Almost exactly 8 years ago today, I ran my first marathon and soon after I started Zen Habits. I’d changed a dozen or so habits, lost weight, was getting out of debt, quit smoking.
And almost 7 years ago, I quit my job.
That was a period of intense and profoundly scary life changes for me, but they were all of my choosing. I decided to make them happen, and I pushed until they did.
Today I’d like to share a few things that worked...
If you are not as productive as you'd like or tend to procrastinate, you can become motivated by changing your personal style. The trick lies in making the activities you put off more interesting, easier, and less unpleasant.
One way to make a job easier is to break it into smallerjobs. If your task is to file your income tax return, youmay view it as time consuming and tedious.
But if you break it into smaller categories such as gatherrecords, download...
You possess the greatest gift known to mankind: the power of choice.
Is there something in your life that could be better? You have everything you need, right now, to change it.
You can’t always control external people and events, but there’s a secret: Everything changes when you change yourself.
Smart people know that we achieve our best life when we take time to look honestly at who we are and where we are and then make a change.
In other words...
Everybody has goals. Maybe you want to run that half marathon coming up in six months, or you want to finish up your degree and go for a promotion. Whatever you are working towards it is important to continually take steps towards success and find ways to improve yourself along the way.
Unfortunately, that’s easier said than done. You might reach an unexpected roadblock, or a task you need to complete might be much more difficult than you expected...
Motivation is what makes the world go round. It’s the pushing force behind every action and is one of the most powerful forces in the universe. It’s highly important you learn to properly harness its energy, especially when you’re low on motivational juice.
Motivation is what makes the world go round. It’s the pushing force behind every action, to the point that almost every single thing in this earth is eventually the...
