Habits To Help You Prosper

It doesn't matter if you are a student, or trying to build a career or even unemployed, your habits either help you to achieve and succeed in your goals or it holds you back from it. So if you want to prosper, there are a few good habits you can take on. Focus on them and slowly watch your life turn for the better.

1. NETWORK

Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business. – Sallie Krawcheck

2. DREAM BIG

Dream it. Believe it. Achieve it.

3. PLAN AHEAD

Planning ahead will give you more control of your day-to-day life and when you talk about money, planning ahead will give you the sense of security knowing you will be ready if something inevitable happens in your life.

4. GET UP EARLY

Waking up early improves your concentration and helps you focus on goals and tasks without being interrupted. It also enhances your productivity.

5. STAY FOCUSED

To enhance focus; minimize multitasking, devote specific hours to tasks, meditate. You could also establish a to-do list and never forget to take breaks. Most importantly, try and keep work at work.

6. INVEST IN YOURSELF

Nothing is more important than investing in you. Start by investing in building your confidence and taking care of your health. Get rid of toxic friends and choose to be happy.

7. TAKE CALCULATED RISKS

As in everything in life, you have to be willing to take risks. Trust your gut. However, many people confuse that with fear. However not all risks are equal and thus why you sometimes have to take time to make careful decisions.

8. LIVE ON LESS THAN YOU MAKE

If you do not live on less than you earn, it's certain you will never get ahead. So in order to do so, you need to look into your financial habits and make a budget. Then find places to cut back on expenses. This is definitely a great way to reduce money worries as well as allows you to save for your future.

Habits that Drain Your Energy

Habits, good and bad, make us who we are as a person. Thus, we must always be aware of our habits, especially our bad habits and make an effort to take steps to change them.

Here are some bad habits that are common and hurtful to any individual over time:

1. UNHEALTHY EATING HABITS

This could mean either over eating or even under eating and even not having enough healthy foods our body needs each day, or consuming too much foods that are not necessarily good for us. This unhealthy eatings habits may affect our energy and nutrition intake and over time, it can contribute in the development or illnesses and other health issues.

2. TRYING TO PLEASE OTHERS

Pleasing people aren’t at all a bad thing but sometimes your need to please others can turn into a problem since it starts getting more difficult to look out for yourself since you have no boundaries. Believe it or not but trying to please everyone does not always work and in fact proves that you love yourself less. You start ending up with less confidence, and you become more resentful and hate the things you used to like. Most of all, you fail to please the only person that matters the most and that is yourself. So you have to cure yourself of this habit to please and gently tell one person no.

3. DEHYDRATION

This could be considered the most common bad habit for most of us. We get so caught up with our busy lifestyle, we forget to hydrate. Did you know that even a mild dehydration can mess with your energy and your ability to think clearly? Dehydration also causes bad breath, dry skin and even headaches. So keep in mind that on average, the daily intake of water for most women would be about 2.7 liters while most men would be 3.7 liters. The totals include water that comes from foods and even drinks like tea or fruit juice.

4. CLUTTER AND DISORGANIZATION

Clutter can play a huge role in how we feel about our home, office and even ourselves. Whether we would like to admit it or not, clutter does lead to stress. The biggest reason for stress from clutter is the fact that it stops us from finding what we need quickly. However, unlike other stress such like our work or relationship problems, clutter is the easiest bad habit to tackle.

5. TAKING THINGS PERSONALLY

Taking things personally will only allow individuals more power over us. It means you are allowing that person to make you think about what you actually believe in. So instead of believing in yourself and knowing who you really are as an individual, you're allowing someone else to tell you who you are. By taking things personally, you are allowing yourself to be tied to someone else.

6. COMPLAINING REGULARLY

Venting sessions are not all bad but one should never make a habit out of it. This constant complaining can start to affect your health and increase your stress level or raise your anxiety and even push your loved ones away. Constant complaining can increase your negative feelings, make you even more stressed and physically wear you down. You have to realize that it does not actually achieve anything. So start to fix this bad habit by being more positive which will reduce harmful health effects of stress.

7. CAFFEINE

There are good and bad benefits to drinking coffee. And too much of anything is always bad. So let’s focus on the bad and maybe it would make you either stop the caffeine intake or at least cut back. Coffee can give you wrinkles; it can stain your teeth and cause acidity. Now, no one wants stained teeth, do we?

10 Ways To Improve Body Image

Having a negative thought on your body image can affect you in lots of ways which includes how you accept your relationship or how you perform in your career and it may even affect your overall quality of life. Very often you would think specific areas such like your nose or legs have a physical defect. However, it is only a mental representation of what you create. Through it all, we forget that our body has a utility and it gets us to places and instead we are still living in a world where physical looks seems more important.

How do we put our body image back into perspective?

Here are 10 ways to improve your body image.

1.       Appreciate every single thing that your body does for you

2.       Look at yourself as a whole person and never focus on any specific part of your body

3.       Make it a point to point out one thing you like about yourself, every single day

4.       Know that what we see on social media or television has been altered to perfection

5.       No one is perfect so love the things that make you different

6.       Love yourself just the way you are

7.       Surround yourself with supportive people who make you feel good about yourself

8.       Tell yourself that beauty is not skin deep. Beauty is a state of mind and not a state of your body.

9.       Do something that allows your body to know you appreciate it

10.    Focus on your accomplishments as a person and not what you look like