One of the success habits I’m working on this year is to get up when the alarm clock goes off instead of snoozing it several times. Even though I work from home and can work whatever hours I choose, my most productive time of day is early in the morning. When I get up at 4 or 5am I get an amazing amount of solid, productive work done just in the first few hours, and I usually have outstanding overall days too.
At the moment I’m not trying to get back into that early rising program. Instead I’m simply trying to take small steps to correct some bad habits I’ve picked up in the last year. One of those is sleeping until noon. For the …
Wealth & Money, habits, self improvement
“Getting Things Done” is a book that teaches you how to do just that: get things done. If you’re like most people today, you’re busy trying to juggle business, family and personal items all at once, and sometimes a ball (or two) gets dropped.
In this book, David Allen provides a complete system to help. The process itself, affectionately referred to as “GTD” by loyal followers, is one of the most useful I’ve personally found.
The problem is almost universal: Knowing what you want or have to do in life is one thing, but actually moving forward with it can be a huge challenge. This is especially true for all of us that have never-ending task lists and/or large, long-term projects on our plate. Looking at the …
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The first chapter of “The Power of Focus”–Your Habits Will Determine Your Future–is important enough to spend a lot of time and attention on. It’s so powerful in fact, that I could study it weekly for an entire year and still have progress left to make.
This chapter is all about habits, and how everything we do throughout each day is a combination of small habits that make up our daily routines.
“Your everyday normal behavior has a lot to do with the results in your life. If you’re not happy with these results, something has to change.”
Changing habits takes time and concentrated effort. And as the book rightly points out: Some habits are more deeply ingrained than others, so they may take more time and …
The Power of Focus, Wealth Wisdom, habits, success, The Power of Focus
Years ago I wrote an article about how important it is to re-read certain books on a regular basis. I’ve lost track of that article, but the essential message was this: Things change as time goes on. You change. And what you get from a fantastic book this year may be different than what you get from it two years from now. As you grow and become more successful, each aspect of a given teaching is seen in different and new lights.
Back in 1996 or 1997 I bought and tried to read “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill because it was highly recommended by many experts. Unfortunately I was brand new to the business world and most of what was in that book …
Wealth & Money, Wealth Wisdom, books, habits, success
I started seriously looking at my bad financial habits in December 2009. My first step was to start studying wealth books: Personal finance books, books about how other people became wealthy, business growth books and self improvement books too.
One of the first books I picked up was Dave Ramsey’s “Total Money Makeover.” Now I’ve personally never had problems with credit cards because I haven’t used them over the years, and browsing other reviews, blogs and websites online I quickly discovered that not everyone agreed with Dave Ramsey’s wealth plan but that didn’t matter to me. Many things in that book struck home and I’ll reveal those in a later review, but one of the first things I realized was I needed to get a …
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