50 Positive Habits: Transform you Life - Michael Chapman (2016)
Lifestyle Habits
In this group we want to help people consider and understand why values matter so much. Many people don’t put much stock in having good lifestyle habits, but as this section will show it can be an invaluable trait to consider.
Having a strong range of habits in day to day life will ensure you can get the kind of help that you need in terms of making sure your lifestyle can keep improving. I found that each of these habits helped me become more productive and positive at home and in the office, ensuring my day-to-day would continually improve.
What’s Your Values?
Why Will This Help Me Become More Positive?
Another set of common issues is not knowing what we stand for. Having values helps us to define where we want to be and, crucially, if our mindset allows it.
Applying The Action For Increased Positivity
The best thing that I ever done was look to change my mindset. Make sure that your core decisions and values reflect the roles you want to achieve in life.
How Often Should I Practice?
It’s a hard one - it takes many hours of inspection of who you are. Look at what makes up your core ideals, though, and see how your world reflects that.
Life Without This Change
Without having or knowing your main values most people will just go from day to day, never really progressing to who they want to be. They may progress, but never to where they intended.
Life With This Change
If you start to make decisions based on if it fits our values, you’ll become stronger mentally and more committed to achieving your goals and dreams.
What’s Your Passions?
Why Will This Help Me Become More Positive?
I found that by finally defining what my true passions in life were, I could be far more comfortable with who I was. My path, my aims and desires became clearer.
Applying The Action For Increased Positivity
To apply this action, I simply looked at what gave my stomach a jolt when I thought of it. This feeling drives me to find out more about myself.
How Often Should I Practice?
Every minute of every day - your passions should never be forgotten. Every morning, just take half an hour to think about how today will help you move towards finally achieving that passion.
Life Without This Change
You’ll just go from day to day, week to week, year to year. You’ll never improve or define yourself and you’ll likely always go down a negative way of thinking.
Life With This Change
By using this though you become far more likely to achieve success, as you know exactly what your aims and goals are both today and in the future.
Creating a Vision
Why Will This Help Me Become More Positive?
The most powerful people have a dream, a vision. Make sure that you have a vision for where you wish to be - even the example of another person who’s successful.
Applying The Action For Increased Positivity
Going through with this is very important, as it ensures you’ll see continued and repeated success. Applying that action means simply spending the morning arranging what your dreams are in life.
How Often Should I Practice?
Every day if you can! Few things in life are as powerful as knowing what the dream and aim of your existence is. That half an hour can focus you for the week ahead.
Life Without This Change
Taking the time to understand what your passions and energies are going to be driven by is utterly vital - without it, we just go along from day to day.
Life With This Change
When you make this change, however, you will see consistent response and progress as you’ll be more driven, with an active desire to reach your goals.
Inspiring Yourself
Why Will This Help Me Become More Positive?
The easiest way to inspire yourself, I found, was to look at all the success you have had so far. How can you get back to that level of success?
Applying The Action For Increased Positivity
To do this, simply look at where you have been in your life. How did you get there? How did you feel? What’s stopping you from repeating that success today?
How Often Should I Practice?
All the time - never stop planning, preparing or hoping to find the solution that is going to infuse your future. Simply by knowing what inspired you previously, you can go again.
Life Without This Change
My life prior to ever really trying to inspire myself with previous success was very difficult. My self-esteem was ruined and I continually believed all success was just luck.
Life With This Change
Since the chance, though, I now repeat my old successes fairly regularly. I tend to find that my old success was driven by desire which is now missing when tried today.
Challenging Beliefs
Why Will This Help Me Become More Positive?
How often do you take a belief that you hold and go against it? I started to recently debate with myself and counter my own points, and it’s been massive.
Applying The Action For Increased Positivity
Simply go through an argument yo would expect to have. What’s the point you hold? What’s the main counterpoint? Using this helps you see if you’ve really thought things through.
How Often Should I Practice?
All the time! Simply learning how to practice those beliefs is going to be very important. By knowing how others may react, you also fill in the blanks in your logic.
Life Without This Change
You’ll just always hold the same opinions until challenged and humiliated. The path towards education and success means being prepared to struggle to get there, are you ready?
Life With This Change
When you allow this change to happen, though, the glass ceiling is shattered. You’ll find it easier to locate factual and honest responses to the problems and opinions you have.
Letting Go
Why Will This Help Me Become More Positive?
Many of us, myself included, are wrapped in our worldly possessions. From our cars to our TVs, fear of loss makes us vicious. Losing that is the first step towards normality.
Applying The Action For Increased Positivity
I simply had to start giving away things at first - it was hard, but it got me to appreciate that life went on once that product left the house.
How Often Should I Practice?
I’ve so far given away something of value to me every week to a friend, family member or charity. It’s helping me appreciate that there’s more to life than sofas!
Life Without This Change
I found that without making this change I just continued to be paranoid and negative. The fear of losing my beloved possessions drove me to conservatism rather than fueling ambition.
Life With This Change
When I decided to give things away I felt emotionally liberated. If you try it yourself then you will see just how easy it is to be ambitious in other ways.
Selfish or Selfless?
Why Will This Help Me Become More Positive?
Following on from the above, a popular choice for helping to make sure that you make smart decisions in the near future is whether you should be selfless or selfish.
Applying The Action For Increased Positivity
Simply try and see how you feel when you make a decision for purely yourself, then a decision that hampers you but helps others. What made you feel better? This is the kind of person that you wish to be.
How Often Should I Practice?
Keep trying until you feel satisfied. From buying something you don’t need to giving away a week’s wages, there’s plenty of ways to practice what kind of mental plan suits you best.
Life Without This Change
Taking the time to do this is going to likely make you feel far more comfortable with who you are. It’ll also likely make sure that you know what kind of ambitions you should have. You cannot achieve a selfish ambition by being selfless along the way!
Life With This Change
On the flipside, you cannot do too much to help yourself if you want to be selfless and always act selfish. Finding the way that you feel suits you best is hard work but is going to leave you feeling more secure with who you are, making you feel more positive.
Stopping Yourself Short
Why Will This Help Me Become More Positive?
How often do you find that you sell yourself short? I used to always find that I limited my talents due to a negative outlook on the world in general.
Applying The Action For Increased Positivity
To change that, I simply had to look at when I was making choices. I soon noticed how often I made these choices to fit the whims of others alone.
How Often Should I Practice?
To practice, I started making decisions in the opposite manner. In the past when I would think of others, I would put myself first - and vice versa.
Life Without This Change
I found that my life before this was usually one that involved being unhappy at the expense of trying to make other people happy.
Life With This Change
However, I find that now I’m much more comfortable making choices that revolve around what I want to do instead of always trying to pander to other people.
Defeating Excuses
Why Will This Help Me Become More Positive?
A major problem I had in my mindset was always looking to use excuses as a way to avoid knowing I failed. To change this, I concentrated on my failures.
Applying The Action For Increased Positivity
I started to looked at why things went wrong, and what my own specific role was. It was the most positive action I could have taken as now I see where I went wrong and no longer blame other people.
How Often Should I Practice?
This has really helped me come to terms with who I am and the extra practice has ensured I continue to progress. I would recommend practicing this whenever you find yourself excusing a poor performance or stupid mistake on your part.
Life Without This Change
Before I started to really look at my own actions before anyone else, I led a very insecure life. I would feel threatened by everyone and secure with nobody.
Life With This Change
Now, I’m far more comfortable and have found I’m more positive than I have been, as I can see my faults.
Creating, not Reacting
Why Will This Help Me Become More Positive?
The most powerful way I have found to handle negativity is to create. I now use that energy for good.
Applying The Action For Increased Positivity
It’s easy to apply - simply get into a hobby. When things go wrong turn to the hobby instead of reacting.
How Often Should I Practice?
This makes it very easy to give yourself time to consider a response, using creativity to drive your emotions.
Life Without This Change
I used to react wrongly to lots of situations and I would create tension between myself and other people in life.
Life With This Change
Now I take the time to immerse myself in the idea of what has gone wrong, creating more harmony.