The surprising habits of original thinkers

How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies "originals": thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals — including embracing failure. "The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they're the ones who try the most," Grant says. "You need a lot of bad ideas in order to get a few good ones."

The Secret to Success : Routine

The secret to success is consistency. Build a good daily routine and you are guaranteeing success.

For example , every day you could ask yourself -  What are my 3 goals for tomorrow?

Then at the end of tomorrow you could compare what you did with your goal.

This daily habit will start you focusing on what you want to achieve from the day. So throughout the day you can adjust your plans to ensure that your goals are reached as opposed to being a slave to other people's goal. 

Try it out and see how it works!

On the topic of daily routines, here is an interesting article by Katheryn Hobyn.

High Performance and Quality Equals Routine

Writer Stephen King, commits to writing two thousand words a day, and usually he does so between 8 am to 11:30 am every day. Swimmer Michael Phelps, gets up and does warm up exercises and creative visualization exercises every day before competition. Twitter and Square Founder Jack Dorsey, who had worked 8 hours per day at each company, created the "themed" day, where he worked on one area per day, such as product development. On Saturday he has a free day, and Sunday he sets aside for reflection, strategy, feedback and planning for the next week.

Benjamin Franklin, who helped write the US Constitution, and was the inventor of Bifocals, and the lightning Rod, asked two questions every day, "What good shall I do today?" and "What good have I done today?" Every day, he also had morning routine for himself of what he called an 'Air Bath.' In which he sat in the very cold air as a way to purify himself, and open his imagination.

Albert Einstein, the physicist who developed, The Theory of Relativity, took a daily walk. He lived in the present moment. He focused intensely on a task at hand. Apple Computer inventor, Steve Jobs looked in the mirror every day and asked the same question to himself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I'm about to do today? If the answer was no, he would change his intention for the day. Nikola Tesla, the inventor of the electric motor and laser, walked up to eight to ten miles per day, he avoided acidic foods, and he used a technique of creative visualization called a mind box, in which he could fully design and manipulate a thought version of his invention to completion prior to him building it.

A daily routine is important as a catalyst, which leads to tasks of productivity and creativity. Your natural rhythm decides the order which works best for you and there is no right or wrong. Instead of thinking about what to do next put it into your daily schedule. Gary Keller who founded Keller Williams Realty stated, "If it's not in your schedule it doesn't exist."

Consistent daily tasks are accumulative. Stephen King, has written 55 books, and several short stories, by consistently writing two thousand words per day. Nikola Tesla's many amazing inventions are still impacting the world.

As a yoga teacher for the past twenty years, I have a daily routine to stretch each morning for ten minutes, and then before I go to sleep I do another ten minutes. Every night before I get into bed, I wash my feet, because I believe that a cleanse discharges any accumulation of negative energy. Along with that habit, I wash under my finger nails and toe nails which I feel has kept me healthy and free of germs.

As a real estate sales person, I know that every day I have to lead generate to bring in the income that I want. So I consistently research owners, and businesses to find good phone numbers. I make daily calls, I walk and talk to potential owners, and sellers. I practice my presentations, so that I'm ready. Each day, I make time, to meditate and visualize what I want as results. I also practice, in my mind how it will feel when I complete the task, and feel the reward when it's done. (The winning of a prize, earn a commission, find a really tough phone number, do a masterful presentation and get a listing.)

I've always had the ability and desire to write, and now, I'm making a daily routine to wake up at 5:30 a.m. to write. The writing part doesn't always happen, because my mind says go back to bed, check your e-mail, read the news because you don't have anything to write. The alarm goes off, and I get to my desk. I'm establishing a pattern and routine. The writing will come. First, I need to be sitting at my desk, and not dreaming. Daily, I say, "This is me trusting myself. The work that I'm doing is paying off."

My daily practice and routines makes me confident, happy and relaxed. Because of daily routines, I have accomplished many of my personal goals. If you desire more productivity, and to pass milestones, set up your daily routines. Remember if it's not in your schedule it doesn't exist. Time can only do one thing. It will pass into another moment; which becomes another day and another year.

If you are doing daily habits that are sabotaging, downright unhealthy and dangerous, stop and create new daily habits. Instead of reaching for the food, take a walk, write a journal entry. Put down the daily shot of whiskey, tequila or a needle and pray or meditate instead, lift light weights, or get out for some air. If you are watching content that is polluting your mind, and heart, choose to watch something that is 100% positive, uplifting and no one gets hurt.

Daily habitual routines create the real long-term results. Ordinary moments done daily, are just ordinary. Put all the ordinary together, and you might end up with extraordinary. An extraordinary life, income, practice, and amazing results beyond anything that you had previously achieved. Right now, decide upon one daily activity and commit to it.

Article by Katheryn Hoban

Article source: http://EzineArticles.com/9904676

Daily Habits of Successful People | Brian Tracy

What are the habits of successful people? How can we learn from them? This great video from Brian Tracy shows you their secrets.




What is it that successful people do habitually every single day, that leads to them being in the top 20% of money earners in our society? Well Aristotle said that 95% of everything you do is a result of habit so the rule is form good habits and make them your masters rather than allowing bad habits to form.

Good habits are hard to form but easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to form but hard to live with.

Now one of the turning points in my life and my study of psychology was the discovery that all habits are learned and can be unlearned actually you don't unlearn a habit you replace a bad habit with a good habit that has more powerful impact, how do you develop a good habit? You develop by repetition. Almost everything you  do from the time you get up is habit. so think what are the best habits to have.

1.Develop  the habit of daily goal setting and goal orientation. 

What does this mean?

1.  When you  go to sleep at night  think about your goals for the coming day
2. Make a list for each day  of all the goals thjat you are going to accomplish that day
3. Keep a journal and write down your goals on a regular basis
4. Throughout the day (e.g. when walking or driving) think about your goals

You do become what you thing about most of the time. You do achieve what you think about most of the time. So all successful and wealthy people think of their goals all the time

2 Be result orientated.

Results orientated people are always thinking of  the most important things that they can do right now to achieve their most important results. They make a list of everything they have to do and set priorities.

Here is a great way to become result orientated. When you have your list for the day, ask yourself If you can only do one thing today (as you will be called out of town), then what would it be. Put a circle around that and start on that immediately first thing  you do and then work on that one thing non stop until you complete that one activity. This simple technique has taken people form rags to riches all over the world for 100s of years. Pick your most important task and start on it immediately and discipline yourself to stay with it until it is completes.

3. Be people orientated

Recognize that everything you achieve in life is going to be with the help of other people . What is it that other people want and need from it. How can I help other people so they want to help me back. If you are in sales top salespeople think about their customers all the time. Who are they, what they want , how they can help them the most, and help them today.

In their relationships successful people are very focused on the most important people in their world in business and personal lives.

4.Be health orientated.

Think of eating less and better food.

Think of daily exercise.

Think of lots of rest. 

Remember to be successful in our competitive world you  need lots of energy. To get a lot of energy you need good food and lots of rest.

5.Stay Honest. 

Always tell the truth no matter the price.

6.Develop Self Discipline 

Self discipline seems to be the foundation habit that makes everything else possible. The best definition of self discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do when you should do it,whether you like it or not. Anyone can do it when they feel like it. It's only when you do it when you don't want to that you develop the self discipline.

What is the one habit you should develop right now to develop your other goals? Whatever it is start practicing that habit every day from now.

Try something new for 30 days - Matt Cutts

Interesting talk by Matt Cutts on trying something new (or subtracting something) for 30 days.
What are you waiting for?



Time passes so quickly and before you know it the next 30 days would have gone.
Seneca wrote in 'On the shortness of life' that we waste our time and we don't appreciate it, so why not do something beneficial for the next 30 days. Matt Cutts mentioned  the following items to either add or subtract from his life.


Adding to his life
Bike to work
10,000 steps/day
Take a picture a day
Write a novel

Subtracting from his life
No TV
No Sugar
No Twitter
No Caffeine

And what happened? Time becomes much more memorable. It doesn't fly past.
He then began to set himself more and harder challenges and he even managed to climbing Mount Kilamanjaro!

He said if you really want to do something badly enough you can do anything for 30 days.

You could even write a novel. Every November,  many people write a 50,000 word novel from scratch in 30 days. That is 1667 words a day /for a month. The next time you are at a party you can  then say you are a novelist!
Check out the website for more details
https://nanowrimo.org/about
https://nanowrimo.org/how-it-works

He also found  that small sustainable changes are more like to stick.
If you were feeling really keen you could try doing it for 66 days as the latest research shows that a habit takes 66 days -see research from scientists at London university below.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0908/09080401

The next 30 days are going to pass whether you like it or not so why don't you try something you've always wanted to try and in 30 days time, just think how great you will feel.

So what are you  waiting for?

10 Morning Routine Habits of Successful People

Successful people active greatness by having a daily process. Here's an interesting video on some morning rituals to get you focused and ready for a good day.



What did you think of them? Do you have your own morning routines?