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Create A Morning Routine That Motivates You

Motivational17th NovemberBy Jason Daly

Create A Morning Routine That Motivates You

What would it be like to begin your day organized and inspired? It would be fantastic, wouldn’t it? You would be confident that all was in order, know exactly what to do, and feel great.

Surprisingly, it doesn’t take a lot to get off to a good start every day. All you have to do is develop a morning routine which encourages and equips you for success every day.

A morning habit, or routine, is one of the keys of success for individuals who are really successful in their lives and businesses/careers. It doesn’t have to be complicated, and it really doesn’t have to take a long time to create or to follow.

It will need a commitment from you at first to plan it and then you will need to practice it daily, so it becomes a discipline that occurs without you needing to intentionally work at it.

The most focused and organized people’s morning routines typically contain the following things:

Get Up Early

Forget about extended lie-ins and hitting the snooze button every 5 minutes. Try setting your alarm an hour (or maybe two) earlier than usual and watch your productivity skyrocket.

An early morning start might not come easy at first, but as long as you get enough sleep and go to bed earlier, you’ll soon see the benefits.

Use Positive Visualization

Try setting the tone for your day by giving it a big push. Visualize your accomplishment right away. Use positive statements and keep them visible so you can view them regularly to increase their effectiveness.

If you do this stage within the first 15-20 minutes of waking, you will have a better chance of succeeding because you will be able to access your subconscious mind before your conscious mind awakens and ‘ruins things’ by taking over!

Get Some Exercise

Exercise will help to wake up your entire body by getting your heart pumping oxygen-rich blood throughout it, and your body in general. You don’t have to run 5 miles every day.

Gentle exercise, such as Tai Chi, morning stretching or yoga could be part of your workout routine to help calm and centre you while also providing time for quiet contemplation.

Drink Enough

Maintain your body’s hydration. Many people begin their morning with a glass of lemon water. Green juices or herbal teas are other fantastic options for an early morning drink to kickstart your day.

Planning

Make sure you know precisely what has to be done if you hope to have a good day. Prepare a to-do list and determine the priority order. Ensure that the list isn’t too long; 10 items or less is ideal.

Nutrition

A balanced breakfast is an excellent method to energize your body for the rest of the day. You’ll feel more awake and capable of concentrating on the activities at hand.

Reading

Spending a few minutes reading something uplifting or educational can make you feel more positive and driven. You don’t have to read for a long period; merely 10 minutes can really get your mind functioning and your motivation going.

Morning reading ideas include self-help/personal development books or autobiographies and biographies of successful folks who might inspire you and serve as role models.

Money Tasks

Before you leave for your commute or start your day at home, it’s crucial to do something that may either generate you money or keep you from wasting money.

Prep your meals for the day so you aren’t tempted to order takeout at the end of the day. Make sure the dishwasher is filled and the kitchen countertops are clean and clear so you don’t have to think about it. Pay your invoices on time to avoid overdue notices and costs.

If you want to have a great day, you must begin with a positive attitude. Having a morning routine can guarantee that your days are well-organized and that you are motivated from the very beginning.

Now that you have a fantastic morning routine and a task that has to be completed, you are inspired to execute it. However, that is only the beginning…

6 Steps To Get Into The Zone

You have a mission that you must perform. It’s something you want to do, and it’s challenging enough to keep you focused and on target without making you worried or doubting your skills.

What’s the best approach to go about it? Get into the zone, and you’ll discover that you’ll finish it faster than you imagined possible. So, how do you enter the zone?

Here are 6 basic steps that will help you get into the flow.

Step 1: Give Yourself Time – Make sure you allow yourself adequate time to finish the task. You’ll need a suitable environment for that.

Step 2: Adjust Your Environment – You will require a quiet, comfortable, and distraction-free working environment. Check that you are dressed comfortably and appropriately, that you have used the restroom, that you have eaten and drank something, and that the room temperature is comfortable for you.

Step 3: Focus On The Process – While working toward an end result (target), it is critical to focus on the activity itself. You can then free your ideas and problem-solving talents by removing any expectations and limiting thoughts.

Step 4: Engage Your Emotions – Because being in the zone is a good state of being, you must be alert and totally involved. Negative emotions will simply reduce your capacity to enter and stay in the flow state.

Step 5: Take Action – Keep the momentum rolling by remaining in a state of action. It is critical not to pause and contemplate since this will stop negative feelings such as self-doubt from coming in. You must remain completely immersed in the action, with no sense of yourself or your own ego.

Step 6: Practice – As they say, “practice makes perfect.” Therefore, by repeatedly putting yourself in the zone, you’ll develop your unique series of rituals and triggers that will help in entering the flow state. Your body will adjust as they eventually become second nature by accessing the zone quicker and easier.

If you want to enter the zone and make wonderful things happen, follow the six simple actions outlined above. Regular practice will assist you in developing your own set of triggers and rituals to help make the process easier. By doing this, you have the opportunity to live a more full and enriching life.

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5 Success Principles Every Entrepreneur Needs

Mindset3rd NovemberBy Jason Daly

5 Success Principles Every Entrepreneur Needs

Success leaves clues. If you look at some of the world’s most successful people, you’ll notice that they all share a few characteristics. It doesn’t matter what field they’re in or where they started… they all adhere to the five success principles listed below.

If you want to create your own business or grow your current one, you should follow the principles outlined below.

1. Have A Good Plan

“Plans are nothing,” stated Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States. “Preparation is everything.”

He implies that you must lay out your goals and the path you will take to achieve them.

What are your plans? What resources do you require?

You must plan everything. Life, on the other hand, has a habit of tossing us curve balls.

You can’t foretell what is going happen, so you may have to change your plans… BUT… before you go into fight, you must have a strategy.

And, yes, reaching your objectives will be a challenge. So make sure you have a good plan in place and make changes as needed.

2. Helping Others

“You can have whatever you want in life if you simply help other people obtain what they want,” Zig Ziglar once stated.

This is particularly true in business, where you must sell something in order to turn a profit. If your items solve a problem meet a need, or satisfy a demand, you can bet you’ll sell a lot of them and make a lot of money.

It all starts with thinking about other people. You’ll have a profitable business if you help people (and charge them for it).

3. Always Do The Best You Can

The most successful people are always willing to go the additional mile. They work more, train longer, and are continuously striving to surpass expectations. They understand the formula for success.

“Don’t wish it were easy,” motivational expert Jim Rohn once advised. “Wish you were better.”

And that is exactly what the best of the best do. They are constantly striving to improve.

4. Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing

If you want to be successful in life, you must concentrate on what is important. Your energy follows your focus, and you only have a certain amount of energy each day. Individuals with exceptional performance are usually extremely focused.

They are rarely couch potatoes that spend all day watching TV. You won’t find them wasting time Tweeting or screaming on Facebook. They have more important tasks to complete.

If you want to become successful, you must concentrate on actions that will lead to success. It’s really that simple.

5. Be Accountable

People that are successful hold themselves responsible for all they do. They believe they are solely accountable for their own lives… and they will not cede control of their destiny to the government or anyone else.

A sense of entitlement is the last thing you’ll find in most great achievers. They understand that the world doesn’t owe them anything. So they attack their goals with a desire and drive that millions of people lack because they expect success to be delivered to them on a silver platter.

The five principles listed above are only the tip of the iceberg, but they’re as good a place to start as any. Learn the fundamentals and gradually enhance both your life and business by eradicating procrastination, adopting healthier habits, and setting even larger goals.

“Achievers – whether in business, sports, or the arts — are committed to continual improvement.”

– Jack Canfield

How To Develop Grit

Grit is a character trait that reveals itself when one is faced with challenges, obstacles, etc. and he/she perseveres with steely resolve. It’s almost a stoic type of heroism that keeps you going despite all odds.

Grit is what you see in a Rocky movie when he keeps standing up despite getting beaten and knocked down repeatedly.

When Greg Louganis hit his head on the springboard during the 1988 Olympics diving preliminary rounds and injured himself, he did not quit. Instead, he pressed on and won the Olympic gold. This is grit.

In order to succeed in business, you’ll need grit. Anyone can decide on a goal. Anyone can come up with an idea or start a project. But to go from conception to completion will require grit.

The good news is that grit can be developed. While some people are naturally born with such a trait, most of us can learn how to stay true to ourselves and fight for what we want.

Like they say, “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”

Here are a few ways to muster up that grit…

Know Your Why

If you hate starting over, then you should not quit. When the situation you’re in seems to be wearing you down, it’s important to know why you started.

In business, there will be times when sales may slow down to a crawl. Or maybe a marketing campaign does not work. Or you took a financial hit because you misjudged a situation.

All these setbacks are merely set ups for a comeback. But if you let these situations get the better of you and quit, that will be the end of it. You won’t progress further and your goals will never materialize.

So, spend time rewriting your goals and know why you’re doing what you’re doing and you’ll develop the grit to persevere.

Practice Makes Perfect

Grit is like a muscle. The more you train it, the stronger it gets. The more obstacles and struggle you overcome, the more grit you’ll have.

You’ll have more confidence that arises from the knowledge that you’ve overcome previous difficulties and will have no problems steamrolling over the current obstacles in your way.

Do What Scares You

Set bigger goals. Take on more daunting challenges. The more adversity you overcome the more determined you’ll become. The toughest steel is forged in the hottest fires.

Push Yourself Every Day

When you’re on a quest to achieve a goal, there will be a plethora of tasks you’ll need to complete. You’ll often find that you tend to want to shirk the most important tasks.

This is your mind trying to protect you from ‘hard work’. It’s a form of self-preservation. This is why millions of people procrastinate and don’t do what they need to. Their minds don’t want them to be outside the comfort zone.

Make it a point to complete your most important tasks of the day first. By stepping outside your comfort zone on a daily basis, you’ll develop a stronger resolve and more grit.

After a certain point, you’ll have more self-discipline and will be unstoppable.

Try Kaizen

Kaizen is a Japanese practice of continuously seeking improvements regardless of how small the improvement is. It could be a 0.1% improvement daily, but that’s fine too. It’ll all add up over time.

You’ll be raising your standards and asking more of yourself. You’re ‘sharpening your sword’ daily. A few months from now, these daily improvements will transform your life for the better.

Never, Ever Quit

Finally, grit might mean just NOT quitting no matter how tough it gets. There may be times when success in business may come down to you withstanding the constant onslaught of obstacles that life throws at you.

When you can’t withstand and you’re tired of fighting, then just stand. Sometimes doing nothing and just staying calm is all you need to do – instead of quitting.

When you collect yourself, you can summon the courage and fortitude to keep going. That’s what grit is all about.

Just take one step after another gingerly no matter how steep or precarious the slope may be. Progress may be slow… but it’s still progress. That’s how you do it.

“True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.” – John Wayne

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Gaining The Confidence You Need To Succeed

A lot of people don’t realize just how important it is to have confidence before you ever begin to work on an important task. Achieving goals is often about what you’re made of. If you don’t believe in yourself and you lack the confidence that you need to get up after a setback, then it is likely that you are going to give up before you even make significant progress.

Having a success mindset is a key tool to have in your arsenal when trying to live life to the full and make the most of your skills; the way you think can make the road to success much easier or significantly more difficult, if not impossible so it is important to master your thoughts and boost your self confidence.

The first thing that you can do for yourself to begin gaining more confidence is to start thinking kinder thoughts. There is a phrase that says that we are each our own worst critic, and most of the time that is very true. When you find yourself overwhelmed by the perception you have of yourself as being not good enough or failure, then you have already sabotaged yourself before you begin working on anything.

Instead, start to keep track of the negative things that you say to yourself. Once you have a good idea of just what a big bully you are, begin interrupting those negative thoughts with positive affirmations. Think about all of the great things that you are capable of doing and the things that you have accomplished rather than dwelling on the negative events that plague your mind.

You can overcome the negativity bias. All you have to do is work hard to catch yourself when you’re having negative thoughts about yourself or your process or your progress and force yourself to think positively and acknowledge all of the hard work that you have done and will continue to do to achieve your goal.

Gaining confidence can be a lot harder if you are around other negative people, so try and make sure that you are doing everything that you can to surround yourself with positive people who believe that you can do anything that you set your mind to. Toxic people will try to bring you down and doubt yourself, but there is no law saying that you have to believe them.

Instead of spending time with people who drain you, instead, meet these outside sources of negativity with a good sense of humor. Do not let them bring you down. Allow the comments to roll off of you like water and instead of focusing on the negative, focus on the good.

Developing your sense of humor and focusing on things that you should be thankful for is a great way to stop taking stock in negative thoughts altogether and start focusing on the things that truly matter.

Sometimes, we become so consumed by our daily lives that we stop remembering that there are many things that we have to be grateful for, and opportunities that can help us move forward that other people might not have.

Remembering this can up your motivation and help you stay confident because you are remembering that you were given a great opportunity and you can make of it what you will. The power truly is in your hands. So use it for the best starting now!

Paving The Way Toward Success By Changing Your Lifestyle

The sad fact of the matter is that when you want to succeed, there are often a lot of changes that you need to make before that success is able to become a reality. Fortunately, there are many things that you can do, starting now, to prime yourself for success and begin to pave the way to a successful lifestyle!

To get on the right path, you need to begin with the fundamentals. Without tending to the basics, you are ultimately going to be overwhelmed and consumed by the tremendous amount of work it takes to become successful at any given task.

When we aren’t taking care of ourselves properly and providing ourselves with the tools we need to succeed, we are asking for trouble. Success is elusive enough without giving it more reasons to evade us!

To begin with, when we aren’t taking care of ourselves fundamentally, we are not giving our bodies the physical resources that they need to succeed. Getting enough sleep at night, making sure to eat a nourishing breakfast, and exercising daily are some of the most fundamental and important ways that we can prime ourselves for success.

Add to that making sure that you are eating healthy foods that are not processed and avoiding sugar, and you will be shocked by just how well you find yourself able to focus!

But that is just the beginning. Making changes in your life to prime yourself for success also has to do with your mind as well. Instead of spending time watching television or drowning your life in social media, replace those things with tools that will help to jump start you on the path to success, such as reading or listening to inspirational radio shows or podcasts by people who are living the dream!

Focus on books and shows that you know are going to give you information that pertains to your goal specifically, and motivational speakers and writers who will help you to get in touch with yourself and your inspiration. Listen to these sorts of speakers or read motivational books and articles at least once per day in order to really take advantage of their full affect. It’s transformative!

Another important lifestyle change to make is to surround yourself with people who are actually working toward their dreams rather than complaining about how unfair the world is for leaving them behind.

These people are toxic when you are trying to get yourself on the path to success. Humans are impressionable, and when you surround yourself with people who do not believe they can succeed, you may be more prone to doubting yourself. Surround yourself with other motivated and inspirational people and you are bound to go far!

There are many different lifestyle changes that you can make to prime yourself for success, some of them obvious and some of them less so. If you are dedicated to planning a life of achievement for yourself, and willing to make the changes necessary to succeed, then there is no way you will fail at making your dreams a reality!

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9 Truths You Must Embrace To Be Successful

It’s a no-brainer. Everyone wants to be successful, right? And in theory, everyone can be successful. But you may have noticed that most people give up way before they achieve their goal.

Or they’re happy with some short-term success, early on in their careers. They choose to stay in comfortable stagnation and think that success is only for highflyers.

But if you want to be successful at anything, you need to accept and run with some basic principles.

Here are nine hard truths you must embrace to succeed.

Success Is Different For Everyone

Not everyone perceives success in the same way. For many of us, and the way society paints it, success is about making money, having power and influence. It’s about being asset-rich with a big house, a big car, and expensive possessions.

To become truly successful, you have to work out what success means to you, not to your parents or your friends or colleagues, but you.

What sort of life do you want? Lots of travel, or the big house ideal? Or do you want to alleviate poverty or discover new health treatments? Are study and research your passion? Or do you want to balance your life and family commitments?

Maybe being home in time for family dinners and keeping your weekends free is your priority.

Take the time to work out really what success means for you. You will be much more motivated to achieve it and much happier when you get there! Whatever success means for you, focus on that.

Be Prepared For The Cost

Whatever your success goal is, you must be prepared to give up some comfort to get there. Because whenever you make a choice, you are also choosing to give something up or to miss out on something.

If you want to focus one hundred percent on being a CEO in five years times, you are choosing to spend all your energy and time on achieving that goal. There won’t be much time left over for friends or family.

There won’t be time for a lazy weekend or vacations. That’s the cost.

If you choose to prioritize family time, you are giving up the opportunity for fast-tracking your career.

None of these are bad choices, but you need to make them with your eyes open. You must understand what you’re giving up to succeed at what you want.

Whatever your decision you must be prepared to be flexible, to learn and adapt to changing circumstances. You must be ready to grow and to sit with discomfort.

Prepare For Some Pain

Being successful may not be a comfortable road. In fact, comfort is the enemy of success. If you’re comfortable, your energy goes down. You’re not going to take chances, and you’re not going to explore.

If you want to stay in the same position, if you choose safety, then that’s your choice – but accept that this will not lead to a successful life.

To be successful, you have to choose to learn and evolve and grow. You’ll need to engage with the world and be open to possibilities. It’s not a hard-nosed race to the top but a journey to becoming your best you.

Growing and learning and being prepared to start again, acknowledging that you don’t know everything – these can be painful concepts to accept. And that is why most people choose not to learn and grow.

But the road to success requires you to be humble. It requires you to accept that you still have so much to learn. To be truly successful you need to be constantly changing, constantly becoming a better version of yourself.

Prepare To Fail

Fear of failure is what prevents many people from succeeding. They think that failure is final and conclusive and ends up defining you as a person. The most successful people allow themselves to fail.

They pick themselves up, recover and learn from what went wrong. Failure can and does happen to everyone. Sometimes factors outside your control can scuttle your project. Sometimes you make mistakes.

But regardless of how you came to fail there is only one way out that leads to success.

You assess, and you learn, and you don’t make that mistake again. You don’t beat yourself up. You see that failure as a stepping stone to your future success.

Don’t Confuse Willpower With Commitment

People tend to mistake willpower for commitment. Just wanting something to happen will not make it so. That’s why most New Year’s resolutions don’t work.

If you rely on willpower, you will run out of energy fast. You’ll get discouraged, and you’ll give up, thinking that success is not for you.

If willpower is teeth-gritting, ‘in spite of’ negative energy, commitment is a different kettle of fish. Commitment is positive. It assumes that your goal is achievable and getting there will happen. It is a considered approach to achieving goals.

Commitment focuses your energy, your mind and your passion on achieving something that is truly important to you. If you’re committed to your goal, you will plan and work and adapt to get there.

Show Up

Persistence and consistency will beat innate talent every time. To achieve anything, you have to show up and keep showing up day after day, week after week, month after month.

You have to do the work and keep doing the work. And like any project, each step builds on the last. A big goal might seem impossible if you try to do it all at once or expect to get there in a week.

But by breaking your big goal into smaller steps, you’ll slowly build up one small win after another.

Before you know it, you will accomplish what you set out to achieve.

Plan For Success

Key to this is accepting that you need to treat your goal of lasting success as a marathon, not a sprint. Short bursts of activity will leave you depleted and discouraged and more than likely you’ll give up.

Success is a lifetime project. If you truly want to be successful, treat it like any other big project.

Work out what resources you need, plan your short, medium and long-term goals and deliverables. Take it seriously enough to make a proper strategic plan and prepare to adapt as the environment changes.

The other advantage of mapping your success is that you consciously take control of your destiny. Planning for success means you don’t think of success as a mysterious innate talent or a piece of luck. It is something you can decide to have and work hard to achieve.

Discard The First Draft

Successful people know that they won’t achieve their goal immediately. Or even anytime soon. They know that whether your goal is to write a book, discover the cure for cancer, or win an Olympic medal, your first efforts will suck.

If you’ve ever written a job application or a presentation, you know how hard it is to get that first draft done. But you have to get it done to get it out of the way. Then you can get on with writing the better version.

And there will be lots of versions before you get one that you’re happy with and finally use.

Take heart from Edison, who famously tried more than a thousand times to invent the light bulb that worked. In his view he merely got thousands of poor alternatives out of the way, so he could invent the one that did work.

Don’t give up at the first obstacle. If your first version sucks, be glad you’ve got that out of the way, so that you can get closer to the right one.

Learn To Say No

If you’re focused on achieving success, you’ll have to learn to say no. And not just say no to things you don’t want to do. You’ll have to turn down some really attractive offers, things that sound like fun, even opportunities that sound great.

Because if they don’t align with your goal, they are just distractions. Saying yes to too many things scatters your energy. Obligations that you feel you can’t refuse are also distractions.

You can learn to say no politely but firmly to all the things that prevent you from achieving success. You might have to be prepared to disappoint people you care about, even yourself.

If an opportunity for a vacation with friends comes up and that clashes with a work priority, you’ll have to choose between pleasure and achieving success.

Being aware of the opportunity cost will help you to say yes to the great opportunities that align with your goal, and you will be successful.

Mastering success above all means being aware of what you’re choosing and why. Consciously working out your version of success and working towards it will help you to have a happier, more meaningful life. It means choosing growth and learning and adapting.

Above all, it means choosing a path that may not be easy but leads to your success.

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