habits
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Take Advantage Of The Time Change To Start Working Out Early
I’m a reluctant morning exerciser. I hate waking up at 6, but my day goes better when I get my workout in early. This week is a special week, then, for folks like me (and commenter Sailor Jupiter, who thinks like I do). The time change has gifted us with an extra morning hour. Waking…
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The Shared Habits Of Self-Made Millionaires
All self-made millionaires had to start somewhere. Much of their transformation from ordinary to seven-figure status can attributed to “rich habits,” a term coined by Thomas C. Corley, who spent five years researching the daily habits of 177 self-made millionaires.
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Give Yourself A Crappy Reward
Rewarding yourself can backfire. If you tell yourself “I’ll only listen to my favourite podcast while I’m at the gym,” it takes just one moment of weakness to realise you can cheat and listen to it any time you want. Instead, try this: Reward yourself with something that has no enjoyment value whatsoever. Like a…
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How To Identify The Blind Spots In Your Thinking
All of us carry around a number of default assumptions about the world — as well as a number of hopes and beliefs through which we filter our current experiences. Regularly asking ourselves a simple question can help us identify where we might be preventing ourselves from fully understanding what is in front of us.…