MY TODAY'S TOP TEN SECRETS
SUCCESSFUL
#LIFE
Sleep less. This is one of the best
investments you can make to make
your life more productive and
rewarding. Most people do not need
more than 6 hours to maintain an
excellent state of health. Try getting
up one hour earlier for 21 days and it
will develop into a powerful habit.
Remember, it is the quality not the
quantity of sleep that is important.
And just imagine having an extra 30
hours a month to spend on the things
that are important to you.
2. Set aside one hour every morning
for personal development matters.
Meditate, visualize your day, read
inspirational texts to set the tone of
your day, listen to motivational tapes
or read great literature. Take this quiet
period to vitalize and energize your
spirit for the productive day ahead.
Watch the sun rise once a week or be
with nature. Starting the day off well
is a powerful strategy for self-renewal
and personal effectiveness.
3. Do not allow those things that
matter the most in your life be at the
mercy of activities that matter the
least. Every day, take the time to ask
yourself the question "is this the best
use of my time and energy?" Time
management is life management so
guard your time with great care.
4. Use the rubber band method to
condition your mind to focus solely on
the most positive elements in your
life. Place a rubber band around your
wrist. Each time a negative, energy
sapping thought enters your mind,
snap the rubber band. Through the
power of conditioning, your mind will
associate pain with negative thinking
and you will soon possess a strongly
positive mindset.
5. Always answer the phone with
enthusiasm in your voice and show
your appreciation for the caller. Good
phone manners are essential. To
convey authority on the line, stand up.
This will instill further confidence in
your voice.
6. Throughout the day we all get
inspiration and excellent ideas. Keep
a set of cards (the size of business
cards; available at most stationary
stores) in your wallet along with a
pencil to jot down these insights.
When you get home, put the ideas in a
central place such as a coil notepad
and review them from time to time.
As noted by Oliver Wendell Holmes:
"Man's mind, once stretched by a new
idea, never regains its original
dimensions."
7. Set aside every Sunday evening for
yourself and be strongly disciplined
with this habit. Use this period to plan
your week, visualize your encounters
and what you want to achieve, to read
new materials and inspirational
books, to listen to soft soothing music
and to simply relax. This habit will
serve as your anchor to keep you
focused, motivated and effective
throughout the coming week.
8. Always remember the key principle
that the quality of your life is the
quality of your communication. This
means the way you communicate
with others and, more importantly, the
way you communicate with yourself.
What you focus on is what you get. If
you look for the positive this is what
you get. This is a fundamental law of
Nature.
9. Stay on purpose, not on outcome.
In other words, do the task because it
is what you love to do or because it
will help someone or is a valuable
exercise. Don't do it for the money or
the recognition. Those will come
naturally. This is the way of the world.
10. Laugh for five minutes in the
mirror each morning. Steve Martin
does. Laughter activates many
beneficial chemicals within the body
that place us into a very joyous state.
Laughter also returns the body to a
state of balance. Laughter therapy has
been regularly used to heal persons
with varied ailments and is a
wonderful tonic for life's ills. While the
average 4 year old laughs 500 times a
day, the average adult is lucky to
laugh 15 times a day. Revitalize the
habit of laughter, it will put far more
living into your life.
