MY TOP TIPS THIS MONTH

Read books regularly. Write articles or posts.

Your brain needs new information daily to keep developing, and reading new books is one of the best ways to do just that. Find a few minutes a day to read books on personal development, and it will help you grow even if you don’t find any terribly useful ideas in any book.
A hint for personal development readers: stop searching for that revolutionary book that will solve all your problems! There is none. You should be happy if you get an idea or two of each book, and even them will probably be only fine-tuning your existing experience and not introducing something entirely new.

Wake up earlier

The earlier you wake up, the less distraction you’re going to have. Most people are asleep, and you can enjoy some quiet time doing anything you like: blogging, exercising, reading a book.
The best hours of your sleep are between 10pm and midnight. You will need less time for your sleep if you catch these two magical hours. Go to bed later, and you will need longer sleep to fully rest and up your energy levels.

Ask positive questions

By simply changing the way you ask questions, you can transform your whole life: get into a good mood more often, solve complex problems and find unique solutions in even the worst situations.

Learn to fail. It’s part of your success

I’ve accepted failures as a very natural part of my life long time ago. The only person who doesn’t fail is the one who doesn’t do anything. If you can say you’ve failed in something, this usually means you’ve actually tried some things out and worked rather hard to do your best. And so, your efforts were not futile, albeit not enough to make you absolutely successful this time. It doesn’t mean you didn’t make any progress though!

Do Your Goal Setting

It is absolutely vital to set your goals, otherwise how would you know whether you’re achieving them or not?

Realize that achieving a goal is a process, not just a result - no point in spending your precious time in the hope that one day you’ll reach your goal and it will change your whole life. What if that never happens? Stay conscious about the fact that achieving your goal is a process - and learn to enjoy this process, this is the only way to be successful.

Focus on important things

Don’t waste your time on something which is not really important. Stop worrying about petty things and events, if they can’t have a major impact on your life. Slow down and take a note of aspects of your life which are really important to you. Just imagine being able to fully engage in your work as soon as you arrive, and to easily stop thinking of your work as soon as you leave for home?
Focus also helps you concentrate on achieving the desired result by simply making everything else less visible and noticeable for a period of time. Learning to focus means ignoring all the noise and working on the real goal.

Master your habits

It is quite possible (and actually not so hard) to work out the habits you want and to get rid of the habits you don’t need. I’ve mastered many habits over the past year, and what I can tell is that after just a few months and a few habits successfully mastered, you will gain both the knowledge and the confidence needed for controlling any habit you want.

Here are just a few things you can make a habit to make yourself a better person and enjoy your life in ways never possible:
- wake up as early as 5am
- always think of ways to please people around you - start with your family
- exercise regularly
- make sure to regularly read books and write posts or articles

Get organized

Organize your workplace and your home office, designate areas and time for processing your email and other incoming information like letters, magazines, newspapers and print-outs. Get rid of all the stuff you don’t need, and learn to do it during your processing sessions. For instance, if you have time in the morning to read your emails - go through all the new mails and decide on the next action right there for each email in your inbox - put useful information into appropriate folders and delete useless emails right away. Label the rest so that it’s easy for you to later see what emails need to be replied first.
Organize your contacts and your books, and learn more about personal finance. Staying organized isn’t an easy task, but trust me, it’s the best approach. If you don’t organize anything, you will eventually start missing important meetings, forgetting emails and losing money. No wonder getting organized costs huge sums of money when professional consultants come to your office and do it for you. Why wait till this happens, when you can easily get and stay organized by spending just a mere 5-15 minutes a day?

Plan ahead and manage time effectively

Start planning everything you do, and be sure to review your plans now and then to reflect on why some things on your list did or did not happen. You should plan for everything - including your time off and holiday breaks, hobbies and other activities.
Get into a habit of planning your week ahead, even if it’s just a high-level overview of what has to be done.Use 2 minutes approach in everything you do.

Our life isn’t about sacrifices, but if there are any we’re making at all, then time is definitely one of them. To do anything, you have to put your time to it. So whenever a new opportunity arises, don’t simply throw it away by saying you have no time. Take the 2 minutes approach again. Look at the opportunity. See it a goal. See what the positive sides are. Try and quickly break it into some steps, and try to predict the time commitment required for each.

LoveYou

You’ve got to love yourself and enjoy self-growth and constant improvements you’re making. You need to love what you’re doing - it will benefit everything you do, be it something at work or at home. Love your family and cherish your friends. Be caring and genuinely interested in others. Here are the words by Beatles which say it best:

There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done.Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung.Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the gameIt’s easy.
There’s nothing you can make that can’t be made.No one you can save that can’t be saved.Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be in timeIt’s easy.
All you need is love, all you need is love,All you need is love, love, love is all you need.