Altering Habits to Better Your Life

Habits, oh those foul habits. Habits are acquired from training, influences, observance, and practice. We acquire a lot of habits throughout our life, some are good and others are foul. Good habits we may keep, but if one wants to better their life the foul habits have to take a hike. Eliminating bad habits however isn't simple, especially if a dependency is involved. For this reason, we may learn how to change our habits.

Individuals wander through life making excuses. Anytime an individual sees something complicated, they'll frequently make excuses why they can't deal with the issue. This is a rough-cut problem in the world, which we’ve all heard 1000000000000s times. If you're out to better your life, you need to state, “This is something that blocks me from accomplishment and I've got the might to change it.

The first key to success is to quit making excuses. You are able to commit by choosing a fresh habit.

Today I'm going to quit judging other people and myself. This is a common error individuals make in the world. They spend time labelling other people and themselves. This gets them nowhere but in a world of chaos.

Do you think negatively? I can’t alter this. My life is full of bunk; I can’t swing it any longer. Why me? If you spend your life believing negative and stating negative connotations, attempt to change your ways today. For example, state, I may change something and I'm going to. Rather than stating life is full of bunk, accept it as truth yet move forward to make your life better.

Once you begin to make changes to improve your life, begin small. Rather than jumping the gun, take little steps to success. Too many times individuals try to change overnight. This only leads to frustration.

When you're working to alter your life and habits make certain you seek support and feedback. You don't have to walk the road to success alone. Feedback is discovered at your library, the Net, at colleges, etc. Ask somebody you trust to support you and provide you feedback when required as well.

Writing Compelling Eye Pulling Titles

Your title is the single most important sentence of your entire article. Its job is to get people to open the article and read the rest. How can you write titles that other people want to open? Here are a few important things to think about.

The first step to a great title is a great topic. The title's job is simply to convey the topic as interestingly as possible. In order for the title to be effective, the topic itself still has to be interesting to the reader.

Know what your reader wants. Know what they want to hear and what they want to read about. Choose your topics accordingly.

Having a great topic and a great article makes writing a great title much easier.

Use Power Words

Use words that titillate the senses, that create emotions and that bring visualizations to mind. In other words, use powerful words rather than descriptive words.

One carefully chosen, well-placed power word can change the vibe of the whole title.

For example, instead of: Tips for Making a Speech

Try: High Impact Tips for Making a Dynamic Speech

These two power words - "High Impact" and "Dynamic" - completely change how the whole title is perceived.

Use Numbers & Specifics

Specifics and numbers tend to do very well. Use specific locations, number of tips, names of people, etc.

Again, taking our previous example:

Instead of: High Impact Tips for Making a Dynamic Speech

Try: 31 High Impact Tips for Making a Dynamic Speech

Or: Tips for Making a Dynamic Speech by a Former Champion Speaker

The difference between the first sentence and the latter two sentences are specifics. Specifics give titles more weight and makes them seem more real and powerful.

Get Inspiration from Other Writers

If you ever find yourself having trouble writing a title, just Google your main keyword.

How are other writers writing their titles? What kind of topics are they targeting?

What techniques are they using to write their titles? Are they using specifics? News? Names? Power words?

Don't copy a title. It'll hurt your search engine rankings and can be taken as plagiarism. That said, there's absolutely nothing wrong with using other people's titles as inspiration.

Vary Things Up

Finally, change your tactics around. Don't use a power word in every title. Don't use specific numbers in every title.

You'll want your article titles to be different from one another to avoid them sounding too similar and turning readers off.

These are a few proven ways to increase your click-through rates and open rates. Start with a great topic. Sprinkle in a power word or two to make your title come alive. Use a specific or two, if applicable. Get inspiration if you get stuck. And finally, remember to always vary things up.

Mindset and Goals: How to Plan and Achieve Your Goals

So now you have the goal, you need the plan. To do this, look at where you are now and then look at all the things you would need to build the life you are picturing. For instance, you might find that you need a certain amount of money to make your dream of traveling happen.



In that case, you need to look at the options available to you to make that money. Or maybe you want to achieve a certain thing in your career and you realize that in order to get there, there is a certain amount of experience you need to acquire first. How can you acquire said experience?

There are many similar examples of how you might go after a particular goal but the thing to remember in every case is that you need to focus on small steps that are just ahead of you. That might mean the next small promotion. It might mean a small upgrade to your home. It might mean developing any form of small income.

With that in mind, you’re then going to break these smaller goals down even further. Now the objective is to look at the smallest possible steps that you need to take on a daily or weekly basis to get there. So if your goal is to have a body like Brad Pitt, then that smallest daily step is simple: diet and exercise.

Look around, find a training plan and a diet that works for you, and then commit to sticking to that every single day without one flaw. Likewise, if your goal is to be a top novelist, then your daily goal is going to be to write X number of words per day. Make the goals easy to accomplish but ensure that they take positive – if small – steps in the right direction.

This is the key target. This is the primary directive. You’re going to imagine that vision and let it motivate you when the times get rough. But you are going to forget anything other than the daily target. Right now, that is all that matters.

To help you visualize this, here is what it basically boils down to:

Dream/Vision (Overarching Goal) > Plan (Stepping Stone Goals) > Daily Target (Daily/Weekly Goal)

Changing Your Thinking

So why is this change in thinking so important? The answer is that focusing too much on a distant goal will make you too detached from what it is you’re trying to accomplish. For instance, if your only ‘goal’ is to become a novelist, then you lack any real structure or any plan.

This is going to make it very hard for you to stick too. It’s all too easy for you to get lazy, to take shortcuts or even forget all about it. Even if your goal is more specific and time-sensitive – such as losing 15kg in 6 months – you are still too detached from it. Why? Because a) you might still think it’s okay to skip a workout or to cheat on your diet one day and then ‘put off’ the goal.

By the time you have 1 month left and you’re still no lighter, you might give up. Or what if you stick to the plan as much as possible but you still don’t see the results you want? How disheartening is that? So instead, the goal is the target. You focus just on the one day.

You either succeed or fail. It is entirely down to you. It’s entirely your responsibility and no excuses cut it. But if you keep focusing on the daily targets, you will find that the overarching vision takes care of itself. It’s like building a house brick by brick, or taking a journey step-by-step.

Some Final Tips

Just to help you stick to your path, consider a few pointers.

One: keep your daily targets easy to accomplish. Introduce them slowly. Don’t be in a rush to get anywhere. It is better that you just start to enjoy exercise than letting yourself get burned out or put off.

Two: keep track of the days you succeed and lose. Jerry Seinfeld uses this technique and calls it ‘the chain’.

Every day he does what he sets out to do, he puts a big cross on his calendar. This is rewarding and addictive in and of itself and his desire to ‘not break the chain’ is reportedly enough to keep him from giving up.

Three: use the most practical and proven methods to get where you want to be. You must believe in your plan.

Why are we willing to go into work every day but not work on a plan we enjoy and that could make us richer? Simple: because when we go to work we definitely get paid. You need a similar plan. Something that will help you to definitely get where you need to be  at least in your mind.

And finally: don’t get disheartened if you miss one day. The aim is not to of course. But if you slip up, go easy on yourself and just jump straight back on that horse!