Do you have specific daily routines in your life? The answer is YES you do! Like it or not, we create routines that we fall into out of habit. The question is “Are yours positive routines or negative
routines?”
The truth is that we fall into routines by default if we are not intentionally creating them. All of us have routines. Our days are filled with them continually. Perhaps you could be thinking of these as habits. Yes they are habits which become our routines! Here are just a few:
- Morning routine/wake up/meditation
- Exercise or lack of exercise
- Breakfast/coffee/quick bite
- Getting ready/shower, hair, makeup or shaving
- Going to work/drive/commute/car pool
- Social media/email/news
- Chores/dishes/laundry/etc.
- Getting kids off to school/car pool/bus stop/etc.
This is just a few and all before 8:00 am for the most part! This begs for me to ask you “Are you happy with your success with the routines that you have created?”
All of us have the ability to “Create Positive Routines to be Successful.” The biggest key to this is to be very intentional about what you want to create.
The most successful people have routines that they follow like clockwork. WHY? Because when you create it in a way to get your time management aligned with your successful plan and have a goal and intention backing it as to why it works better and more efficiently, you are more successful and empowered to complete it faster and stronger.
In business when we have management that puts routines into place they have more success, they
retain customers better they raise more revenue and they retain more employees. People are naturally drawn to routines. They love organization balanced with time management and topped off with productivity. People thrive in an atmosphere with positive routines and they know the expectation. When we intentionally place these kinds of routines into both our personal life and our business life, we have less stress, less anxiety and increased happiness! Who does not love that?
It has been proven repeatedly that structure and routines with young children help them to achieve better, to learn more and easier, to be responsible earlier, to be able to problem solve and to think cognitively earlier, to make friends easier, to have higher self-esteem and confidence as well as be happier! Isn’t this reason enough to want to take a good look into what routines we have in place in our daily life and INTENTIONALLY create positive ones to replace those that have haphazardly been placed there?
It’s true. Success is found in your daily routine. What you are doing on a regular basis becomes habit or routine. We will continue a behavior that we know and will keep it in our routine until we intentionally decide to do it differently. Think about it, how many of us fall into a category of doing
things like our parents used to do them. Good or bad, we fall into old habits or behaviors and left unchanged they become our own routine or habit. The best thing you could do for yourself is to sit down and make out a daily list of everything you do on a consistent basis. Evaluate what are positive routines and what are perhaps negative routines. Then create a plan of what gets to change! If you want to see immediate success, put a new plan in place and follow it religiously and you will see dramatic results! Even if you are a very successful person, I promise you that you will find ways to whittle down and refine a few areas that you could improve.
Watch my episode today and get a few tips on how to really dial this in and how you can “Create Positive Routines to be Successful.” Thanks for joining me!