5 Challenges that Prevent Exercise (and How to Overcome Them)

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5 Challenges that Prevent Exercise

The following is a sample from my book Level Up Your Day: How to Maximize the 6 Essential Areas of Your Daily Routine. Exercising isn’t exactly everyone’s favorite activity. Read on to learn what challenged some people face that prevent them from exercising and how to overcome them. Steve recently polled his email list about their … Read more

How to Use Technology for Sticking to Your Habits

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Use Tech to Keep Yourself Motivated

It takes weeks for a new activity to become an ingrained habit. However, when trying to adopt something that’s particularly challenging, you may find it tough to continue it for a few consecutive days, let alone weeks. Luckily, there are technological interventions that can keep you on track and make motivation much easier to maintain. … Read more

The Simple Habit of Scheduling Email Processing Times

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Schedule Email Processing Times

The following is a sample from my book Daily Inbox Zero: 9 Proven Steps to Eliminate Email Overload. Checking your email can be a productivity trap. If you want to figure out an effective email checking time for yourself, read on and learn how. Be sure to check the book for more email tips.

Habits require specificity.

You can't say, “I will check my email in the morning” and expect to follow through every single day.

Habits are built by consistently doing the same thing at the same time. The best way to empty an inbox every day is to schedule time dedicated to this task.

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Sleep Habits of the Rich and Famous (Infographic)

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Many articles and research emphasize the importance of getting enough sleep for creativity and productivity. The classic “8 hours of sleep” rule get thrown around often. But a lot famous and successful personalities throughout history favored sleeping habits we’d consider strange in today’s standards. From regular naps throughout the day to two-hours of sleep at night, … Read more

The One Hour Weekly Habit to Prioritize, Reduce Your Stress & Determine Your Direction

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Weekly Meeting

If you’re here you know or want to learn the power of setting good habits. Habits can make or break us in life, whether that be in how we run our work days, when (and if we exercise), and even our responses to people. But with all the priorities you have in life, including even … Read more

Confident You: An Introvert’s Guide to Success in Life and Business

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Introvert ebook- confident you

Are you an introvert? Many introverts struggle with the challenges of living in a world that rewards the outgoing extrovert. Extroverts are often seen as the “good outgoing leaders” and the “go to” people while many introverts could do even better work, but are left out in the cold. Success in life often come down … Read more

How to Build the Confidence Habit (HINT: It’s Binary)

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Habits are why confident people are most comfortable being confident and unconfident people are most comfortable being unconfident. Unconfident people are unconfident because they continually and habitually practice living that way.

Today we have a guest post from Stephen Guise talking about building the confidence habit. Stephen is the international bestselling author of “Mini Habits” and “How to Be an Imperfectionist.” In today’s article, he talks about how you build more confidence through the power of daily habits.   It’s confusing. Habits and confidence both impact … Read more

The ONE Question, Email Habits, and Boosting Your Productivity for Good

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Email Habits, and Boosting Your Productivity for Good

I recently read a book called The ONE Thing by Gary Keller. The basic idea behind the book is to simplify your life and focus all your effort towards goals that make other things unnecessary or easier. In my opinion, the most important lesson of the book is something that the author introduces as a … Read more

6 Habits Entrepreneurs Should Steal From Olympic Athletes

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When you look at the super successful entrepreneurs they all have stories that show much more than what meets the eye. The world of sports is the same as these, as there is a reason that some reach high levels and others don’t. Athletic gifts do play a role in this success but habits play an even bigger role.

Athletes spend years of their lives since childhood build successful habits and it almost goes completely ignored. The problem with most fans of sport is that the behind the scenes story is not paid attention to nearly enough. When you look at the super successful entrepreneurs they all have stories that show much more than … Read more