9 habits will help to be energetic and cheerful every day
Productivity / / December 23, 2019
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Entrepreneur and author of a blog about self-development Scott Young (Scott Young) shared tricks that help him stay alert and never give up on the way to the goal. Try to incorporate them into their lives.
1. Early to bed to sleep
If you do not regularly get enough sleep, your productivity will inevitably begin to fall. While some claim that they work best when they sleep six hours or less, it is not supported by research. Seven to eight hours of sleep are required if you want to keep long mental clarity.
Some lack of sleep is expressed in a small but persistent fatigue during the day. You may even feel that it does not affect you. but experiments confirmedThat lack of sleep causes a steady decline in mental performance. This applies to those who sleep 4-6 hours or less.
Task: try for a month to go to bed at ten o'clock. Every day, even on weekends.
2. Every day, go in for sports
Training - a long-term investment in your energy. Without physical activity decreases the overall level of health and, therefore, to think clearly and concentrate becomes more difficult.
If you have a busy schedule, often do not have time for trips to the gym. Therefore, during the day or do push-ups burpee. These exercises improve blood circulation and do not require a lot of time. If possible, add to this fitness classes or a workout in the gym.
Task: Make at least ten burpee day.
3. Go take a nap during the day
It is not laziness, and a good habit with a lot of positive effects on the body, including the memory. Daytime sleep is particularly useful if you are trying to remember a lot of new information. In addition, it recharges, because after lunch we usually feel tired. Even if your work is not a single place where you can take a nap, try to use for the rest of the work break.
The main thing - to sleep for long. Need to wake up as soon as an alarm clock and not let himself doze off again. If too stretch naps, you will go into a deep phase and wakes up even more sluggish than lay. While the benefits of such a dream, too, will, you just feel it later when erode drowsiness.
Task: highlight the 20 minutes in the afternoon to take a nap and recharge.
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4. Makes it difficult to work in the morning
The first four hours of the day - the best time for important work. So get down to business as soon as possible. The benefit of this for the most part psychological, because the energy level often depends on the mood. When we dealt with the important work, the mood is improving, we feel productive. But if in the morning we spend a lot of time on e-mail, meetings, phone calls, and do not do anything of value, on the contrary, feel fatigue in the afternoon.
Besides work concentrated all day is impossible. This is another reason to take on the important work of the morning, when you have more power, and not to break it into several segments throughout the day.
Task: select the first four hours of the day focused on the peaceful work.
5. Make a plan for the next day in the evening
The energy level is often dependent on how we start the day. If you just hit the ground hard, you overcome procrastination and did a good job. If you start slowly, all the time and effort will go on unproductive things.
To avoid this, you need to clearly understand how to pass the day. Especially morning. And for this you need to make plans for the evening. Visualize your goal and write them down in the morning to act on the machine.
Task: before going to bed, visualize and record a plan for tomorrow.
6. Sell currently own goals
Many believe simultaneously in two opposing statements: that marketers are able to convince them to do a lot of things, which they themselves would not have done, but they themselves can not afford to change their own motivation to accomplish what necessary.
This is not true. You need to sell yourself their own goals. It all begins with the packaging. The way you formulate your goals and projects, strongly influences motivation. Compare two expressions: "the work which I have to do" and "exciting interesting challenge." You see the difference?
The next step - to remind yourself that you inspiration. Remember why you got down to business, what they wanted to achieve. The client must visualize their desire to make a purchase, and good marketing to help him in this. And you need to visualize what you want to achieve in order to have energy to do so.
Task: stands out for 10 minutes a day to think about what you are helping to move today's actions.
7. Less communicate with people who have pulled out of your energy
Parents are not selected. Sometimes it extends to colleagues and superiors. But here's the friends you can choose from. Surely you've noticed that after talking with some friends feel the excitement and vivacity. But after talking with others, on the contrary, lack of energy.
Of course, should not be excluded from the life of friends who are temporarily going through a difficult period. But if a person regularly pours you your emotions and helps you answer, think about the need to communicate with him. Yes, sometimes all you need is to cry in his waistcoat, but some people like to do it consistently.
Task: Limit meetings with friends, after communicating with whom feel devastated.
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8. Read a good book
A good book will automatically switch you to the idea of what you need to work. It does not just tell some facts and gradually change your thinking. Like a good song can cause a certain emotion and a good book can energize. This is best suited to audiobooks, because they can be turned on while you are traveling or busy with other things.
Task: Always have on hand a book that motivates you to move toward goals.
9. Strive for balance in your life
We spend a lot of energy is wasted, because different aspects of our lives - both foreign and domestic - are contradictory. You can constrain a colleague who does not wish to increase your friends who laugh at your goals, or own fears and doubts.
Take the time and try to unravel the conflicts that have accumulated in your life, and find ways to resolve them. Sometimes it is enough to change just one thing. Sometimes you need a long term plan to get rid of toxic conditions or beliefs that keep you from moving forward.
Task: Think that helps you move toward the goals, and what hinders, and how to resolve these contradictions.
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