What are some good "mini habits" to practice doing each day?
Answer is...
Here are 7 mini-habits that take literally 5 mins or less to do, but will change your life immensely.
If you do these 7 habits you will quickly achieve the things you want to achieve in life, you will have the success you want, and you will gain the love and respect of your friends and family.
You don't have to spend years and years of your life developing these habits, and no habit requires you to sweat out.
But just these simple habits will completely change the direction of your life and point you squarely towards getting the success you want in life.
So lets look at the 7 mini-habits that will change your life.
1. Make your bed the minute you wake up in the morning.
And do a damn-good job of making it. Stretch out the sheets, clean out the wrinkles and fold out the blankets perfectly.
There are two very tangible benefits behind making the bed perfectly in the morning.
First, you've finished a task immediately when you wake up, so you're starting your day with a small self-esteem boost of doing something, finishing somehting, and doing it very well.
Second, when you come home from a tired day, when you've lost in other areas of the day, when things haven't gone your way... you will come home to a perfectly made bed.
There will be nothing between you and a good night's sleep.
The bed will remind you of the success you had in the morning and make you go to sleep looking forward to another day.
'First thing in the morning' is more of a metaphor, meaning get the bed done before you get lost in the day.
You can let it breathe, change the bed-sheets or whatever, but before you step out of the house, get it done. Or if you want to laze around get the bed made before lazing out on the couch.
2. Put things back to where you found them
What this means is that no matter what you use in your day, as soon as you're done using it, put it back.
Done polishing your shoes? Put back the shoe polish and the brushes to where they belong.
Been cooking some food? Put back all the utensils to where they belong.
Done watching a DVD? Put it back in the box and in the shelf where it belongs.
Here's why this is super beneficial; every time you put stuff back to where it belongs you're immediately taking care of a few functions in your life;
The first is that you're clearing out the clutter instantly. When you put things back to where they belong you drastically clear clutter in your life.
Clearing clutter helps you think better and have a better organized life.
The second benefit is that when you need them the next time you won't have to look for it. You'll know where you put it back.
And over time as you make putting things back in their place a habit, you will know every time where anything is.
This has the additional benefit of saving you tons of time without actually looking for things.
If you put your car keys back to where they belong every day, you won't have to find them. You'll always know where they belong.
The third benefit is long term - that you develop a habit of putting things away which will help you in your life as you get busines and busier, putting things where they belong will help you remember where they are in the long term.
3. Pick up clutter before you go to sleep at night
This might sound like more than a 5 minute habit, however when practiced consistently this is a less than a few minute habit.
Often times we end up being tired at night and have dishes in the sink, clothes lying around in the bedroom, magazines all strewn across the coffee table... these are all messes in our lives.
When we wake up in the morning, instead of our mind focusing on the things that we have to it, focuses on these messes and our brain runs awry...
Thinking about all the things 'you should' do and not focusing on the things that you have to do... nor the things that would being you the best return on time invested.
So develop the habit of picking up any clutter you have lying around the
Answer is...
Here are 7 mini-habits that take literally 5 mins or less to do, but will change your life immensely.
If you do these 7 habits you will quickly achieve the things you want to achieve in life, you will have the success you want, and you will gain the love and respect of your friends and family.
You don't have to spend years and years of your life developing these habits, and no habit requires you to sweat out.
But just these simple habits will completely change the direction of your life and point you squarely towards getting the success you want in life.
So lets look at the 7 mini-habits that will change your life.
1. Make your bed the minute you wake up in the morning.
And do a damn-good job of making it. Stretch out the sheets, clean out the wrinkles and fold out the blankets perfectly.
There are two very tangible benefits behind making the bed perfectly in the morning.
First, you've finished a task immediately when you wake up, so you're starting your day with a small self-esteem boost of doing something, finishing somehting, and doing it very well.
Second, when you come home from a tired day, when you've lost in other areas of the day, when things haven't gone your way... you will come home to a perfectly made bed.
There will be nothing between you and a good night's sleep.
The bed will remind you of the success you had in the morning and make you go to sleep looking forward to another day.
'First thing in the morning' is more of a metaphor, meaning get the bed done before you get lost in the day.
You can let it breathe, change the bed-sheets or whatever, but before you step out of the house, get it done. Or if you want to laze around get the bed made before lazing out on the couch.
2. Put things back to where you found them
What this means is that no matter what you use in your day, as soon as you're done using it, put it back.
Done polishing your shoes? Put back the shoe polish and the brushes to where they belong.
Been cooking some food? Put back all the utensils to where they belong.
Done watching a DVD? Put it back in the box and in the shelf where it belongs.
Here's why this is super beneficial; every time you put stuff back to where it belongs you're immediately taking care of a few functions in your life;
The first is that you're clearing out the clutter instantly. When you put things back to where they belong you drastically clear clutter in your life.
Clearing clutter helps you think better and have a better organized life.
The second benefit is that when you need them the next time you won't have to look for it. You'll know where you put it back.
And over time as you make putting things back in their place a habit, you will know every time where anything is.
This has the additional benefit of saving you tons of time without actually looking for things.
If you put your car keys back to where they belong every day, you won't have to find them. You'll always know where they belong.
The third benefit is long term - that you develop a habit of putting things away which will help you in your life as you get busines and busier, putting things where they belong will help you remember where they are in the long term.
3. Pick up clutter before you go to sleep at night
This might sound like more than a 5 minute habit, however when practiced consistently this is a less than a few minute habit.
Often times we end up being tired at night and have dishes in the sink, clothes lying around in the bedroom, magazines all strewn across the coffee table... these are all messes in our lives.
When we wake up in the morning, instead of our mind focusing on the things that we have to it, focuses on these messes and our brain runs awry...
Thinking about all the things 'you should' do and not focusing on the things that you have to do... nor the things that would being you the best return on time invested.
So develop the habit of picking up any clutter you have lying around the
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