![]() To start with you may feel like you’re not doing it properly but there is no right or wrong way and you only get better with practise. No one is an instant master of mediation. Meditation improves brain function, increases your attention span, reduces stress and anxiety, helps you appreciate life more, improves sleep and can also help with your metabolism. Meditation is another common habit of highly successful people. Whether it’s walking the dog, going for a run, joining a gym, putting on an exercise DVD at home or taking a tennis class with a friend, get moving. Start to include exercise in every day life, take the stairs, don’t fight for the car park closest to the shop doors, pace while you’re stuck on the phone or put some energy into the housework. Exercise is a great time to de-stress and let your worries of the day melt away. ![]() Whether you make the time (not have, make) in the morning, afternoon or evening, including at least 30 minutes of exercise in your day is one of the best habits you can get into.Įxercise not only helps you to lose weight or maintain weight but also prevents health conditions and diseases (heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, depression, certain types of cancer and arthritis), improves your mood, boots energy and promotes better sleep. By having enough time to get ready, have breakfast, maybe exercise or meditate you will feel more focused, energised and relaxed. Start by making it 5 minutes earlier each day or every two days, small enough that your body won’t notice the change, but enough to start a new habit. If you’re not a morning person don’t get excited and just set your alarm for an hour earlier than you normally would tomorrow. Having more time in the morning to get ready before work not only makes you feel more organised but gives you time to exercise, meditate or maybe just read the newspaper with a coffee and collect your thoughts for the day. Research has shown you will feel foggy and unfocused throughout the day.īecome a morning person you’ll find many successful people wake up at least 1-2 hours earlier. Turning off the alarm or hitting snooze and closing your eyes again will start a new stage of this sleep, which your brain will still be in long after you’ve forced yourself to wake up. It occurs just before you wake up, if you have an alarm set it will pull you right out of your REM stage. REM sleep is your most restorative stage of sleep. These alarms and snoozes mess with your REM sleep. Turn off the second and third alarm how many alarms and back up alarms do you have set? It’s time to turn off the emergency alarms and stop hitting snooze and start training your body to wake up on your first alarm. Exposure to these blue lights essentially tricks our body into thinking it’s morning which makes it much harder to fall asleep. Melatonin is the chemical in your body that makes you feel sleepy. Put down you phone research has shown the blue light that emanates from our phones, tablets and screens impacts the way our body produces melatonin. Writing down your to-do’s for the next day and anything that’s on your mind gives your brain a chance to relax, it’s not under any pressure or stress. Get out your pen and paper if you tend to find your mind racing at bed time, thinking about everything you have to remember for tomorrow or forgot to do today then start making a to do list before you get into bed. One of the most important habits of successful people is making sure you not only get enough sleep but making sure it’s a deep, unbroken sleep. Research has shown that reading on a screen can slow you down between 20% and 30%. If you’re struggling to find time in the beginning opt for a traditional book over an e-book. Getting engrossed in a good book, no matter what it is your reading, can also help reduce stress and anxiety that’s built up through the day. ![]() ![]() Just like going for a run exercises your cardiovascular system, reading and exercising your brain can improve you memory function. ![]() Not only does daily reading make you smarter it also increases your brain power. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go” – Dr Seuss.Įven if only for 15 minutes a day reading should be a part of your daily routine. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. Today I’m sharing with you seven habits of highly successful people. Have you ever wondered why some people are more successful than others? Yes, I hear some of you saying, given opportunities, right place right time, money etc, but even if some people had a helping hand successful people have more important things in common. ![]()
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