You have probably heard or read on numerous occasions that setting a routine is the best means of accomplishing your goals. That has some truth to it. It’s like creating habits where repetition is the way to develop them. Sometimes, however, this can cause you to get into a rut or a funk. You stillContinue reading “Do Something Different Once Per Week”
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7 Apps for Breaking and Building Habits
Does anybody have any feedback or updates – I wrote this a while ago… There’s an app for that. It’s become a running joke; there’s an app for everything. Is there an app for habits? No. there are a lot of apps for habits. HabitBull is a free flexible reminder program that lets you developContinue reading “7 Apps for Breaking and Building Habits”
7 Steps to Your Personal Plan for Flipping the Switch
Flipping your switch can seem like a massive undertaking. One that there are a million separate ways to achieve if all the articles on the internet have anything to say about it. However, flipping your switch is a personal undertaking, one that may have similar milestones for everyone, but really can and should be curtailedContinue reading “7 Steps to Your Personal Plan for Flipping the Switch”
7 Significant Benefits to Trying New Things
When you make it a goal to try something new, you may not realize why you’re setting out to do something new in the first place. There is a slew of benefits that come along from incorporating “new” into your life; here are seven of them: How will you learn new things if you neverContinue reading “7 Significant Benefits to Trying New Things”
Logically, we know we can’t predict the future.
I found this one at Daily Motivation. Logically, we know we can’t predict the future. Yet that doesn’t stop us from jumping to conclusions and creating scenarios in our minds that aren’t likely to come true. It’s almost as if constant reassurance about how things will pan out is a drug we rely on toContinue reading “Logically, we know we can’t predict the future.”
Why Goals Fail
Now that you know why you need goals, setting the right ones and meeting them can be somewhat of a problem. More often than not we fail to meet some of the goals we set for ourselves. There are several major reasons for this. If the goal is important enough for you, make it aContinue reading “Why Goals Fail”
Goals
Here I am in Oman and it is the start of Ramadan. This is an opportunity to set some new goals and achieve them! One of my current habits is to wander across to my favourite Bar/Restaurant and have a few beers, and sometimes order Prawn Noodles, which is one of the chef’s best dishes.Continue reading “Goals”
End of the year
I know I’ve been away for a while. I had quite a health scare when I was on holiday in Turkey in August. It turns out my heart was damaged when I had Covid in 2021 when I was living in Azerbaijan. Fortunately, the hospital saved my life when they discovered my body had builtContinue reading “End of the year”
Micro-Habits You Can Start Today for a Happier Life
Ask anyone what they desire in life, and more often than not, the answer comes back as some variation of “be happier.” The pursuit of happiness has been around since time began, the topic being a discussion point since the days of Plato and Socrates. Is happiness truly so hard to find? Thankfully happiness isContinue reading “Micro-Habits You Can Start Today for a Happier Life”
The 3 Fundamentals of Self-Kindness
In talking about the importance of kindness, it’s easy to forget that you have to start with being kind to yourself. How does it feel to hear that? Maybe it makes you uncomfortable. After all, you were probably brought up to think of others first, to be unselfish, to put your own needs behind otherContinue reading “The 3 Fundamentals of Self-Kindness”
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