Every year we make resolutions. I believe resolutions should be sustainable and we must be consistent to achieve our resolutions. Nothing wrong in having resolutions but there is an issue if they did not change from last year . So set a realistic resolution that you will not give up no matter what.
When we decide to do it “no matter what happens” that is called Commitment. Commitment makes the real difference between Achievers and Quitters.
I would like to suggest 5 qualities that will improve our lives for sure. I recommend them because I follow them myself and experiencing the benefits.
Be Fit and Eat Healthy
This is the first and foremost trait recommended by top achievers in any field like founders of biggest companies, elite athletes in sports and games or any other high performers. Apart from getting physical benefits like stronger muscles and bones, health benefits, healthy heart etc., It also relieves stress, improves memory, helps you sleep better, and boosts overall mood. It prevents mental disorders like depression, anxiety, ADHD, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia at later stages of life. Believe it or not we can consider early morning exercise as a natural brain boosting drug that gives you a high with no side effects. So get addicted to physical fitness , fitness addiction is good for you and it is not illegal .
I assume you all of you know the significance of eating a healthy diet. Just by eating the wrong food, we could negate the benefits we derive out of exercise. The food we eat has a lasting and cumulative effect on our body and mind which could be positive or negative based on the choices we make. So follow a healthy and recommended diet for your body type to realize your full potential.
Finally have a restful and deep sleep. A healthy diet and exercise regime will definitely help but our body needs enough sleep in order to do the housekeeping like repairing damaged tissues and cells, flush out accumulated metabolites/toxins due to various activities. Majority of our body tissue growth and recovery takes place during sleep.
Be Consistent
Consistency is the key factor that would make or break anything we try to achieve. Small insignificant activities done regularly can have a compound effect on our endeavors and this requires patience. It is about being unswerving with our discipline and self-control to make progress steadily. So be consistent in life, build a daily routine and stick with it to enjoy the benefits later. Try to improve daily physically or mentally or emotionally or spiritually.
Be Grateful
Be grateful every day and to everything we have in our lives. Be thankful to our health, family and friends we have, food we have, opportunities we have and more so for being alive in this moment. Gratefulness will make us respect and value what we already have in our lives. By this we never take anything for granted. Feeling grateful would make us see outside of ourselves and allow us to make difference or add value to other’s lives. No wonder all high achievers historically speak about the power of gratitude.
Make No Excuses
If we have to move steadily towards reaching our resolutions, we need to stop making excuses and start grabbing opportunities. I know that we all have some problems, challenges and limitations in our personal lives. We need to develop a mindset to do our best with what we have and where we are. We need to avoid saying no time, too tired, very hard, no resources, no help, no energy etc., We tend to give these excuses if we don’t have our priorities right and not passionate enough. For example, if we realize that health and fitness is our value to achieve anything in life, we will make time to exercise, eat right and sleep well on time.
Do uncomfortable stuff
Start to do something with the passion in you. Try to spend little extra time on developing skills, read or learn stuff that would take you closer towards realizing your passion. Sometimes it is unlearning a lot of stuff by keeping our ego aside. Sometimes it is trial and error. It is like going into a space which puts you through difficulty and pain and going through it again and again. This creates new circuitry and neurons in the brain which develops the right attitude naturally.
How to inculcate these attributes in us
- One way to develop this mindset is waking up early, trying out different forms of exercises and fitness routines in gym, challenging ourselves physically and testing our potential, eating healthy food and sticking to diet resisting temptations, parallelly meeting the needs personally and professionally, dedicating time for proper sleep.
- Dealing with pain and discomfort physically and growing through it would lead to greater mental stamina as well.
- These abilities and attitude attained while achieving physical fitness would extend to other areas of our lives and ultimately serve us to manage the situations efficiently.
- With physical fitness and strength, there’s always a plateau we will hit. So we need to keep improving and progressively overload so that our body learns and adapts to new movements and gains better strength.
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