Habits–1% Improvements
Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! It’s 5:20 AM and time to get up. I wake up at the same time every morning and do the same daily tasks as part of my morning routine. I drink water, write 3 pages, visualize, exercise, and study my scriptures. My morning routine has become a habit. It is something I perform regularly and automatically. We all have habits. Some are good and some are bad. Kissing your kids before bed is a good habit. Yelling at your kids to get their chores done is a bad habit. Drinking water is a good habit. Drinking soda is a bad habit. James Clear teaches in his…
The Power of Habits
I love when I hear the same message from different sources in a short amount of time. This morning I listened to two podcasts that talked about the importance of habits. One was specific to habits and crises and the other was about habits and results. Both had great information, and I want to share some of the notes I took while listening. (No, I don’t usually take notes when listening to podcasts, but today I just HAD to.) PODCAST #1“This is not the time to throw out everything that worked. This is the time to dig-in to what worked. Consistency compounds. We are not created by the things we…
The Last 90 Days Challenge 2019
2019 is almost over, which means the New Year will be here sooner than you think. For most people, a new year means new goals and intentions. It sometimes also means spending the last few months of the year doing whatever you want. Have you ever decided that your diet would start on Monday then unintentionally (or intentionally) eaten everything unhealthy you could get your hands on because you knew it would be the last time you would be able to eat it? The end of the year is like that—eating junk because you’ll set healthy eating goal in January, moving less because you’ll set an exercise goal in January,…
Divine Discontent and Habits
I gave a little presentation at a church activity last week about creating habits to bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be. A lot of speakers call the feelings we feel in the gap “divine discontent”. Divine discontent comes when we compare what we are to what we have the power to become. Brian Tracy, in his article Listen to Your Divine Discontent, compares our emotional state to our physical state. He teaches that our physical bodies express pain when something isn’t right. In the same way our emotional bodies express unhappiness when something is awry. “Just as the natural physical state is health…
7 Steps to Set You Up for SUCCESS
Last week I went to see Rachel Hollis’ Made for More documentary with some girlfriends. First, I love hanging out with my friends, and I realized I don’t do it enough. This year I want to make a better effort to get together with them. Second, it was an awesome learning experience! Rachel puts on a personal development conference every year and, because she gets that not everyone has the money or the ability to attend her 3 day conference, she provides some hi-lights in the form of a documentary. It’s for anyone who can get to the movie theater and buy a ticket. She wants everyone to have a…
Helping your Mental Development
We are taking the week off of school. (That’s one of the benefits of homeschooling.) It’s been nice. We’ve gotten a few projects done, had some time to volunteer, and spent time doing Christmas activities. It’s been a little hard on my oldest, though, because there isn’t a real schedule. She thrives on a schedule. I like schedules, too, but this week I’ve just been creating a to-do list and chuncking my time. Our morning routine has stayed the same. Meals and bed times are the same. But everything in the middle has been free time and project time. I’ve gotten a lot done. Her? Not so much. Because I…
The Daily Dozen (minus 2)
One of my favorite personal development speakers, Chris Brady, likes to ask, “20 years from now, what will you wish you had done today?” He talks a lot about how consistently productive daily habits, compounded over time, create success. He says that successful people aren’t lucky or blessed to be in their current situations, they just did the right things, consistently. Chris recently gave a talk called The Daily Dozen in which he listed 12 habits that he thinks are important. This is post is modeled after that talk, but with fewer and different habits that I think are important. ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————– Habit #1 Read from your core book every day. Your core…
