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Thursday, 4 September 2014

Find Time For Your Dreams

Find the Time to Follow Your Dreams

aging time clock Almost everyone has dreams and aspirations in life that they would love to pursue and explore, if only they had the time. However, if you don’t make it a priority in your life to find that time, you might never have a chance to find out how successful your dreams and aspirations could become. Although it can be difficult for busy people to carve out even a little bit of time, if you make it a priority to spend just thirty minutes each day in pursuit of your dreams, it can make a big difference in your life.

Finding an extra thirty minutes in your day might be as easy as simply cutting out one television show. If you talk to truly successful people, they will often tell you that they don’t watch any television at all, because they feel it simply wastes time that could be spent on other pursuits. Although you might not want to give up television altogether, deleting thirty minutes of television watching per day could be all you need to realize your dreams.

Two Young Women in Front of the Computer Talking Another way of regaining thirty minutes is to stop using the snooze alarm on your alarm clock each morning. Getting up just thirty minutes earlier can be a great way of getting a jump on the day. Plus, if you get up before the rest of your family does, you will have some quiet time to yourself to spend on your personal pursuits.

Outsourcing some of your tasks by either hiring a housekeeper, assistant or getting your spouse or kids to help you with things is intelligent as well. You are just as important as everyone else and you need to learn to give yourself a break to pursue your interests. Never feel guilty about doing this, it is your right to have a life.

Finding ways to save time on household chores is also a good way of saving time. Try cooking in batches that you can use to create quick dinners in the evening during the week. When shopping, always use a list so that you can get what you need faster and more efficiently. Setting aside a designated time during the day for housework can also help, as opposed to doing tasks intermittently throughout the day. You might be amazed how much more efficient you can be and how much time you can save if you simply set aside only thirty minutes each day for chores, and leave it at that.

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Wednesday, 27 August 2014

Discipline Is The Key To Success

Discipline Yourself to Success

by: Iain Legg

When working toward goals or striving for success in any endeavor, self-discipline is one vital quality you need to have. Most of us cringe at the thought because it brings to mind instant visions of sacrifice, difficulty and strain.

However, discipline doesn’t have to be so hard. The problem occurs when you try to go from having no self-discipline to forcing yourself to undertake a heavy load of responsibility. Talk about pressure!

Below are three easy ways to become more disciplined with a minimum of discomfort:

1) First, change your attitude about discipline. One reason you may not be disciplined is because you think the activities or chores you need to do will be unpleasant in some way. The most common reaction to thoughts like that is to put the activities aside or avoid them until you feel ready to handle them.

Instead, pump yourself up and get motivated to get them done as soon as possible! Look forward to the challenge and keep affirming how great you’ll feel when you’re finished. Focus on the sense of personal accomplishment you’ll gain with every task and you’ll be much more likely to stick to your plans.

2) Make self-discipline a gradual process. Rather than trying to force yourself into submission with a big list of tasks or activities, go a little easier on yourself to start.

Identify one small task or activity that you can use for practice. Make it something fairly easy to accomplish each day, and then make sure you do it. If you have to, post notes of encouragement everywhere or wear an elastic band around your wrist as a reminder. If possible, get this one task out of the way first thing in the morning before you do anything else. Make it your highest priority and it will soon become a solid habit.

Then, begin adding more tasks or activities – or increase the size or frequency of the original task so you’re doing more each day. Little by little, keep increasing it like that and eventually you’ll find that you’re doing the things you set out to do without excuses or procrastination.

3) Commitment. If you’re not fully committed to achieving your goals, you’ll probably have a harder time pushing yourself to work on them. Make a solemn vow to yourself that you will do what it takes to work on your goals every single day. Write a list of important action steps and make it your mission to do one or more of them each day. Re-commit yourself as often as necessary to make sure you stick to your plans.

More than anything else, self-discipline is a favorable result of a series of wise decisions that you make each day. Choose to be disciplined, choose to be successful – and you will be!

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