Develop habits instead of making goals. Because success comes with consistent efforts to practice habits and let’s call them rituals.
Whether you are an entrepreneur or a corporate person or a homemaker, it’s very important to take care of ourselves and love ourselves. Self-care doesn’t need to be an earthquake in our life, its breeze which can change our life.
Let’s try doing marginal adjustments in our lifestyle and follow these 12 habits, one for each month.
- Practice affirmation- Just one minute a day, write a liner or so that makes you feel good, makes you feel accomplished, and read it, feel it happening and visualize it. It’s easy and simple, but be consistent, and then eventually it becomes the truth of your life. The law of attraction starts working for you and your subconscious mind starts working in that direction thus leads to actual accomplishment.
- Smell the roses- It does not mean that you have to buy roses and smell them, it means spend few minutes amongst nature, listen to the chirping of birds, watch the sky, I love counting the airplanes going by, look at the shapes of leaves, look at nature and feel blessed. It calms our mind, heart, and soul then refreshing us to bang on the day.
- S-T-R-E-T-C-H- It’s ok if your schedule does not allow you to dedicate specific time for exercise and fitness. While sitting on the office chair, stretch a little, while cooking try some exercises, do 5 sets of 10- second holds where you sit up tall, place your hands behind your head, lift your chest and treat yourself to a muscle relaxing self-massage.
- Float- Have you tried this ever, the simple act of floating in water relieves pain and stress. It’s not necessary to go to the beach or a swimming pool to do this, even at your home in a bathtub try doing this and you will see the difference.
- Don’t run after perfection rather go for completion- Be who you are, accept yourself, there is always a scope of improvement but stop making it perfect, because by the time you will feel that it’s perfect, it will be too late. So keep completing the tasks and move on. Don’t overstress yourselves in trying to do what is not meant to be.
- Keep the child in you alive- Recall when you were a child, there was no ego, no hatred, no jealousy, no competition. Let that child in you be alive always and let go of these things, do what you love to do, stop thinking what the world will think of you. Enjoy your present and stop regretting the past or overthinking about the future.
- Be a learner- Even if you have completed your education you still have a lot more to be explored. Try to dive into something new which you know nothing about, generate that curiosity, and see eventually you will grow.
- Solo travel- Have you tried this ever? Just a solo drive in beautiful weather away from gadgets and looking at the scenic view gives a halt in the marathon of life that we are running into.
- Declutter- By this I mean any declutter, it could your drawer, your fridge, your closet, your garage or even getting away from negative people who are there in your life but just to criticize you or laugh at you.
- Friendship Goals- We all have our childhood buddies and it feels young at heart when we connect with them, gossip or chit chat about others, refresh those funny and silly moments of our childhood. Relive those moments and feel the difference.
- Upgrade your closet- Sometimes it gives a lot of satisfaction, get rid of ugly hangers or clothes that you haven’t worn for the last 6 months. This practical investment will make you happier when you open your closet even if you don’t do any additional organizing.
- Self-Reflection- Take one day of the week to reflect on your week, what went well, what went wrong, what could have been better, and try to experiment with new habits and practices to give meaning to your life.
Giving meaning to life, finding a purpose just by developing simple habits leads to what we call SUCCESS.