10 Simple Habits for Positive Changes

What follows are ten simple habits that are having a strong impact on my life and can improve yours too.

Go the extra mile and stand out from the crowd. Sometimes what it takes is only a little more persistence. As Jerry Rice, one of the best American football players in history, once said:

The second area is our Circle of Influence, and it represents the things we can control. For example, we can choose when we wake up, how much time we decide to spend on an important project, how much we decide to invest, how many times a week we work out, what we eat, how much water we drink, etc.

In case you’re not familiar with it, the Pomodoro Technique was developed by the Italian entrepreneur Francesco Cirillo in the 80s and it’s a time management method that consists of working in small shifts of twenty-five minutes of focused work — that is, with no interruptions — but with short breaks. Each break can last between three and five minutes.