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Brian Tracy Interview.

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Sales Tip - A Positive Mental Attitude !

Your level of mental fitness in selling is the key determinant of your success. By metal fitness I mean a positive mental attitude. A positive mental attitude has been defined as a constructive response to stress.

In sales every single day you face rejection and disappointment. In fact if you are selling in a normal market, you will be rejected and told NO 4 out of 5 times and in tough markets it can be 19 out of 20 times.  So you have to develop what psychologists call the ‘Hardy Personality’, the strong personality. And just as you become physically fit by exercising the body, you become mentally fit by exercising the mind.

The most powerful way you can exercise your mind and develop a positive mental attitude is by talking to yourself in a positive way. Start repeating to yourself everyday, “I like myself and I love my work”. And every morning before starting your day and between each phone call say this over and over again, “I like myself and I love my work”. And if you repeat this enthusiastically with emotions you start to believe it and it starts to affect your personality, you will even start to smile and you will start to laugh and then, when you get resistance and difficulties and rejections, you just laugh because you like yourself and you love your work.

Another very powerful statement that you must say to your self is, “I CAN DO IT”. “I CAN DO IT”, “I CAN DO IT”. Whenever you are reluctant to pick up the phone or knock on the door, or make the call, just say to yourself over and over again, “I CAN DO IT” and it will give you the hardy personality and it will make you mentally fit and it will make you a positive person that can bounce back from any adversity and go on to make sale after sale.

I hope you have found this useful.

Regards
John Singh

Getting to Know Jim Rohn.

5 Forms of Wealth.

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Hi its John Singh and firstly let me thank you for the gift of your time today to listen to my thoughts. Today I would like to share what I believe are the 5 forms of wealth.

You know so many of us fall into the trap of judging our wealth in economic terms or in terms of how much money we have in our bank accounts. And we look at people that we know about in our community or people that we watch on TV and we say, they are worth this amount in terms of net worth and we’re not at that level and then we make ourselves feel like we’re not successful.

Well, here the big idea. I believe that the amount of money in your bank account is only one metric or way to measure wealth. In particular, there are many forms of wealth. You know many people I’ve known in my life, my clients, friends and others that I have admired, who have an economic abundance, a very high level of economic abundance, some even have hundreds of millions of dollars in their bank account and yet they’re not happy, or they don’t have a sense of connection with other human beings. So what I’m trying to say is that economic abundance is only one form of wealth, and there are many people who are rich, but they’re not what I would call Wealthy because they don’t have all 5 of the forms of wealth

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So here’s the idea; there are 5 forms of wealth according to me and having each of those will make you a truly wealthy and successful person.

The first form of wealth is economic abundance, its having money. I think money is important, it makes life easier, it gives you Freedom.

The second form of wealth is what I call ‘Relational Wealth’. We have a deep need as human beings for community or a sense of belonging. If you have lots of money, but your not connected as human beings and you don’t have great relationships, you don’t know or haven’t connected with your family, your friends, I don’t think you’re wealthy. You might be rich, but your not wealthy. So the second form of wealth is relational wealth.

The third form of wealth is Health. If you have good health, your wealthy in so many ways. There are so many people suffering illness, they don’t experience wellness, so its important to put your health number one and take care of that temple, which is your body.

The forth form of wealth is Adventure. I believe that life in many ways is about having adventure. Its important to have fun. There’s a lot of people who have a lot of money but they don’t have fun. They don’t have that child like sense of wonder. They don’t enjoy living in the moment. They don’t know how to play. They’ve forgot that child that lives within them. One psychologist once said, adults are nothing more than deteriorated children and I find that, it is a form of wealth when you connect with that child like spirit that maybe you’ve lost.

And then the fifth form of wealth is contribution and impact. A lot of people have a lot of money, but they don’t have a sense of meaning. They don’t have the sense of Making a Difference. And, one of the highest of all human hungers is the hunger to know that we’re not walking the planet in vain. That the world, in some way, no matter in how small a way is better because we’ve graced the planet. So, I think its really important to find true wealth in your life to work on all 5 forms of these wealth in concert.

Now, let me give you some simple tactics to help you work on each of these  forms of wealth.

Number 1, economic wealth. Work with a financial coach, come up with a game plan. And another tactic around this of economic wealth is to save 10% of what you earn and invest that money for the long term, I promise that you will never regret this investment.

Some tactics to help you with the second form of wealth, which I call relational wealth is Put people first, that will help you build great relationships, spend time with people, MTP – Meet the people, face time is so important. Another idea about relational wealth is to leave people better than when you find them. I once knew an admirable CEO of a very successful organization with whom I had the privilege of having lunch with a few years ago and when I asked him, Bill what is the single biggest contributor of success so far in your life and in business, he looked at with silence for a few seconds and then he had tears in his eyes and he simply said, John, I always try and add outrageous value to every thing I do, I’m always trying to better myself, my company and most importantly my people, I always leave people better than when I find them and I try to be the kindest person that I know. Wow, it was no wonder he was so successful.

Dealing with the third form of wealth, Health. Some ideas, exercise 5 times a week. Eat ultra well because diet effects your health ofcourse and really take care of the temple, that is your body.

So tactics around this forth form of wealth, Adventure. Have FUN, make the time to dance in the park or in the rain. Make the time to listen to great music, make the time to laugh. The human brain according to the latest scientific research, the human brain craves novelty. So really a great way to become happier is to challenge yourself through adventures. Each week get into a habit of having a micro adventure. You don’t have to go down to Bahamas or go parasailing or anything of that sort to have an adventure. In your week you can actually inject what I call a micro adventure onto your schedule to increase the level of adventure in your life. What is an example of a micro adventure? Well, it could be tying a new type of food, if you’ve never tried Vietnamese food then go and do that. It could be going to an art gallery that you have never done before, it could be having lunch with a yoga teacher or a painter or someone who is doing something that you’ve never done so that you can learn and expand your horizons.

And lastly some tactics of the fifth or perhaps the most important form of wealth which is contribution and impact. Some ideas.. Number 1, do your part to improve the world, do your part to improve the community, do your part to improve the organization that you’re working for. Another idea, volunteer. You know no matter what your problems are, I guarantee that there are people that are suffering from things that are even more serious.

That makes me think of that old Persian proverb, I cursed the fact that I had no shoes on my feet, until I saw the man who had no feet. So make you’re focused on contribution and making the world a better place from what you do each day. That makes me think of what a father once said to a son, he said Son when you were born, you cried, while the world rejoiced, son, he said, make sure you live your life in such a way that when you die, the world cries while you rejoiced.

And as Mark Twain once said, live your life in such a way that even the undertaker has tears in his eyes.

Ok there you have it.. those are the 5 forms of wealth; economic wealth, relational wealth, health wealth, adventure, and finally the 5^th form of wealth contribution and impact. Work on each one of those 5 and you’ll truly get to a place of not only wealth, true wealth but also great happiness.

Thank you for listening to me today and I wish you all the best in YOUR quest of true wealth and happiness. If you would like to contact me, please feel free to email me at mail@johnsingh.com

Thank you.

8 Things Successful People Do...

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Hi my name is John Singh and the title for my thoughts of the day today is ‘Eight things that successful people do’ and I’m simply going to articulate eight things that I’ve observed in highly successful people that you can bring into your life to get to your own unique form of greatness.

First of all, successful people are incredibly focused around their deliverables or around their to-dos. In other words they are focused around their GOALS. I call it the law of linkage. The most productive people, the most effective people simple make sure that everything that they do are aligned their goals, so every activity somehow gets them closer to where they want to be at the end of their lives. Focus and clarity is so very important to live your best life. FOCUS, CLARITY, FOCUS, CLARITY… Get good at saying no to the things that are unimportant so that you can say YES to the things that are truly important.

The second thing that successful people. They are positive and passionate. Its so important to be the most positive person that you know, its so important to be so passionate about what you’re trying to create and the life you’re trying to live that other people will feel that passion, because passion is truly contagious. And when you get excited about your goals and when you get excited about your to-do’s, that rubs off on people and they get excite too.

Number 3, successful people work hard. It reminds me of that old line; ‘the harder I work, the luckier I get’. I have never seen a truly successful leader that dosent outwork every one around them. Hard work yields wonderful results.

Number 4. NSI, Never stop innovating. Successful people are always innovating. They’re always coming up with new idea on slips of paper or napkins in restaurants or in their dreams while they sleep or while they go for their morning jog. They’re always asking, how could I improve my business, how can I improve my job, how can I improve my thinking, how can I improve my communications or how can I improve my health or my family life. NSI, never stop innovating, never accept the ordinary, always be pushing the envelope.

Number 5. Successful people use their time well. Become a masterful time manager. The idea is simply this, become world class at managing your time. Time is a commodity that slips through your hands like grains of sand. This moment that we’re sharing right now will never come again. This day today will never come again, you cannot recapture what you’ve done today. So you wanna be so good at focusing your time on the things that truly count.

Number 6. Successful people add outrageous value. Successful people are always asking themselves, how can I help other people live better lives. How can I help other people live their dreams, how can I add outrageous amounts of value to my clients to elevate their businesses or elevate the way they do things. And pure and simple, when you get other people get to their goals, they will help you get to your goals. When you deliver exquisite amounts of value to other people, that sets you up to win.

That brings be to point number 7. Successful people have strong relationships with other human beings. Business in so many ways is all about relationships. Successful people put people first. In this busy world where we live in with constant change, increased demands from our customers, you being expected to do more with less. Business is all about relationships, business is all about people, in may ways business is a conversation. If you loose the conversation with your people, you’ll loose the business. If you loose the conversation with your team mates, you’ll loose the organization and yet so many of us forget that.

We live in a world where we can send a satellite across the world with pinpoint accuracy and yet we have trouble walking across the street to meet a new neighbor. We have so much on our plates each day, we connect with people with our blackberry, we connect with people through email, or voice mail or through text messages and we’ve forgotten about the power of human connection. And yet business is really about building relations, high trust relationships. Building bonds with people, breaking bread with them, laughing with them, getting to know them as human beings. Here’s the big idea, before someone will lend you a hand, you have to tough their heart.

People love doing business with people they trust. People want to do business with people they like. Make the time to build relationships, make the time to do good things for people. Make the time to break bread with your customers and your suppliers and your team-mates. And of course, make the time to build strong relationships with your family members and your friends. In so many ways your rich lives comes down to the quality of your human connections.

And the 8^th thing that successful people do is that, they are devoted to excellence. They want to be the best at what they do, they want to me magnificently great in their careers. They want stand for the highest and they want to be truly excellent.

So there you have it, eight things that successful people do. You may have heard me talk about my 3 step successful formula before, Awareness precedes Choice, which precedes Results. With better awareness you’ll make better choices, and with better choices, of course you’ll see better results. Apply that 3 step success formula to these 8 traits that I’ve shared with you. Now that you have better awareness about the kind of things that truly successful people do, you can make better choices today. And when you begin to make those choices, you WILL start to see better RESULTS.

Authentic Leadership

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Authentic leadership has nothing to do with position or title. You know one of the key things I spent my life doing is helping employees and helping people lead without title. Because ultimately leadership is not about your title, it about what you do, its about how you show up, its about the results you create, its about taking personal responsibility, its about seeing the best in other people, its about innovating, its about reaching for something higher, its about getting yourself and you organization to world class. I guess what I’m suggesting to you is great organizations are made up of women and men that see themselves as leaders, no matter what they do in the company.

I believe that every single person in this planet is hard wired to play their highest game, that’s what we were meant to do, that’s what is available to us.

In other words, you as a human being have a deep need, it might be subconscious, but you have a deep need to actualize your highest human potential and be the best that you can be. And when you fail to live up to that duty, you betray yourself and I believe that the greatest crime that human beings can commit is the crime of self-betrayal.

When you fail to play your highest game as human being and when you fail to bring all your talents and energy to the work you do, I believe that you are literally sabotaging yourself and preventing yourself in the fulfillment, joy and inner peace that is your birth right. So authentic leadership is all about making choices in every minute of everyday that will cause more of your best self to shine through in everything that you do.

Authentic leadership is about taking a stand for the life you want to create both professionally and personally. You know, what could be more important than that, because life is a gift you don’t want to waste. Authentic leaders don’t play victim, authentic leadership don’t blame the bosses, or their team mates or the competition for whats not working in their professional life, instead authentic leaders have the courage and the inner bravery to understand that ‘If its meant to be, its up to me”. They are all about actions and creating results. You notice that if you point your finger at me, there’s one finger pointing at me, but how many are back at you. I think it’s a simple metaphore to remind you of what leadership is all about. At all times remember that its important to take personal responsibility for making things better. In other words you don’t ever want to be part of the problem, you always want to be a part of the solution.
In an issue a little while ago in Vanity Fair, Jennifer Anniston was talking about some of her philosophies on life and she said something very interesting. She simply said that if there’s a problem in my life, I give myself 1 day to play victim and the day after that I get up and I take responsibility for my role in the problem. And then she added, even if I’ve only been a 1 percent contributor to that problem. Wow.. I thing this is a very powerful way to live. Blaming others is nothing more than excusing your self and there’s no authentic leadership in that. If you were to wake up every morning and ask yourself, what’s not working in my life and then take ownership of what you’ve contributed, even if only 1% to that problem and work on that 1%, that would be such a powerful way to live. And here’s the big idea, the more that you take personal responsibility over your life, the problems, what’s not working, the challenges, the irritations, the frustrations, the more powerful you become, the more confident you become. The realm in which you can make decisions begins to expand and you begin to see new possibilities and begin to step into your very best self and you begin to see the world with a new set of lenses.

So Authentic leaders always go for the high choices and in doing so, they design extraordinary lives for themselves.

Do not postpone living. Celebrate!

A man after having lost his wealth, prayed to God and got a boon that from dawn to disk on the following day, whatever land he covers by running can be owned by him.

The man started running at dawn and kept running even after he covered more than what he lost. He refused to heed his body's pleas for rest and food. His mind was filled with thoughts of the land owned by his neighbors and relatives. By evening, he felt dizzy and weak. In the distance, he saw a burial ground and a river flowing beyond it. He was very happy at the thought of owning a river and a place where he and his progeny could be buried and decided that he would stop after he reached the river. Just as the sun was about to set, he reached the river.

He bent down to sip some water. The moment his lips touched the water, he dropped dead of exhaustion. They buried him in the burial ground that he had crossed!

This is how we all live our lives. We run the race without even stopping to think why we are running. We travel in the horizontal dimension of thinking "what next?" all the time. This is what causes us to run. As long as we are moving in this horizontal line, we will run till we drop dead in our grave. Travelling from more to more is only travelling towards our grave. It is just slow death! It can never be life.

It is possible to satisfy our needs, but it becomes impossible to satisfy our wants because, they are changing and unclear all the time. Every time one want is fulfilled, a hundred more come up.

Always, as long as we are chasing something, it seems that it is worth the whole world; but after we get it, somehow it is not important any longer! If we become aware of ourselves and understand what exactly we want, and try to do that alone, we will never find ourselves in this kind of self-contradictory and fragmented situation.

Never think, let me work now, I can enjoy later! I tell you, it will never happen. Every tomorrow comes in the form of today only. Doing should lead to being every moment: only then we are on the right track. It is now or never. We all run throughout our lives thinking we can enjoy later, but we land up running into the graveyard.

So don't postpone living. Celebrate! It is now or never!

Be blissful!

30 Days to start living a world class life.

A powerful personal growth tool is the 30-day trial. This is a concept I borrowed from the shareware industry, where you can download a trial version of a piece of software and try it out risk-free for 30 days before you’re required to buy the full version. It’s also a great way to develop new habits, and best of all, it’s brain-dead simple.

Let’s say you want to start a new habit like an exercise program or quit a bad habit like sucking on cancer sticks. We all know that getting started and sticking with the new habit for a few weeks is the hard part. Once you’ve overcome inertia, it’s much easier to keep going.

Yet we often psyche ourselves out of getting started by mentally thinking about the change as something permanent — before we’ve even begun. It seems too overwhelming to think about making a big change and sticking with it every day for the rest of your life when you’re still habituated to doing the opposite. The more you think about the change as something permanent, the more you stay put.

But what if you thought about making the change only temporarily — say for 30 days — and then you’re free to go back to your old habits? That doesn’t seem so hard anymore. Exercise daily for just 30 days, then quit. Maintain a neatly organized desk for 30 days, then slack off. Read for an hour a day for 30 days, then go back to watching TV.

Could you do it? It still requires a bit of discipline and commitment, but not nearly so much as making a permanent change. Any perceived deprivation is only temporary. You can count down the days to freedom. And for at least 30 days, you’ll gain some benefit. It’s not so bad. You can handle it. It’s only one month out of your life.

Now if you actually complete a 30-day trial, what’s going to happen? First, you’ll go far enough to establish it as a habit, and it will be easier to maintain than it was to begin it. Secondly, you’ll break the addiction of your old habit during this time. Thirdly, you’ll have 30 days of success behind you, which will give you greater confidence that you can continue. And fourthly, you’ll gain 30 days worth of results, which will give you practical feedback on what you can expect if you continue, putting you in a better place to make informed long-term decisions.

Therefore, once you hit the end of the 30-day trial, your ability to make the habit permanent is vastly increased. But even if you aren’t ready to make it permanent, you can opt to extend your trial period to 60 or 90 days. The longer you go with the trial period, the easier it will be to lock in the new habit for life.

Another benefit of this approach is that you can use it to test new habits where you really aren’t sure if you’d even want to continue for life. Maybe you’d like to try a new diet, but you don’t know if you’d find it too restrictive. In that case, do a 30-day trial and then re-evaluate. There’s no shame in stopping if you know the new habit doesn’t suit you. It’s like trying a piece of shareware for 30 days and then uninstalling it if it doesn’t suit your needs. No harm, no foul.

Here are some examples from my own life where I used 30-day trials to establish new habits:

1) In the Summer of 2006, I wanted to try being vegetarian. I had no interest in making this a lifelong change, but I’d read a lot about the health benefits of vegetarianism, so I committed to it for 30 days just for the experience. I was already exercising regularly, seemed in decent health, and was not overweight (6′0″, 155 lbs), but my typical college diet included a lot of In-N-Out burgers. Going lacto-ovo vegetarian for 30 days was a lot easier than I expected — I can’t say it was hard at all, and I never felt deprived. Within a week I noticed an increase in my energy and concentration, and I felt more clear-headed. At the end of the 30 days, it was a no-brainer to stick with it. This change looked a lot harder than it really was.

2) In January 2008, I decided to try going from vegetarian to vegan. While lacto-ovo vegetarians can eat eggs and dairy, vegans don’t eat anything that comes from an animal. I was developing an interest in going vegan for life, but I didn’t think I could do it. How could I give up veggie-cheese omelettes? The diet seemed too restrictive to me — even fanatically so. But I was intensely curious to know what it was actually like. So once again I did a 30-day trial. At the time I figured I’d make it through the trial, but I honestly didn’t expect to continue beyond that. Well, I lost seven pounds in the first week, mostly from going to the bathroom as all the accumulated dairy mucus was cleansed from my bowels (now I know why cows need four stomachs to properly digest this stuff). I felt lousy the first couple days but then my energy surged. I also felt more clear-headed than ever, as if a “fog of brain” had been lifted; it felt like my brain had gotten a CPU and a RAM upgrade. However, the biggest change I noticed was in my endurance. I was living in Marina del Rey at the time and used to run along the beach near the Santa Monica Pier, and I noticed I wasn’t as tired after my usual 3-mile runs, so I started increasing them to 5 miles, 10 miles, and then eventually a marathon a few years later. In Tae Kwon Do, the extra endurance really gave a boost to my sparring skills as well. The accumulated benefits were so great that the foods I was giving up just didn’t seem so appealing anymore. So once again it was a no-brainer to continue after the first 30 days, and I’m still vegan today. What I didn’t expect was that after so long on this diet, the old animal product foods I used to eat just don’t seem like food anymore, so there’s no feeling of deprivation.

3) Also in 2006, I decided I wanted to exercise every single day for a year. That was my 2006 New Year’s resolution. My criteria was that I would exercise aerobically at least 25 minutes every day, and I wouldn’t count Tae Kwon Do classes which I was taking 2-3 days per week. Coupled with my dietary changes, I wanted to push my fitness to a new level. I didn’t want to miss a single day, not even for sick days. But thinking about exercising 365 days in a row was daunting, so I mentally began with a 30-day trial. That wasn’t so bad. After a while every day that passed set a new record: 8 days in a row… 10 days… 15 days…. It became harder to quit. After 30 days in a row, how could I not do 31 and set a new personal record? And can you imagine giving up after 250 days? No way. After the initial month to establish the habit, the rest of the year took care of itself. I remember going to a seminar that year and getting home well after midnight. I had a cold and was really tired, yet I still went out running at 2am in the rain. Some people might call that foolish, but I was so determined to reach my goal that I wasn’t going to let fatigue or illness stop me. I succeeded and kept it up for the whole year without ever missing a day. In fact, I kept going for a few more weeks into 1998 before I finally opted to stop, which was a tough decision. I wanted to do this for one year, knowing it would become a powerful reference experience, and it certainly became such.

4) More diet stuff…. After being vegan for a number of years, I opted to try other variations of the vegan diet. I did 30-day trials both with the macrobiotic diet and with the raw foods diet. Those were interesting and gave me new insights, but I decided not to continue with either of them. I felt no different eating macrobiotically than I did otherwise. And in the case of the raw diet, while I did notice a significant energy boost, I found the diet too labor intensive — I was spending a lot of time preparing meals and shopping frequently. Sure you can just eat raw fruits and veggies, but to make interesting raw meals, there can be a lot of labor involved. If I had my own chef, I’d probably follow the raw diet though because I think the benefits would be worth it. I did a second trial of the raw diet for 45 days, but again my conclusion was the same. If I was ever diagnosed with a serious disease like cancer, I’d immediately switch to an all raw, living foods diet, since I believe it to be the absolute best diet for optimal health. I’ve never felt more energetic in my life than when I ate a raw diet. But I had a hard time making it practical for me. Even so, I managed to integrate some new macrobiotic foods and raw foods into my diet after these trials. There are two all-raw restaurants here in Vegas, and I’ve enjoyed eating at them because then someone else does all the labor. So these 30-day trials were still successful in that they produced new insights, although in both cases I intentionally declined to continue with the new habit. One of the reasons a full 30-day trial is so important with new diets is that the first week or two will often be spent detoxing and overcoming cravings, so it isn’t until the third or fourth week that you begin to get a clear picture. I feel that if you haven’t tried a diet for at least 30 days, you simply don’t understand it. Every diet feels different on the inside than it appears from the outside.

This 30-day method seems to work best for daily habits. I’ve had no luck using it when trying to start a habit that only occurs 3-4 days per week. However, it can work well if you apply it daily for the first 30 days and then cut back thereafter. This is what I’d do when starting a new exercise program, for example. Daily habits are much easier to establish.

Here are some other ideas for applying 30-day trials:

• Give up TV. Tape all your favorite shows and save them until the end of the trial. My whole family did this once, and it was very enlightening.
• Give up online forums, especially if you feel you’re becoming forum addicted. This will help break the addiction and give you a clearer sense of how participation actually benefits you (if at all). You can always catch up at the end of 30 days.
• Shower/bathe/shave every day. I know YOU don’t need this one, so please pass it along to someone who does.
• Meet someone new every day. Start up a conversation with a stranger.
• Go out every evening. Go somewhere different each time, and do something fun — this will be a memorable month.
• Spend 30 minutes cleaning up and organizing your home or office every day. That’s 15 hours total.
• List something new to sell on ebay every day. Purge some of that clutter.
• Ask someone new out on a date every day. Unless your success rate is below 3%, you’ll get at least one new date, maybe even meet your future spouse.
• If you’re already in a relationship, give your partner a massage every day. Or offer to alternate who gives the massage each day, so that’s 15 massages each.
• Give up cigarettes, soda, junk food, coffee, or other unhealthy addictions.
• Become an early riser.
• Write in your journal every day.
• Call a different family member, friend, or business contact every day.
• Make 25 sales calls every day to solicit new business. Professional speaker Mike Ferry did this five days a week for two years, even on days when he was giving seminars. He credits this habit with helping build his business to over $10 million in annual sales. If you make 1300 sales calls a year, you’re going to get some decent business no matter how bad your sales skills are. You can generalize this habit to any kind of marketing work, like building new links to your web site.
• Write a new blog entry every day.
• Read for an hour a day on a subject that interests you.
• Meditate every day.
• Learn a new vocabulary word every day.
• Go for a long walk every day.

Again, don’t think that you need to continue any of these habits beyond 30 days. Think of the benefits you’ll gain from those 30 days alone. You can re-assess after the trial period. You’re certain to grow just from the experience, even if it’s temporary.

The power of this approach lies in its simplicity. Even though doing a certain activity every single day may be less efficient than following a more complicated schedule — weight training is a good example because adequate rest is a key component — you’ll often be more likely to stick with the daily habit. When you commit to doing something every single day without exception, you can’t rationalize or justify missing a day, nor can you promise to make it up later by reshuffling your schedule.

Give trials a try. If you’re ready to commit to one right now, please feel free to post a comment and share your goal for the next 30 days.