Posts Tagged ‘habit’

A Shove with Love - A Kickstart to Change.

Stepping into reality
Thought we might be a little less theoretical and philosophical, and a bit more practical today. Always nice to get out of our head and into reality. We all have behaviours and habits that we need to change and from time to time we all need a little encouragement and support, possibly a vigorous shove, to get under way. So I’m here today to give you a

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June 19 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: change, habit, personal growth, personal-development, self-improvement | 24 comments»

Fifty Habits of Highly Successful People

So I thought that I might write a quick review of every self-help book ever written all right here in this one little article. Simple enough. I love the easy jobs. Surely it couldn’t be that hard, could it? I figured that maybe I could take the important lessons from every self-help book I’ve read and every life experience I’ve endured, condense all that into fifty key points and… » Continue

May 12 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: habit, personal-development, self-help, self-improvement, success | 31 comments»

Fight Downhill Battles: Let Laziness and Inertia Make You More Productive

Did you know that you can cancel a magazine subscription at any time? Return unwanted Book-of-the-Month Club selections? Cancel unused credit cards? Put an end to unwanted junk mail?

You probably did know that, and yet you still receive magazines you don’t read anymore, have a stack of books or CDs from membership clubs that you’ve never even opened, pay yearly fees on credit cards you neither use nor want, and… » Continue

April 28 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: habit, inertia, laziness, Productivity | 8 comments»

Five Ways to Pick up the Exercise Habit Again

Even people who consistently stick to an effective health and fitness routine can sometimes fall out of the exercise habit from time to time. Getting back on track can be challenging unless ways are found to rebuild a strong desire to start exercising again.

Here are 5 ways to give yourself the mental kick in the pants that you need to stop procrastinating, get up off the couch, and get… » Continue

February 7 2008 | By Aaron | Tagged: exercise, fitness, habit, health | 37 comments»

10 Tips For A Good Night’s Sleep Without Pills

(photo from flickr)

A few months ago, I had a terrible time sleeping and getting up. After a party one night, I slept late and for the next 20 days, couldn’t get my sleeping pattern back on track. I fell asleep very late every night at around 3 AM and wasn’t able to get up till at least 11 AM each day. For someone like me who… » Continue

January 30 2008 | By Kavit | Tagged: alcohol, caffeine, exercise, habit, health, sleep, wellness | 38 comments»

14 Tips For Resolutions That Stick in the New Year

Statistics show that only about 15% of New Years Resolutions are kept. With an 85% failure rate, it’s no wonder that the amount of resolutions made is dropping. You wouldn’t buy a product that is defective 85% of the time, so why buy into the annual hype about resolutions? A strategy that fails over four fifths of the time is broken. The question… » Continue

December 27 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: change, commitment, diet, exercise, goal, habit, improvement, new years resolution, Productivity | 35 comments»

Bad Habits Aren’t All Bad

You drink to much coffee and you know it. You have to cut back but you have tried and it is just too hard. You succeed for a day or two, but something always happens and you are back to where you started. The problem may be that you are trying to give up all of your habit, not just the negative parts… » Continue

December 4 2007 | By Tom | Tagged: addiction, habit, self_improvement | 5 comments»

How to Quit a Bad Habit by Answering Four Power Questions

I bet there’s a habit you’d like to quit.

Maybe you have even tried, but things haven’t worked out as you hoped. Unfortunately, the very idea of “quitting” can make things difficult for you: let’s discover why.

The forbidden fruit is always very attractive. When you were a child, do you remember how everything became more attractive after it was forbidden? Well, there’s a part of

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November 20 2007 | By Marco | Tagged: change, goals, habit, health, quitting, selfdiscipline | 38 comments»

Don’t let your “hot buttons” spoil your chances

Everyone has “hot buttons.” They’re your tender spots, the places where you’re most sensitive, the points where you get irritated, or hurt, or angry, and have to respond. The trick to preventing them from messing up your day is awareness: The more aware you are of what rattles the bars of your cage, the more you’ll be able to catch yourself before you do any damage. If you… » Continue

November 19 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: behavior, habit, interaction, relationship | 4 comments»

How to take steady steps towards fulfilling your potential

Three steps cover most of what is needed to discover and then make full use of your potential:

Exploration of options, strengths, and weaknesses, in depth and without haste.
Patient removal of blockages.
Long-term, continuous development and learning.

The first step increases your self-awareness and gets beyond superficial judgments about strengths and weaknesses. You mustn’t simply jog along and let your automatic habits take the strain, or you’ll become narrow and parochial, priding… » Continue

November 5 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: habit, life, potential | 7 comments»

Things happen on the Net

I had just had an great idea for the post to end all posts at lifehack.org and all I needed was a one really good image to illustrate it. So I go over to my favorite cheap stock photography site - iStockPhoto - only to find the home page gone and this garish octopus ripping the head off some sort of cartoon figure with the message: “iStockPhoto… » Continue

October 23 2007 | By Bob | Tagged: habit, web | 8 comments»

Seven Things That Keep Us From Getting Home on Time

Time wasters are often things that we enjoy. They often are the seed of great frustration as well. The frustration manifests at the end of the day when we think, “What did I do today?” or “Why didn’t those things get done?” or “I guess I’ll be here until 8pm so that I’m not late with that project.”
Recognizing some of our time wasters as we get into them is… » Continue

October 18 2007 | By Susan | Tagged: frustration, habit, time, waster | 17 comments»

Starting Out When Building New Habits

When it comes to putting in place your new productivity system [GTD etc] or just implementing some new habits, it helps to know where to begin - because that is usually the most difficult stage.

OrganizeIT has a few pointers when starting out, mostly around the idea of keeping it simple. You can always build up from there.

Don’t micromanage
There seems to be a misconception that having lists and systems in… » Continue

September 10 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: gtd, habit | 3 comments»

7 Habits Of Ineffective People

Negative lists are great. It’s much easier to relate to things you shouldn’t be doing than things you think you are.

For instance, you could read 1989’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and try to relate each point to your life, or you could read this list of 7 habits of highly ineffective people and more quickly recognize your own faults.

Clinging to your own thoughts and being… » Continue

September 6 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: habit, Productivity | 4 comments»

You: The Science Experiment

I don’t expect you’ll be drinking mystery potions or hooking yourself up to a car battery anytime soon. But conducting personal experiments are probably the best way to find answers. By actually testing (instead of assuming) your habits, beliefs, methods and systems you can make real improvements.

Stop Theorizing, Look at Results

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in his book The Black Swan, recommends against using complex theories if they… » Continue

August 30 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: experiment, habit, science, test, theory | 5 comments»

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