I find that the whole house is buzzing with noise. Bells are ringing and souls are buzzing and people are coming and going. So this is a time I go to the gym. John Cleary calls this habit of stacking. He says that stacking is one habit on top of another which helps you to do multiple things during your most productive hour. Before you know it is bingo you've accomplished a lot in a short period of time. Habit number two is time management. Find yourself a timetable.
Customize and stick it on your wall. Use a calendar app. Set out intentions for things that you want to implement. Make time for distraction. The trouble with distraction is that while you're binging on Netflix the mind doesn't even know what it's supposed to be doing instead and the mind is very clever it'll convince you that whatever it is it can be done tomorrow. So plan your time. Don't just write a to-do list. A to-do list has this funny way of remaining exactly the same day after they, even though you seem to be slogging it out and while making that timetable. Make sure you include distributed practice which means practicing something more frequently every day rather than cramming on the last day before the exams. Now we have some fantastic timetables that I can share with you. Don't forget to include time to file your papers. Organize your nodes and pack for the next day on the night. Before organizing yourself is a great way to reduce your stress. Number three is health, fitness and nutrition. Let's start with the exercise of Charles Duhigg. He calls, exercise a keystone habit which means this one single habit can impact almost everything else in your life. But the reality is that we procrastinate the most when it comes to exercise. So let me give you some simple things that you can do to hack yourself into the habit of exercising. For example, you want to get up in the morning and you go for a run. How about you set up cues in the night before going to bed. Place your running shoes and you're running outfit right next to your bed so when you get up in the morning you see the cue to go running. The second tip is to join a fitness group. Habits are much easier to form when they are done in groups. Another thing when it comes to exercising is to make it easy. Don't train like an expert where you're lifting heavy weights the whole day. Your body is hurting and you're feeling sorry for yourself. Make an exercise as fun things that you enjoy. It could be badminton swimming or walking with a friend. When habits are enjoyable, you tend to continue doing it else you drop out, and don't worry about progress. It's usually two steps forward and one step backward but it's still progress. Now let's talk about healthy eating. First of all crowd out your refrigerator of all the unhealthy food stacks it out with healthy food. Now unhealthy eating tends to happen when there's nothing to eat at home and fast food is really convenient. The second tip is food journaling. Just writing down what you eat every single day is known to create the habit of healthy eating because otherwise will power is a muscle and it tires itself out. The third and very important thing for you to do is to set up rewards and genuine rewards if you have three good days. Give yourself that little chocolate and soon it's going to become a habit and the fourth little simple thing to do is to hack your nutrition and is to create an identity pact. Now have you ever noticed when people are vegetarian, they announced to everyone that they are vegetarian and when they look at the food they never go through this dilemma or should I eat the meat or should I not eat the meat. They never eat meat. How about you create this identity pact for yourself. Let's say you want to do intermittent fasting and you announce to the world that you're a person that does intermittent fasting. Now post 7:00 p.m. Or 6:30 p.m. Whatever is the time you set for yourself, no one is gonna force you to eat and you're never gonna be in a dilemma because that's who you are and have its number. One of the highly successful students is to go outside of your comfort zone.
Now take a piece of paper and draw a big circle on it and inside the circle write down everything that you already have. It could be a car, it could be a beautiful pet dog, a college degree, or loving parents. Now outside the circle write everything that you aspire to have. It could be a bigger house, it could be a fat paycheck, it could be a vacation or just another pet. Now, what is this circle that we've drawn? This is your comfort zone or your income zone and habit number one is to expand your comfort zone. Do one thing daily that makes you uncomfortable that gets you scared that makes you sick in the stomach. It could be volunteering to stand up in front of a group of people and making a speech. It could be making a presentation in class, singing in front of your friends. I don't know it could be learning to play the guitar but as long as something makes you afraid and uncomfortable stretch yourself to do it and if you're not doing one thing daily, weekly or monthly that makes you uncomfortable and stretches your comfort zone. Guess what, you're not growing and finally believe in your superpower. Believe in your ability to hack yourself into this person that you want to be one small step every day.
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