Set yourself up for success: One of the best things you can do to set yourself up for success is to develop a daily gratitude practice. In order to get the results you want in life, you can't leave your mood to chance. You have to proactively put yourself in a positive state that sets you up to take the daily actions that will help create the life you want. We all have good days and bad days. In order to improve your life, you have to make sure that the good days outnumber the bad days. By taking time each day to be grateful for all the good things in your life, you set yourself up to receive more.
Gratitude Journal: It can be as simple as keeping a gratitude journal. Every morning just take a few minutes to write down things you are grateful for. Think about the people, experiences, things in your life you are grateful for. Take this time helps you keep your life in perspective and put you in a good mood to take positive action to improve your life.
Thank you notes: A really powerful practice is to let others know that you are grateful for them. You might take a few minutes to thank someone in your life for something they have done for you. This will help elevate your mood and the person you are thanking. This is such a simple thing that few people take the time to do.
Dream Day: Take some time to think about your ideal day. What time do you wake up? What do you do throughout the day? Where are you? Who are you spending time with? Think about this day in as much detail as possible. This is an incredibly powerful exercise because each day you have a chance to practice living your dream day. Some days will be better than others, but by getting clear and intentional about how you want to spend your days, you are able to have more good days and build your dream life one day at a time.
Something to guide you: The vision you create for yourself is just a guide. It's there to help you find and stay on the path to create the life you want to create. You may never create the vision you have exactly, but the more clear you are on it, the closer you can get to creating the life you want. It's like a North Star, you may never reach it, but it's there to help guide you along the way.
The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod is a great book to check out if you want to work on your daily routine. I think it's critical to make the most of each day and the only way to do that is to master your daily routine. It's important to wake up with a plan. It's important to spend some time thinking about the vision you have for your life and to remind yourself why it matters. It's important nourish your mind, body and spirit each day so that you are in the right frame of mind to tackle the big plans to create your vision.
The best part is that you get to decide what your daily routing looks like. When you start by filling your cup, getting clear on your why and working on your most important tasks, you can make meaningful progress on creating the life you want.
Results start with a vision that formulates into ideas, the vision can only become realized through action. It's important to realize that the initial actions often don't create the intended vision. We need the feedback of failure of course correct. The mistakes inform our next action to get closer to our intended result. The only way to truly fail is to give up or take no action.