You’ve made up your mind: you’re going to be a huge success. You have your goals in place. You have a great game plan. You’re ready to take action and do the work to get there. You know you can make it. Nothing’s going to stand in your way. Day 1 begins. You’re raring to go. You’re full of energy, enthusiasm and excitement. Things don’t go exactly as planned but you tell yourself you can make up for it the next day. Day 2 begins and you’re still excited but by mid-afternoon, you can see that you won’t be able to check everything off your to-do list You’re starting to feel a little frustrated. You’re trying hard but things just keep getting away from you. Unexpected phone calls. Unforeseen meetings. Over the next few days, you find …show more content…
Most people forget to factor in one important piece of the puzzle: unpredictability Life can be erratic. Human beings are impulsive. Your environment can change in a second. Many don’t realize that the road to success isn’t so much a road as it is a winding, path full of unexpected obstacles. The way I see it, your best bet is to stack the odds in your favor. Aim to control, shape and direct your day with rituals and strategies that increase productivity, motivation and focus. So, when you’re faced with the inevitable unforeseen challenge or delay, you’ll get back on track without breaking a sweat. Here are 3 out-of- the-ordinary daily rituals that will help you hit your goals and create massive success no matter what else is going on in your life Ritual #1 Reflect and Regroup You have big dreams and you have your eye on the prize but it’s the little things can trip you up. When you’re in the midst of a busy day, it’s easy to get carried away with tasks that don't move you toward your goals. Avoid this by taking time out in the middle of the day to reflect and regroup. Look at what you’ve accomplished up until that point. If you’re not where …show more content…
But there’s a catch… You need to break away from your habitual routine. Throughout history, the world’s most creative individuals have known this, instinctively. Alexander Graham Bell was known for his incredibly rigid daily routine. It is believed that he planned every minute of his day and woke up and went to bed with tedious regularity. But Bell understood the power of breaking away from routine. When he was gripped by a creative idea, he’d allow himself to be swept away by the force of it — his rigid routine in shambles. So, if you’re in the middle of a creative phase or if you’re looking for a new idea, consciously step out of your daily habits. Skip your favorite breakfast spot and try a new cafe, catch up with an old friend in the middle of the week, go for a swim instead of your regular run. Every little change counts. When you break away from your routine, it forces your brain to rewire and work in new ways. This ignites creativity and you’re likely to find yourself suddenly full of exciting, new ideas. Help yourself with supportive habits and daily rituals like these so you
Christopher McCandless’ long, fascinating, but an ultimately fatal journey into the wilderness of Alaska is depicted in the biography, Into the Wild, written by Jon Krakauer. Late in the of summer of 1990, a very young Christopher McCandless left his ordinary world in Annandale, Virginia to pursue a solitary life in the untamed wilds of Alaska. Many will insinuate that Christopher McCandless’ actions were childish and idiotic, but a stronger argument would be that his unconventional thinking and desire to live life on his own terms allowed him to reach self-actualization.
My first step to this was planning out the days and times in which I would go to the gym. I decided to go at three different times on thee days. 9:00 am, 3:00 pm. and 6:00 pm. I would go into the gym and do my normal lifting workout for swimming. I’d be careful to take mental notes as to what other
I don’t think there is anything in ideas. When a young writer tells me he has an idea for a story, he means he has had an emotion that he wants to pass on. An artist has an emotion, and the first thing that he wants to do with it is to find some form to put it in, a design. It reacts on him exactly as food makes a hungry person want to eat. It may tease him for years until he gets the right form from the emotion.”
There is much controversy over whether or not minors should be tried and convicted as adults; most often with cases involving murder.
Exercise at moderate power for no less than 2 hours and 30 minutes spread through the span of every week.
I am adventurous. No I don't sky dive, wrestle crocodiles, or swim with sharks, but when asked by a group of friends to go cliff diving last summer, my best response was, “Sounds like fun!” I had never been afraid of heights yet have never experienced the thrill of cliff diving. All I could ask myself was, “What could go wrong?”
Dreams are one of the hardest accomplishments to achieve in life today, But they are also
I should receive a passing grade in this class because I can write now. Not just an exaggeration, but after another semester of English I finally feel confident that can write. Three of the reasons behind my confidence is I learned, I experienced and best of all I repeated. These three values helped prepare me for what is in store in English 1302 and here is why.
Learn to manage your time wisely. Plan ahead! Time management can help you stay calm and focused regardless of the current situation you are in.
On Wednesday afternoon around 12:30pm I found a few important school papers that needed to be returned with my youngest son. I had stuck the papers on the shelf in the dining room so they wouldn’t be on the table when we ate dinner the night before. Since they were no longer front and center in my vision I forgot to put them back into my son’s book bag the night before. I didn’t move them back to the table but was sure I’d remember to send them to school the next day. Except I didn’t remember and at 8am on Thursday morning after my husband had left with the kids, I saw the papers again as I walked through the dining room. I think I kept forgetting to about the papers because I had put them over to the side, out of sight, out of mind. I also had a lot on my mind that week. I was busy with classwork, planning a trip to Texas, tying up loose ends at my small business I run, and planning a birthday party for my daughter and the Halloween party for my one son’s class the following week. My mind was constantly on overload. Dr. McPhersons (2014) explains that when a person is overly busy and has lots of things going on inside their mind, then one can expect memory to fail at times. I liked Dr. McPherson’s advice that we shouldn’t go by what we think we can handle and remember, but what we can manage to handle and remember. Sometimes I just have too much going on inside my head to manage exactly
So taking time to do something more entertaining helps me take a break from stressful work. Then when I get back to it, I feel more confident that I can focus and finish it. That’s an example of active procrastination for me. Frank Partnoy shows historical views on procrastination, in an article about his book, such as how “The Greeks and Romans generally regarded procrastination highly. The wisest leaders embraced procrastination and would basically sit around and think and not do anything unless they absolutely had to” (Gambino 2012).
Overcoming adversity is imperative. In fact, you can 't have the happiness and success you want unless you have adversity in your life and overcome it. It is essential for progressing into who you want to be. It shows you what you are made of. It teaches you more about yourself, how to approach what you want, and how to maintain the success that you have. Without it, you wouldn 't know how far you could go or how capable you are because you wouldn 't have anything to push you or compare to.
Have you ever woken up in the morning and felt like not going to the college the whole day? Of course you have. You think of skipping all the classes, but then you contemplate on the consequences of the choice. The attendance will suffer. You’d miss out on that important question or in some people’s case you’d miss out on the exam. You vote against it and go. Now in the above case you had a choice of whether to go to the classes or not, and you chose to go. That decision may prove to be fruitful or a rather disastrous one, but whatever it may be you have to deal with the consequences that come with it. We make countless decisions every day, every moment and once a choice has been made, the actions play out, and the consequence is delivered. We have to live with those consequences. Our choices and decisions guide our lives and build our futures. Whether people notice it or not, the choices we make today affect our tomorrow.
I am sure we have all felt like there is not enough time in a day to get everything accomplished that we wanted.
“Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.