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Align your life
Take the time to identify the different conflicts in your life and find ways to solve them.
The Nine Habits to Increase Your Energy
Read better books
The best books aren’t those that teach you facts, but those that subtly change your entire thinking patterns. Just like a good song can be the background for a particular emotion, a good book can be the background for a particular energy of thinking.
The Nine Habits to Increase Your Energy
Get better friends
If your conversations with your friends leave you feeling drained, then maybe it's time to make some changes. You don't have to exclude friends who are going through temporarily rough times, but assess your relationships and be aware of who you spend your time with and the value this really brings to your life.
The Nine Habits to Increase Your Energy
Sell yourself on your goals
Frame your goals in an exciting and motivating way, not just like something you "have to do". Remind yourself why you're pursuing them, what inspires you and what you hope to achieve.
The Nine Habits to Increase Your Energy
Set your intention the day before
Write your goals for the next day before you go to bed. This way, you'll waste no time deciding what to do next the following day and you'll keep the momentum going.
The Nine Habits to Increase Your Energy
Exercise every day
Exercise is a long-term investment in your energy levels. It’s easy to cut in the short-term, but over time you’ll reduce your overall fitness, making it harder to focus and stay alert throughout the day.
The Nine Habits to Increase Your Energy
Planning for Every Possible Scenario
Overanalyzing every possible scenario or roadblock means you’ll continue to postpone getting started on a project. So commit to getting started. You can still make changes along the way.
4 Ways You're Making Your Job Harder Than It Is
Forgetting Previous Feedback
Needing to change the same thing time and time again can be really frustrating. So consider starting a feedback log for yourself, where you can reference changes that were suggested previously and ensure that you incorporate them into your future assignments.
4 Ways You're Making Your Job Harder Than It Is
Seeking Everybody’s Approval
When starting a new task or assignment, figure out exactly who is the key decision-maker. That will give you the confidence you need to move forward—without hearing from absolutely everybody involved.
4 Ways You're Making Your Job Harder Than It Is
Clinging to Outdated Processes
Sometimes it seems way easier to hang on to your standard way of doing things than to adjust to your company’s new process. But your approach is probably slowing you down. New features are usually adopted because they're more efficient. So figure out what you need to do to familiarize yourself with that new process.
4 Ways You're Making Your Job Harder Than It Is
Create routines
Going to sleep and waking up at the same time, working out in the morning, reading before bed—a routine imposes structure on an otherwise chaotic day.
5 Self-Care Tips For Staying Sane While Juggling A Demanding Career
Find time for friendships
A hectic work schedule demands a strong support system. If you focus strictly on your career and forget about the relationships you’ve built with friends and family, then you’ll be on a one-way track to burnout.
5 Self-Care Tips For Staying Sane While Juggling A Demanding Career
Accept uncertainty
You’re never going to have complete certainty about everything at work. You have to make your peace with the fact that there’s only so much you can control. It’s crucial for your self-care that you learn to adapt when the road ahead is unclear.
5 Self-Care Tips For Staying Sane While Juggling A Demanding Career
Take control of your time
Your calendar and inbox can either be your best friends or your worst enemies—it all depends on how you use them: schedule 30-minute open blocks of time into your calendar every day (to each lunch, deal with something urgent or simply for taking a break). set specific times to check for any new messages—and avoid it the rest of the day.
5 Self-Care Tips For Staying Sane While Juggling A Demanding Career
Don't feel guilty for saying no
There’s no harm in saying “no” to an invitation if you know it will leave you drained for the rest of the week or eat up precious time you could spend on meaningful activities.
5 Self-Care Tips For Staying Sane While Juggling A Demanding Career
Creating momentum
Start by defining your one goal, the purpose of your chain. Schedule uninterrupted times into your day for it. Pursue your chain using whatever tools make sense to you: you can choose to use a digital calendar or an analog one. Create outcome-based requirements for every link you add to the chain. Set reasonable boundaries that keep you on track, not scare you away.
The science behind making a change that lasts | The JotForm Blog
This endowed progress effect
This shows that a person who feels like they're making progress toward a goal is more likely to complete it and faster than a person who feels they’re starting from scratch.
The science behind making a change that lasts | The JotForm Blog
“Where I’d had huge success, I had narrowed my concentration to one thing, and where my success varied, my focus had, too … Success is sequential, not simultaneous.”
The science behind making a change that lasts | The JotForm Blog
The compound effect
Sustained momentum toward a singular goal creates a compound effect. This means that consistent, incremental changes can result in fundamental changes over time.
The science behind making a change that lasts | The JotForm Blog
Momentum vs Friction
Not breaking the chain leads to momentum , the force that allows something to grow stronger or faster as time passes. But like everything else, momentum has an equal and opposite reaction. Friction is the resistance caused when one object is moving at a different rate than another. Friction the enemy of momentum, the force that breaks the chain.
The science behind making a change that lasts | The JotForm Blog