This Daily Habit Will Make Your Life
Better Within a Month
Start this daily ritual today and watch your
life change forever.
With all that we have going on in our lives, we tend to get caught up in distractions, disruptions, and diversions.
Most of the
time we're so busy keeping up--or catching up--that we're barely aware of the way
we're living our lives.
What if you can do something for an hour every day that would
change your life--something that would give you the focus you want, the control
you want, the determination you need?
Here is a simple practice that can do all that--seriously.
Give it a try for a few days and see what starts to happen. Then
make it a daily practice and change your life forever.
Set an alarm on your watch or phone to go off at random times
during the day. Every time the alarm goes off, challenge yourself to raise the
bar. Stop, take a step back from whatever you were doing, and ask yourself how
you can improve it.
If you're working on a project,
ask yourself how can you streamline the process.
If you're having a
conversation, try to go deeper.
If you're working out, work out
harder.
If you're willing to devote an hour a day, the simple act of
challenging yourself to go deeper to work harder will end up changing your life
forever. Here are a few of the most significant ways:
1. It will give you more confidence.
Confidence comes from facing
challenges and beating them. When you spur yourself to work harder and produce
more, it actually makes you more confident. Confidence comes when you do
something better than you did it before. And, along with belief, it's what you
most need to succeed in life. Take your confidence and own it.
2. It will push you past your limits.
Our limits are often only what we
set upon ourselves--the business we never started, the idea we never put into a
plan, the partnership we never collaborated on. These are limitations we have
created. But when you can push yourself past a limitation once, you will break
it for good.
3. It will make you more focused.
If you FOCUS (Follow One Course
Until Successful), you will succeed. When you learn to truly focus your
attention, your perceptions change; your focus determines your reality. Once in
a while, when your alarm goes off, ask yourself what task can you take off your
to-do list, and then make a call or complete a chore you've been putting off.
4. It will open you up to new experiences.
The most common regret
people have is that they didn't do something because they were afraid. For some
alarms, challenge yourself to try something new or to do something a different
way. When you experience something new, you learn something new.
5. It will earn you respect.
When you go above and beyond what
everyone else is doing, you automatically stand out--especially if what you
do has quality, meaning, and impact.
6. It will help you find
meaning. When you connect with your work, you connect with the
passion behind it--and that connection will infuse everything you do with new
meaning.
What can it hurt?
Take this small challenge for a day. Who knows? It just might
change your life forever.
By Lolly Daskal
https://www.inc.com/lolly-daskal/what-you-can-do-an-hour-a-day-that-will-make-your-life-better-forever.html
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