5 simple habits that will help you achieve goals faster

All the people about something dream and set some goals, but only a small part reaches these goals. You know what sets these people? Their habits. That habits determine how the proceeds of human life and what it achieves.

I'm not going to "pump up" your motivation in this article, but only want to share five good habits that will help you achieve goals faster. Begin to incorporate these habits into your life you can have today.

1. Develop self-discipline

Big wins are achieved only through discipline. only mediocre initial results are possible without discipline. Believe it or doubt it, but it's true.

Do you know what laziness? There are many definitions of this phenomenon, but because of all the one I like:

Laziness - it is a lack of discipline.

Just imagine how cool it would change your life, if you do all those things that have to do, but do not because of their laziness. Lack of discipline turns a man into a weak, helpless loser.

And the question is, how to learn to be disciplined. The good news is that easy to develop the discipline (not required some phenomenal action), it is difficult to maintain this discipline at the proper level.

This is what should be understood, if you want to develop discipline.

Scientists, it was found that the power of human will - a resource that has depleted the property. In other words, willpower is gradually consumed during the day.

Please note that the most stupid decisions, we usually take at the end of the day? Because willpower is running out.

I will not give references to research. Instead, I recommend to read the book Kelly McGonigal, which is called "Strength of will». This book has all the necessary evidence and scientific justification.

So, if at the end of the day willpower consumed, its peak in the morning. And if so, it makes sense to accustom themselves to the discipline in the morning, when it has to supply the necessary will.

Many different exercises you know, but I want to tell the most simple: train yourself to wake up early. Promise yourself to get up at 6am the next 30 days (excluding weekends) and follow his promise. Believe that every day wake up so early, need discipline. But if you break your promise and you can not show discipline, even in this simple case, then what about the high achievements are we talking about?

2. Fueled his mind to develop the intellect

There is a category of people, we call them nerds who like to think that all the power in knowledge. These people read a lot and gladly absorb new information. Part of this makes sense, but on the whole this philosophy is far from the truth.

Strength - this knowledge, backed by practice. Anyone who did not take out his head from the books, something to try, will gain strength. But the nerd who tries to apply this knowledge, it is a different story. A striking example - this is Bill Gates.

We are fueling our body, absorbing different foods. What happens if we overeat? We gain weight, become sluggish, and overall excess kilograms harm our health.

The situation is similar with the mind. It also needs only fuel and not zakarmlivat everyone.

The easiest thing to get you started - is reading those books, of which knowledge can help on the way to your goal.

Start reading 10 pages a day (can more read more). Read 10 pages he will not take a lot of time (for example, I do it in the morning, after waking up). The average number of pages in the book? About 300. This means that you will read one book per month and 12 per year. This is a very good result.

The ability to learn - it is also a habit that requires effort.

3. Observe the balance between work and leisure

There is an opinion that you need to work smarter, not harder. It seems to me that this philosophy is far from reality. Perhaps, with this slogan, you can sell more books, but in the real world, "hard work" is almost always wins "smart work".

I did not hear any more stories about how someone without much effort, using some clever way, has achieved success in a short period of time. Usually precedes triumph hard work, and already comes with experience lightness and apparent simplicity. In my opinion, the combination of hard work with an intelligent approach is ideal for which to strive.

But the hard work is draining both mentally and physically. And in order to avoid "burnout" and again operating at full capacity, it is necessary to recharge the batteries. In a world still needs a rest, and you are no exception.

I met people who said he did not need to rest. But in fact their response lies another reason: they do not think they deserve this vacation.

It is not necessary to turn to the person who is at work thinking about the rest, and on holiday - on the work. This is not good. Look for a balance between work and leisure. What does it mean? This means to take actions that help your body and mind recover.

Such actions are a meditation for me, sport and healthy sleep, as well as my family, friends and hobbies. To all this, I try to find time. You also need to find her.

All work and do not find time for entertainment - a feature of boring people. You want this to be?

4. Watch your energy

We can not at full speed to follow their goals when our fuel tank is empty. This means that if we want to be as efficient and productive in the work on your goals, we need to learn to monitor the level of its energy and regulate it.

There are so many different factors that affect the level of physical energy in the body. Full list cause I do not see sense, it is very long. Instead, I recommend a wonderful book by Jim Loher "Life at full power!». There is written about it in detail.

I will give a few recommendations on his own behalf:

1. Find the period of time when you are the most effective, and builds his work schedule in accordance with it. For example, I have long noticed that the most effective in the intervals between 8:00 and 13:00. During this period, the energy out of me just gushing. Therefore, their most important business - if possible - I try to schedule at this time.
2. Choose environment. Gossip, negative and depressed people - are energy vampires. I have noticed that it is necessary to communicate with these people and the desire to work somewhere disappears. Therefore shuts itself off from those who slows you down towards the goals.

And remember that you are still limited by its reserves of physical energy, and therefore need to think in advance how it properly distributed to not get that small business you have exhausted even before you got down to something important.

5. Learn to control your fear

Have you noticed for a such that the working days on end tirelessly as the promised results never get?

One explanation is that the brain is quietly slips you only those tasks on which work the most safe and economical in terms of energy consumption. So it preserves and protects us from the fatigue and danger. This is one of the functions of the brain.

All great achievements are out of your comfort zone. But the problem is that, as we approach the comfort border, includes a protective mechanism, which is called fear.

The nature of fear is being conceived as a warning of the danger, and without it humanity would be unlikely to survive. But in our situation, the fear of making a man of us is unable to achieve its goals. Fear does not allow us to become who we want to become. Fear clouds the mind and prevents us from realizing their full potential.

Therefore, we must learn to control your fear. Without it, unfortunately, no way. The truth is that fear has no control over you than you let him do. Fear - it is just a signal that the front of the discomfort. Man is able to simply ignore your own, if you really wanted to.

For example, when I feel an attack of fear or strong emotion, then start to breathe deeply and often. If circumstances permit, then dedicate 10 minutes of meditation to clear your mind. And it helps me relieve the tension.

But you have to stop on the way to the goal - it's not the only thing capable of fear. Fear - it is also a beacon that points the shortest way to the goal. Because usually what we fear is the thing to do in the first place. Keep this in mind and use it.

My advice to you is never to focus their attention on how much you are afraid. Think about what the reward is waiting for you after you will overcome your fear.

Personally, I used to think about their efforts to combat terror as any card, paying I get an opportunity to play in the "major league". Those who can not or will not pay this fee to play in the "lower division", where there is a great responsibility, but the reward is another, much more modest.