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Today’s video will focus on 5 key habits to master during the next year to be successful
in school, university or even in your work.
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1.
Not surprisingly, I believe that the first habit you need to absolutely master this year
is habit tracking.
No need in trying to create and stick to new habits if you can’t track whether you are
successful at sticking to those habits or not.
If you can’t keep up with the simplicity of checking certain tasks out of your daily
list, then it will be harder to understand whether those habits are actually being integrated
into your life or not.
2.
The second habit you need to master is assigning one hundred percent of your attention to whatever
you are doing right now.
I have talked about the harmful aspects of multitasking when doing school work, but this
principle applies to everything else.
Practice your time and attention allocation by focusing on the simple and major tasks,
whether it’s working or spending time with your family.
If you are writing a paper or organizing your taxes, commit to doing that and only that
for the amount of time you defined.
If you have picked a Saturday afternoon to spend some quality time with your friends
and family, make sure you are not scrolling through facebook for hours while you are sitting
on the couch with them.
Engage, talk and be present.
By committing one hundred percent of your attention to different aspects of your life,
you are allowing yourself to be productive in your work and also be emotionally productive
during your leisure time, and that is key to a happy, balanced life.
3.
The third habit is to create responsible, attainable to-do lists and actually doing
those things.
For the overachiever, creating a daily to-do list composed of five items is unbearable
but listing dozens of things to do without priorities or time slots in mind can destroy
your productivity.
The best way to do this is learning more about calendar blocking, which is the fool proof
way to make sure that you are being reasonable when creating your to-do list.
Whether you do this digitally or in paper format, allocating tasks to slots of time
is the best way to understand how you should be spending your time.
When your day is full, there’s no way you can fit in more tasks, since you know that
it is physically impossible to accomplish them.
If there’s still something that you think is important to fit in your day, you can always
replace something.
That’s prioritizing tasks and your time and will positively impact your success during
the year.
4.
The fourth habit to master is consistent review of your progress.
This can apply to almost everything, including your average, financial or business goals,
and even your reading challenges.
However, review of your progress doesn’t only mean understanding if you are accomplishing
your goals or making progress towards your goals, but also understanding if your goals
are changing.
For instance, if you are attempting to get a certain average because you want to get
into a certain career path, you need to keep reviewing your progress and also your choice:
do you still want to get into that particular career path?
No matter what your goals are, check once in a while whether your priorities have shifted,
and track those transformations and plan towards them.
5.
The final habit is a reset routine once in a while.
This is something that I do when I’m feeling overwhelmed or when something new has happened
in my life, as well as during transition phases.
A reset routine is basically dedicating a couple of hours to go through everything that’s
going on and deciding the next strategy.
This is when I usually develop plans for my channel or new schedules to create new habits.
For study related things, a reset routine usually consists on me organizing my notes,
creating lists of topics and chapters that I need to review, create a study schedule
for future exams and so on.
It’s also when I review financial things, tax information, schedule doctor’s appointments
or go through my folders and organize old bills and receipts.
Although it takes a couple of hours of intensive work, it allows me to prioritize, come up
with new plans and understand if everything is on track.
A good reset routine also gives you closure for certain projects and makes way for new,
better things down the road.
The regularity of your own reset routine is up to you but it should accommodate the major
areas that stress you and that you need to organize and should be done frequently so
you can avoid feeling overwhelmed.
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