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Happy New Year! Wishing you a success filled 2024!

Our daily habits, positive or negative, will eventually lead to good or bad consequences. What daily habit can you start today that would change your life in a positive way months or years from now?

Planning that perfect summer vacation takes effort. So does planning for the lifestyle you dream of. Why not do both!

Pursuing our goals often means taking risks, but don’t underestimate the risk we take by doing nothing at all.

While success can be defined as a favorable outcome, most often we don't have control over outcomes. We DO have control of our actions and our habits. So we must choose the actions and habits that have the most likelihood of achieving the outcomes we want.

There are probably several reasons Steve Jobs wore the same outfit every day. Likely to top that list is having one less decision to make. Decisions to be made on trivial things equate to distractions and wear down our ability to focus on the more impactful decisions. One thing that can help is to write down and review all the decisions you had to make today. Which ones slowed you down? Which were unnecessary or didn't add value?

Small changes = changes! We're more likely to stick with positive, incremental change than when we try to overhaul ourselves overnight.

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Happy New Year!! What daily habits and routines do you have on tap to leave 2023 no choice but to give you all you deserve? Let's go!

Looking back at your day, how much of your time was spent working toward your goals? Too many distractions? Where would you be in 6 months, 1 year, 5 years if you spent a greater percentage of your time on activities that moved you toward your goals?

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As they say most of us overestimate what we can do in a year and underestimate what can do in 5 years. Small daily actions add up to big results over time...

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"The point here is that instead of forcing our brains how to remember more information with "passive" methods, we should focus our time, energy, and resources on "participatory" methods that have proven to deliver more effective results, in less time."

Time Is Money--Spend Less Remembering and More Learning Learn faster and retain more with this method.

What tools do you use to ensure you are working at becoming better today than you were yesterday?

Struggling with finding enough motivation to get you to take action? What if it actually works better in reverse? Take action first and then watch the motivation appear.

Our minds focus best when they're well cared for. Make healthy sleep a routine priority: eliminate blue light before bedtime, optimize sleep spaces, and practice an evening ritual to ease into sleep.

With a myriad of screens and responsibilities vying for our attention, focus is essential. Studies suggest that we're much more effective when we focus on one thing instead of trying to juggle it all.

Peruse the study here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0903620106

What we actually did reflects our true priorities better than what we planned to do. What does your calendar say about your priorities?

Small steps made consistently yield big results. Keep moving forward!

Building a new habit?

Establish new routines more easily by completing them immediately before or after good habits that you already have in place.

When we invest the time to automate routine and recurring tasks, we ultimately free up our time to tackle what matters most to us.

Maximize the impact of your time with these strategies.
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Audit: Find out what's sapping time and energy - retroactive journaling is a great tool for this.

Automate: From recurring calendar tasks to "auto-brew" on the coffee maker, taking the extra time to create a time-saving system is a worthwhile investment.

Delegate: Understand and leverage a team's unique strengths and abilities to maximize everyone's efforts.

Congratulations 126th Boston Marathon Runners!

Cheers to your drive and dedication.

The ingredients small business owners and entrepreneurs need for success:
🤝Grit: for determination and tenacity
💪Grind: for early mornings and long nights
🙏Gratitude: for keeping things in perspective



https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinessdevelopmentcouncil/2021/05/05/grit-grind-and-gratitude-harnessing-the-three-gs-mantra-as-a-small-business-owner/?sh=671932f67d13

Council Post: Grit, Grind And Gratitude: Harnessing The Three Gs Mantra As A Small Business Owner Leaders in any position stand to gain from the example set by small business owners.

Journaling helps us gain clarity and focus. Take a moment for reflection with this week's prompt: what does success mean to you?

Success is highly individualized. We'll view success differently than our family, friends, and colleagues. Defining our personal vision of success will allow us to more efficiently work to achieve it.