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As we get to the end of another year we begin to start taking stock. What went well in 2015? What didn't go so well? Even if you had the best year of your life, we ultimately always want to get better. Humans are wired for growth and we have an insatiable need to believe that we are improving our lives with each turning of the calendar.
Regardless of how great the past year has been, here are 6 ways that you can be better in 2016:
1. Rid yourself of one bad habit at a time.
Make a serious commitment to change one bad habit. Re-wiring habits requires discipline, planning and commitment, so give yourself at least three dedicated months to do it. Focus on one bad habit at a time for success, and get a plan in action. There are plenty of apps that can help you stay on track, and you can enlist accountability and support from your friends or family. Once you have made it past three months, that new habit should be solid, and you can go into maintenance mode.
2. Get control of your negative mental chatter. Follow these steps.
First, notice the negative message that seems the loudest. Pause and listen to your mind and what it is saying to you; identifying the loudest negative message will happen over time, as you listen more and more closely.
Next, track how often you are telling this to yourself. Is it happening every day? Every week? What are you doing that triggers these negative messages?
Then, reverse that message. Write down a new message to tell yourself that is a more positive version of the negative message. This new positive message should be realistic--you can believe it just as much as the negative one. Repeat the positive message whenever doubts come up.
3. Focus on loving yourself more every day.
There are two great methods for developing more self-love. First, tell yourself out loud that you love yourself. Just as powerful as hearing these words from someone else, saying it yourself can make you feel the same way. And you can do it as often as you like.
Second, commit to a new activity that is something that you absolutely love and feel wonderful doing. Do it alone, and think of it as a gift to yourself for being you.
4. Expand your intelligence. Pick one of these three mind expanding exercises.
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#1: Listen to Baroque and Classical music--especially Mozart. This type of music typically has a tempo of 60 beats a minute. When someone hears one beat per second, their heart rate and pulse relax to the beat, blood pressure decreases and the entire body unwinds. In this relaxed state, the brain is able to concentrate more easily.
#2: Drink more water, especially non-fluoride water. Magnetic water helps your body more easily take in vitamins and other nutrients.
#3: Use your peripheral vision: When you are looking at the world with peripheral vision, you immediately access alpha brainwaves and the right hemisphere of the brain. This is much more relaxing and allows the subconscious to come into the equation for super learning.
5. Get moving
Commit yourself to being more active. Find something that is fun and a great workout, like dance, yoga, DVD videos you can do at home, walking, running, or skiing. There are so many options and opportunities to get out and move your body.
6. Meditate
More and more research is pointing to the benefits of meditation. In the future, meditation will be so prevalent and accepted, it will be as natural as showering or brushing our teeth. If you don't meditate, start now. It will change your life and your health.
Pick one or do them all. With these strategies in place, there is no way you can't make 2016 the best year yet!
Pick one or do them all. With these strategies in place, there is no way you can't make 2016 the best year yet!
Want to change your world and your environment completely? If you do this for 30 days, your entire world WILL indeed change.
I constantly see friends of mine doing these 30-day challenges (perhaps you've seen them or even done one yourself).
They will post about it on Facebook or tell me how great they feel because they are doing something like this for 30 days:
- Writing a gratitude list each day
- Only eating Paleo
- Doing planks every day
- Writing in a journal every morning
- Learning a new word from a different language
- Drinking eight glasses of water each day.
I see them months later, and the conversation typically goes like this:
Me: Are you still writing a gratitude list every day? How's that going?
Friend: Huh?
Me: The gratitude list challenge that you were doing, the one you were posting about on Facebook each day.
Friend: Oh.... Yeah. That was awesome but I stopped after 30 days when it was over.
And that's what seems to be the big issue with many of these 30-day challenges. Something doesn't click. Or rather, it doesn't stick. They aren't helping us to change for the long run. They are a short-term fix.
Today, I wanted to share with you a 30-day challenge that actually DID change me--so much so that it's become a part of my everyday life.
Disclaimer: Yes, this is a 30-day challenge but it should be repeated every 30 days
If you incorporate this into your life and faithfully practice it (you won't be perfect at it, and that's completely fine), here's what you can expect:
- Wonderful new opportunities (more opportunity typically leads to more money)
- More connections, conversations, and friends
- Peace of mind
- You'll start to see the world in a much different, better way.
The Most Important Person Challenge
Last year, I came across this challenge in a book by the late personal development pioneer and radio legend Earl Nightingale. As soon as I read it and tried it out, I knew my life would never be the same.
Want to change your world and your environment completely?
Here's a simple (but difficult) challenge.... If you do this for 30 days, your entire world WILL indeed change.
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For 30 days, treat every person you meet, without a single exception, as the most important person on earth.
You will find that they will begin treating you the same way. You see, every person, as far as they are concerned, is the most important on earth. How does the world look at you? Exactly as you look at the world.
Yes, the premise of this challenge is VERY simple, but sometimes the simplest things can be the hardest because they go against how we typically live our life (I know that was the case for me). So here are some ways that I've been able to get better at this challenge:
- Give Thanks and Get Out of Self in the Morning
I get on my knees, say thanks, and ask for help and guidance. I say three simple sentences, 'Love, serve, and remember. Remember what? Remember to love and serve.' - Keep the Golden Rule in Mind
'I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others 25 percent better than you expect them to do unto you.'.... The 25 percent is for error.'--Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize winner - Keep the Benefits in Mind
Whenever you're focusing on making new changes in your life, it's very important to keep the benefits in mind and focus on the good that is also going to come to you. This will especially help you when you aren't in a great mood and really don't feel like being all that nice. - Remember That You Are Human
I have yet to do this perfectly, but I keep trying, and simply by trying to do it each day, my life improves.
Published on: Mar 19, 2015