In the sea of habits that could enhance your life, only a few of them stand out from the
rest and give you an edge in life.
1. Get Continuous Rest Working in a high capacity for a long period
of time can exhaust anyone, and if you are not taking the proper amount of time to rest,
your body will crash, and it will have consequences on everything you do.
That’s why it makes a lot of sense to start everything here. Now, I won’t tell you to
sleep for 8 hours every night or to wake up at a specific hour. That’s entirely up to
you. Instead, your goal should be to find the right
time to go to bed and the right time to wake up, so you can get enough rest, remain healthy
and feel energized.
2. Wake up Early The moment you step outside and let the daily
momentum kick in, you slowly reduce the control over how your day pans out. That control is
difficult to re-gain later in the day. That’s why it’s essential to wake up earlier
and use the first couple of hours so that you can take control over your state of mind
and your body. In those few hours, you’ll kickstart the day in the way it suits you
best.
3. Eat Healthy & Exercise The sedentary lifestyle is slowly killing
us, and we are not even noticing it. You need to make a deal with yourself that
no matter what happens in your life, health comes first — which means that you need
to take care of yourself first before you engage in anything else.
There are only two things you need to keep in mind:
Healthy Diet Physical Activity
Make small actions every day, and let the compound effect do its thing.
4. Meditate We live in a world where everything is designed
to steal your attention (including this article), and that makes it challenging to find a peaceful
moment just for yourself. And these moments are necessary if we’re
going to keep clarity and calmness of our mind.
That’s why you need to find few minutes a day — preferably earlier in the day,
to create a grounding effect that will help you center yourself, and re-focus on what’s
important. If nothing, just to breathe and calm your
thoughts.
5. Plan It’s easy to get swept away with the dynamic
environment we live in. Because of this, you need to constantly pull
yourself back and plan out how you want your life to unfold instead of letting the external
circumstances do it for you. Execution is what matters, but this depends
solely on your ability to plan and follow through on that plan.
6. Focus on High Leverage Activities Not all things you do will give you a high
return on investment. Your time is precious, and you should be careful
where you’re allocating it. Whenever in doubt, look at your plan, and
ask yourself: What are the 20% of activities that will yield
the 80% of the results? And then do it.
7. Acquire New Skills Know that your goals dictate what you need
to learn. You should never randomly acquire skills.
Try instead to learn the skills that will help you achieve your goals, no matter in
what area of your life. Know that every skill you acquire will not
be beneficial on its own but will stack up with every skill you’ve acquired earlier,
and you will start moving forward.
8. Read Reading, no matter the genre sparks creativity
and unleashes your imagination. The reason for this is because every new idea
a book can offer (no matter how small it seems) interacts with the knowledge you already have.
So whenever you open a book, look for just one idea, and see how you can apply it in
everyday life.
9. Interact with Doers If you are the most active person in the room,
you are in the wrong room. Find people that are doing something incredible
with their lives and learn from them. Even interacting with people who are driven
and are accomplishing something in their life will serve as an inspiration. It will get
you to take action.
10. Reflect & Evaluate Time is passing by faster than ever because
we have more things that preoccupy us. This makes it challenging to take a break
to reflect and evaluate how our lives are turning out.
So, just before you go to bed, give yourself a goal to evaluate your day and what can be
improved the next day. Not only this but every couple of months you
should take a day or two to evaluate your plans. To see what delivers results, and what
needs to be cut. Then, adapt your plan and don’t be afraid
to pivot if necessary.