you do it daily thatis powerful! Check out Steve Harvey or Will Smith.
6. Journal: Make it a habit to write things down every day. This is ultra powerful! When you write things down you will seriously boost your focus. People bring grocery lists to the super market and go through their life without writing things down. Writing things down will help you get everything you could ever want. First and foremost because you will actually know what you want. We are human and writing things down can add a steadiness of purpose to our life so that we can reach levels of success we never dreamed of. If you can write them down on paper by hand. This also increases our focus because of the way our brain associates things together. When you are writing you use so many different hand motions that your subconscious is literally creating associative connections in your brain! You may not remember everything but, if a person is hypnotized it can reveal that you are able to recall everything that has ever been in your eye sight. When you write you are associating the thoughts you are writing down with unique movements and using your brain in different ways. Make it a habit to journal and you will start to have an amazing focus and get a lot more of what you want.
7. Meditate: There is so much going on taking a mental break is amazing! You can try it for 60 seconds and you will probably find your mind doesnt get quiet. Actually as you quiet your mind things start popping up that you wanted to remember! You might be surprised how many of these memories will come out of the dark. Years worth of memories possibly. Just by sitting there and quieting your mind. Make this a habit and you may even alter your brain structure. Studies have shown meditation to have effects on the growth of the brain. Meditation is essential thus making it a daily habit will benefit you! It could be just meditating while counting your breaths or you can take up yoga or qi gong.
8. Smile: When you smile, you feel better. People seem to enjoy being around you more. We naturally want to be rich, we want to have freedom, we want to be happy, and we like happy people. When you make smiling a habit you will smile more! If people ask you if you ever smile that might be a hint that you should smile more.
9. Practice gratitude: We all have something that we should be grateful for. Something that makes us feel blessed. Every day ask yourself the question. What am I thankful for? This helps you change your focus. No matter how bad things are going right now you can focus on something to be thankful for. It doesn't matter what it is. I'm thankful I can see. I'm thankful for my great health. I'm thankful for this person in my life. I'm thankful for all of the experiences in my life up until now. I'm thankful for this beautiful day. I'm thankful for the sky and how gorgeous it looks. I'm thankful for that beautiful meal we had. I am thankful for my wonderful family and how much love they have given me. I'm thankful for the success I have had in my life. I'm thankful for anything, you can pick anything to be thankful for. Once you make this habit you will powerful change everything! The power of perception is amazing! Once you make it a habit of putting out vibrations of love, appreciation, and thankfulness you will start to change your perception. Have you ever heard of the book Acres Of Diamonds? Well you would be surprised how much money you could be making right now if you just changed your perception. Making gratitude a habit is just about a guaranteed way to change your perception and thus change what you notice and alter your path to success!
10. Listen to music: Music is one of the mosts powerful tools to change your mood instantly. If you are down moping along you are putting success on hold. This is understandable because we have all been there. Being able to instantly pull yourself out of it with a song is invaluable! Make a list of songs that make you feel good. Sort them by mood. Break the habits of wasting time feeling bad with uplifting music! Make it a habit to nip low feelings in the bud with some uplifting music.
11. Dance: Listening to music instantly changes your mood. When you add in dancing you are bringing it to a whole new level of focus! Since the goal of this is mental making it more powerful is a great way to speed up your progress. When you dance all the different body movements create new ways to make memories through association. There may be objects, or places that make us feel bad because we associate them.
12. Sing: Have you ever heard the saying I'm not singing because I am happy, I am happy because I am singing. This is powerful singing can uplift your mood instantly. Being in a good mood is an obvious boost to your success. You know when you are hot you're hot and you keep on winning. Being able to sing yourself into a good mood is awesome! Take your favorite song and memorize it. This can be such a fun process especially if you do it with a friend. Getting into the habit of a person who controls their own emotions makes you very powerful. While your competition is failing because they are having a tough time you can excel by having something you can utilize to uplift yourself anytime. Once you make this a habit you won't even think about it anymore you will simply love to sing. This is a quick way to feel good which has so many benefits psychologically and even is shown to have a positive effect on your body.
13. Dream build: Thinking of getting what you want is a great daily practice. Just like they talk about in the movie The Secret. Imagine things and experiences that you want to experience. Imagine your dreams already realized. Imagine the next steps in your dream. Here is where you want to use your emotions as your guide. The better you feel the more powerful this exercise it. You want to ideally get to the point where you are imagining having what you want so vividly that you don't even care that you don't actually have it yet. Now this becomes very powerful when you turn it into a habit! Your emotions are the result of neuropeptides, and you can actually become addicted to them. You can develop the habit of daily anger which psychologically will lead you to do things that make you angry. This is discussed beautifully in the movie What The &%@# Do We Know? In that movie they discuss how peoples lives can be guided by this autopilot feature we all have which itself can be guided by an addiction to neuro-peptides. So when you combine all the research you can see how powerful this habit is to develop. Some keys are to focus on things you believe you can get so you have remember to check in with your emotions. If an idea is too far fetched like winning the power ball tomorrow you will not feel excited and can actually start to feel bad. You want to reach upwards as far as you can realistically. The good thing is as you practice this and make it a habit you will turn it into Bruce Lee's 2 inch punch, or Rhonda Rousey's armbar. Once you just want to do this a little more you are set. At that point you will never stop you will always grow this ability. Remember a big shot is just a little shot that kept on shooting.
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