General Findings
Do you push yourself to be all that you can be? In your drive for excellence, you may take on so many projects that life often seems chaotic. In the midst of doing it all, do you remember to take time for yourself?
Spending time on YOU is critical! It enables you to feel rested, calm, stress-free, and fulfilled. When you’ve had proper rest, you can accomplish more and maintain the stamina to continue.
On the other hand, if you neglect to make time for yourself, you’re more likely to become depressed, stressed, or unhappy.
Perhaps you feel that there’s just not enough time for you. Somewhere in the mix, you lost any time you ever had for yourself. However, the good news is that, with some creativity and perseverance, you can recapture some of that critical you-time!
Consider using these strategies to reap some rejuvenating time for yourself:
1.Pencil yourself in. Make time for yourself by adding it as a priority in your schedule. As you fill out your planner, include it along with your other important tasks and stick to the appointment!
2.Give yourself 15 minutes when you get home. Insist on at least 15 minutes of recoup and rejuvenation time when you get home from work. If you have to lock yourself away from stressors or even family members, than that’s what you must do! This time allows you to properly transition from your work life to your home life.
?Explain this new technique to your family so that they understand its importance. This way, no one feels like you’re just avoiding them!
?A simple strategy is to soak in the bath for 15 minutes. The water will relax you, and you’ll feel refreshed after a long day.
3.Take advantage of your lunch break. Your lunch break is there for you to do what you please. After you eat, make good use of your time by going for a walk, exercising, listening to inspiring music, or even get in a bit of shopping if that’s what relaxes you.
4.Enjoy a break while the kids nap. Here’s a good tip for stay at home moms. Give yourself some much needed “you” time whenever your children sleep. You might be tempted to get as much work done as you can while they’re asleep, but you’ll find you actually get more done if you give yourself a chance to rest and rejuvenate yourself.
?Explore new ways of accomplishing things like household tasks while your kids are up. For example, turn chores into learning games that you can all participate in.
5.Go to sleep earlier. Going to sleep earlier at night will enable you to get up in time to enjoy some morning “me” time. Just think how pleasant it would be to enjoy a cup of coffee in the morning without having to look at your watch.
6.Take a vacation day. Take a vacation day to just relax and do whatever you like. You don’t have to take a trip to take a vacation! Time spent on your favorite hobbies will also rejuvenate you. When you return to work, your renewed energy may surprise you!
At first glance, these success strategies may look difficult to implement into your busy routine. A good way to get started with them is to incorporate just one at a time. That way, you only have to adjust to one small change. As you become accustomed to that one strategy, you can add another, and then another, until one day you’ll find that making time for yourself is easy.
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Posted in Self Improvement · February 3rd, 2010 · Comments (0)
Our business has 5 fundamental strategies for success that we call: ‘The 5 Pillars Of Success’. These principles act as a sort of daily ’success checklist’ by which we run our business and our lives.
One of those success strategies is ‘The Expectation Of Leadership In Yourself And Others’. Think about that statement for a minute. Our entire life, in all the various roles in which we find ourselves, we expect (often even demand), leadership from those around us.
Now I know that there are many different definitions of leadership. Let me take a moment here to define what I mean by leadership. To lead, for me, is to be in service for others. Leadership means service.
Leadership calls for respect, and respect has nothing to do with ‘like’. It took me a while to realize that ‘respect’ does not have to go hand in hand with ‘like’ and, likewise, ‘leadership’ has nothing to do with ‘telling people how to do something’. Rather, it is to do with empowering them to do things for themselves.
To be a leader, we need to first start respecting ourselves. We need to are absolute best at home and at work and give both of them the respect they deserve. More importantly, we all know that we can not help other people before we help ourselves.
As a child, we naturally assume that our parents will be our leaders. At school, we look to our teachers to be leaders. As adults, every single day, there is an expectation of leadership from the many people that we come into contact with.
We expect our manager to make the right decisions and lead the company to success. We expect sales assistants to ‘be in charge’ for us so that we can select and pay for our goods. We expect the bank clerk to lead us through our financial transactions.
Wed expect leadership in others literally every day. What then of the leadership we expect from ourselves? If we expect those around us to be in leadership for us, shouldn’t we shoulder some of the responsibility of leadership too? Shouldn’t we expect ourselves to also be a role model?
So, the next time you are standing in line at the bank, or cussing the weatherman for getting the forecast wrong, ask yourself this – Do you stand in leadership for yourself and others in every area of your life every single day?
If you are fulfilling your duty as a leader, then congratulations, I have no doubts that your life and your business are thriving at the moment. However, if you’re not currently being the leader that you should be, before you point the finger of blame at somebody else, remember that every time we point a finger, three more are pointing back at us.
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This article was edited and distributed by Mark Walters on behalf of Mandy Swift, who was the original author. Next : Success Strategies
Tags: leadership, personal development, self help, Self Improvement
Posted in Self Improvement · January 30th, 2010 · Comments (0)