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Watch this short video and get a better understanding of motivation and why we do what we do.
It’ll serve you well as you conquer your next big goal!
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Most of us put too much pressure on ourselves.
We have a zillion different projects going at once, with none of them really getting anywhere (I’ve been there).
After making little progress on any one thing, our motivation starts to lag, naturally.
Yet we keep doing this time and time again.
When we see little progress and are working constantly, we exhaust ourselves, body, spirit, and mind.
One of the top ways to get motivated and stay that way is to focus on one goal at a time.
Give it your total focus and appreciate each little step, letting the small victories add up.
Personal growth doesn’t happen by accident. It takes work, the right mindset, and a willingness to improve every day. Developing good habits helps you work toward improvement and personal growth. Habits become the framework for building a better life.
Habits are the things you do regularly without really thinking about them. They become part of your routine. Habits that promote personal growth help you maintain a positive outlook, improve, and deal with life’s challenges. Here are five essential habits to help you get started.
1. Meditate
Meditation is taking the time to shut out the world and focus on your thoughts, feelings, and goals. It’s time to examine how and why you react to challenges in life. You can also use medication to prepare yourself for life’s challenges through personal growth. Understanding and having control over yourself is the foundation of personal growth.
Meditation can be a formal process where you set aside time each day to relax, concentrate, and listen to your thoughts and emotions. The act of meditating daily is a habit, and performing daily meditation helps build the positive habits of peacefulness, understanding, and control. You can also take time as you need it throughout the day to meditate on your current situation or circumstances. Meditation can be a “pause” in your response to life’s challenges to allow you time to collect your thoughts.
2. Gratitude/Prayer
The habit of gratitude comes partly from learning, though meditation, what you can and cannot control. Gratitude also comes from learning to be mindful of each moment and seeing your circumstances with a positive mindset. When you learn to practice gratitude as a habit, you approach every situation with an open mind, looking for the best, instead of expecting the worst. Gratitude promotes your personal growth by improving your mindset.
Psychologists believe that people who practice gratitude have a better sense of well-being, are more positive, and have a better support system of family, friends, and mentors than people who haven’t made gratitude a habit. Gratitude allows you to accept help and support gracefully, increasing your opportunities for personal growth. It also makes you a more positive personal and improves your mindset and reaction to life’s challenges.
3. Affirmations
Affirmations are a way to build your self-esteem, outlook, and promote personal growth. By using affirmations as a habit, you counter negative self-talk with positive beliefs. Affirmations can be spoken or written and should be something you reflect on daily.
You can use affirmations to remind yourself that you have the abilities, skills, and control to be a better person. You can also use affirmations to stay focused on achieving your goals. Affirmations promote personal growth by placing your positive qualities and greatest desires first and foremost in your mind. By focusing on your affirmations, you create a mindset of improved personal growth.
4. Read and Learn
Take time every day to read something or learn something new. Reading and learning are habits that promote your personal growth by improving your skills, knowledge, and self-esteem. The more you know and understand, the more positive and productive you will be.
You can develop the habit of reading and learning by subscribing to a magazine or an online class or service. Chose a topic that interests you or something you’re curious about learning. The simple habit of learning a new word each day, reading a chapter of a book, or watching a short how-to or history lesson video increase your knowledge and promote your personal growth.
5. Exercise
Like meditation, exercise can be a formal or informal time each day. Formal exercise, like going to the gym or taking an exercise class, promotes both physical and mental personal growth. But informal exercise is important too. Taking time each day to stretch, get up and walk around, or even to practice deep breathing exercises helps to improve physical health and relieve stress.
Doctors and health coaches agree that exercise releases endorphins, or chemicals that give pleasure, into the brain. Endorphins can lover your stress response and improve your immune system. Exercise not only promotes a healthy body, but it also promotes a healthy mind. Making exercise a habit promotes personal growth by helping you lessen stress and be physically able to handle life’s challenges.
The habits of meditation, gratitude, affirmations, reading, and learning, and exercise are all vital habits that promote personal growth. You can create these habits by focusing on yourself and your mind, body, and spirit.
Really push yourself for this.
✅ Try to get as many pushups in your three minutes as possible.
✅ The same for your squats.
✅ And run/walk/jog that one mile as fast as you can. Get a personal best!
Congrats for making it through this challenge!
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Tip: Creating your fitness routine. As you’ve seen from this 30-day challenge, strength, cardio, and mobility are the three pillars of fitness and overall health.
As you move beyond this challenge, think about how you can continue to fit all three into your daily lifestyle. Some programs like martial arts or CrossFit embrace all three in their daily workouts. You can also create your own fitness program or you can “graduate” to my 28-Day Rigorous Transformation Program.
Repeat each of these 10 times.
Assess Your Week: Two more days until you’re done! Congratulations on making it this far. Start thinking about what you can do, and what you want to do, when this challenge is over. Consider what you liked and didn’t like about the challenge.
Also think about how you might reward yourself for completing the challenge. Maybe you buy yourself a new exercise outfit or a new pair of fitness shoes. Or maybe you join a gym, buy a fitness DVD or some new home gym equipment.
You now know that you have it in you to exercise every day and that rest days are still days when you spend some time on your fitness and mobility. That’s a pretty significant realization. You’re capable of so much!
You’ve worked pretty hard for the past 5 days. Today is a day to work through those muscle aches and pains.
It’s a mobility day. Spend 20-30 minutes working on your muscles.
If you have a foam roller, use it. Roll out your glutes, quad and thigh muscles, roll along the outside of your leg as well.
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60 minutes of moderate intensity cardio. Keep this moderate.
You should be able to maintain the same pace throughout the entire 60 minutes. If that means that you’re walking briskly for an hour, then that’s great.
The goal is to keep your heart rate elevated, but not at maximum effort. You should be able to hold a conversation while you exercise.
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Tip: Set goals for your workouts.
If you set an intention or a goal for each workout, it can help you focus on your effort and achieve a better outcome. For example, today was a day of leg work and a lot of squats. Your goal might be to make sure every squat was perfect or that when your legs need a rest you might push yourself a bit and do one more squat.
Or if it usually takes you six minutes to get through 60, you’ll push yourself and try to get it done in five. Setting goals for your workout can help you push yourself so you get a better workout. It also helps you learn what your body is capable of.
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