Changing Your Daily Habits Can Turn Your Life Around
By: Carlos Jeronimo
Tags: Self Improvement, Life Lessons, Life, Success, Habits

Have you ever ask yourself these questions?…

Why am I living this way?

Why do I always have to pick up the crumbs of life?

Why do I always have to be at a disadvantage?

I have to do the hardest work, and people take advantage of me.

Those are confusing questions that circulate in our minds, making us feel the victim of society in which we live.

But, in reality, it's necessary to scan our lives and meditate beyond what our eyes can see. Look at the photograph of your life with a broad perspective, in the panoramic mode.

Focusing the mental lens from the center outward.

Discover, what are we doing daily that is affecting our whole life?

The habits we practice daily have formed our pattern of life in general.

How do we live? How do I treat myself and others?

Returning to the panoramic view

From my personal point of view…

The way I lived before, have formed what I am now.

Before, I lived disorderly. Just waiting for what life gave me.

I never planned what I would do during the day, much less what I would do in a week.

That led me to a disorganized life stile and slowly, disorganization affected my whole life.

I stumbled upon my own shoes when I got up in the morning. Most of the food in my refrigerator was decomposing. My kitchen smelled like rotten rat. My clothes were always dirty in a corner of my room, screaming to be washed.

The chaos around me showed all my mental disorder. I forgot things. I could never find what I needed. And I was always late everywhere.

Then, to numb my depressing state, I was falling into the drinking habit.

“With a couple of cold ones in my head, I forgot all my sorrows and distress.” (I never thought that I could translate it without losing my Spanish grace.)

But, we’ll leave that topic for another occasion.

Now, returning to this day

How could I not expect to be in the condition that I was if I had never practiced discipline?

I needed to sleep well, at least 7 to 8 hours to get up rested and full of energy.

Address the hygiene of my body and around my life. Organize my room regularly and at least every 3 months a general cleaning.

Plan what I would do during the day to live with purpose.

Focus on learning and dominate skills that would open doors of opportunities so I don’t have to work for a minimum wage.

The time I wasted playing video games, I could have taken advantage of by learning new skills and dominating them completely.

All that time well invested would have been converted into knowledge to bring me closer to achieving great goals in life.

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But, it’s never to late to start again

By observing the photograph of our life, we can predict the future that awaits us.

The change of direction of our lives begins from the inside out. Putting goals and work first before fun. Pleasures and amusements are only temporary.

Those who are successful through putting work first live by the motto, “life is easy when you live it the hard way and hard when you live it the easy way.” Life is hard for most of us because we focus on what’s easy instead of what gets us the best results. — Marc Summers’

Continuing with the way we live… By being organized and clean in our apartments, we cleanse our minds of all patterns of disorganized thinking.

And as the saying goes, “Healthy mind in a healthy body.”

Our personal hygiene will give us a more confident and influential personality. Nothing will be able to stop us.

And an agenda well organized daily with goals will take you forward to achieving great accomplishments.

We’ll live a more rewarding life with more fun and money. And the confortable life we want will take care of itself.

Sacrificing today’s fun to study and grow will make us master our skills, opening more doors of opportunity to succeed.

In the long-term, repeating the key steps over and over again will redirect our life towards a better destination.

Everything takes time, sacrifice and effort that will be rewarded in the end. An organized person becomes very productive and influential.

Never forget that humility will keep your steps from falling into egocentrism and arrogance.

Do not waste this short lifetime stuck in unproductive mentalities. Life will always have its ups and downs.

Get on the sight of opportunities by applying productive habits in your life.

“What you sow today, you will harvest tomorrow.”

If you grow good habits today, you will reap a successful life tomorrow.

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