Good Habits

2021-11-15·8 分鐘

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Habits are behaviors and patterns that you live your life every day. Having many good habits will enable you to carry out crucial activities smoothly like taking a shower, brushing your teeth, and getting ready for work. Interestingly, you follow this daily routine without thinking twice. Your unconscious habits create rooms for your brain to perform more advanced activities like problem-solving and analysis. Good habits are those that get you closer to living your best life, and are fundamental to becoming successful and happy.
Can you smile every day? A genuine smile is a good habit to have if you want to find spiritual, emotional, and mental peace of mind. Smiles help you relax and feel easy all the time.
Starting your day with healthy eating is also a good habit to have. If you want to become more successful, you need to “break your fast” with healthy food every morning. You can wake up early to fix yourself a meal so you don’t break down during the day.
One of the good habits to have is to exercise your body and muscles on a daily basis. You don’t have to run a marathon or lift tons of weights. You only need to engage in activities that make you exercise your body in, at least, 15 minutes every day.
Next, you may find a good system for managing your time and implement it. This isn’t complex to do, but does require conscious and consistent effort. You need to take notes for your schedule every day. Once this good habit has been solidified into your daily routine, anything is possible. Most people have goals. Whether it’s something to achieve in business or in life, we’re all moving in one intended direction or another. While long-term goals do give us directions, it’s the daily goals that allow us to create short-term milestones. By implementing a daily goal-setting strategy, we can overcome some of the enormity associated with achieving big things in life simply by focusing on the one-day-at-time, short-term scenarios.
Benjamin Franklin once said, “Beware of little expenses, a small leak will sink a great ship.” It’s easy to lose sight of little expenses, but they add up, especially when we fail to budget. Be sure to manage all of your expenses. You have to save every penny in order to invest your future.
Educate yourself, and learn something new every single day. From foreign languages to software programs and apps, you should carve out a small amount of time every day to dedicate to this good habit. Find something that’s worthwhile learning, and do just a little bit of it day after day.
Take the time to clean your home and office, and do just a little each day to enforce this good habit. When you finish washing your floor and enjoy the tidy environment, you can sense the importance of this good habit.
Keeping a journal every day is a great habit, too. You can make a self-examination after a whole day and try any improvement. Journaling your thoughts is a good way to reflect on who you are and what you’ve been doing in life. Time can go by so quickly that we often forget the details of what we did even a few short months ago. Those details are often novel to recall as it adds clarity and purpose to our lives. Therefore, we need this good habit of writing out our thoughts and journaling our experiences on a daily basis. This is also a powerful habit for self-reflection, and the best way to motivate and inspire ourselves going forward into the future. 
Beside, early to bed, early to rise. The early morning hours are a time for peaceful reflection and ample productivity, where the world is still and asleep, allowing us to focus wholeheartedly on our long-term goals. Begin by setting your alarm clock back by 15 minutes the first week, 15 minutes the next week and so on. Do this until you can wake up, at least, two hours earlier than you’re waking up now.
Nevertheless, we still need to value sleep. Although it’s important to wake up early every day, it’s also imperative to get ample rest. It might be difficult for you to sleep well, especially if you have kids, two jobs and other obligations. However, if you care enough about your physical well-being, along with your future success, you’ll focus on a minimum of six to eight hours of uninterrupted sleep every night.
Take action sooner rather than later. Actually, we fail to take action very often for whatever number of reasons, hindering our progress and ability to achieve any of the monumental goals we set for ourselves. The best way to overcome procrastination is to use the 15-minute rule. Take whatever it is that you’ve been putting off for the longest, set a timer on your phone for 15 minutes, and only commit to doing it for that long. After 15 minutes, you’ve built some momentum, so you might just keep on going. Once you form this good habit to take action as soon as possible, you would finish things quickly and complete a lot of things in your life.
 


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