Success and failure do not come overnight, they are a result of what you have been doing on a regular basis.
An article in marcandangel.com lists out a few strategies which will help in making little sustainable shifts in your behaviour.
* Instead of rushing to reach the top of the ladder, take some time to breathe and focus on what you are doing and have some clarity on it.
This will help you in avoiding climbing the wrong ladder.
Your time spent focusing inward and finding clarity doesn’t just help you – your mind is powerful and your thoughts create ripples in the world around you.
The bottom line is that a slower pace and a heightened level of your conscious awareness – mental clarity – instantly elevates you in countless ways.
* Recognise the things that have been holding you back and eliminate the excess.
When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.
Very few people have focused their time and energy in a way that exclusively prioritizes truly important and meaningful objectives over everything else that pops up.
* Remember that some things are worth changing, however some of them are not.
Stepping back and allowing certain things to happen means these things will take care of themselves, and your needs will also be met. You will have less stress (and less to do), and more time and energy to work on the things that truly matter – the things you actually can control – like your attitude about everything.
Have goals, have dreams, aspire and take purposeful action, and build great relationships, but detach from what every aspect of your life must absolutely look like to be “good enough” for you.
* To get a century it is important that you take ones and twos. Our big goals are important but we spend our time and energy thinking about the desired end results of a big goal, instead of actually doing the little things that need to be done today.
If you don’t intentionally carve out time every day to make progress, you won’t? –? without question, your time will get lost in the vacuum of excessive overthinking and distraction.
If you’re not willing to make it a daily ritual – and actually work on it a little bit every day – you don’t really want to improve your life as much as you say you do.
Think about what you could do every day that would get you closer to your desired outcome, even if it were only the tiniest imaginable step forward.
* Every evening before you go to bed, write down three things that went well during the day and their causes. Simply provide a short, causal explanation for each good thing.
In a study of this gratitude exercise’s effectiveness by the famed psychologist Martin Seligman, participants were asked to follow those exact instructions for just one week.
After one week the participants were measurably 2 per cent happier than before, but in follow-up tests their happiness kept on increasing, from 5 per cent at one month, to 9 per cent at six months. Even more interestingly, the participants were only required to keep this gratitude journal for one week, but the majority of them continued journaling on their own because they enjoyed it.
