It is a New Year! Welcome to 2022! It is a New Opportunity!

Last Week we talked about Intentionally creating Declarations for this new year and this week we are going to intentionally create Positive Routines!

In our lives, we create routines or habits all the time. Whether you are doing it intentionally or not, you are creating the routines or habits that you fall back on and that will determine your success or failure to be successful. 

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 your positive routines or negative routines?” I want to share with you, “How Positive Routines Make You More Successful.” 

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/carpool 
• Social media/email/news 
• Chores – dishes/laundry/etc. 
• Getting kids off to school – carpool/bus stop/etc. 
• After work routine/dinner routine
• Bedtime Routine

Let’s just take a minute for this to sink in. I want you to think about your hero or perhaps a guru that you admire. Do they follow strict routines? YES! 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. It raises your self-confidence and increases your ability to believe in yourself and trust yourself on a higher level. You can create incredible things as you put routines into place and intentionally take yourself to the next level. You become unstoppable and forge forward in a new way! 

In business when we have routines in place and follow them, we see: 

• Better management 
• Clear direction 
• Higher levels of accountability 
• Increase business success 
• Raised profits and revenue 
• Retain customers better  
• Increase employee retention 
• People are naturally drawn to the business 
• Higher levels of organization 
• Improve time management 
• Increase teamwork and relationships 
• Incredible productivity  
• High levels of trust 
• Overall happiness 
• Reduce stress and anxiety
• Teamwork
• More Success 

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.  

The ONLY way this will happen consistently is if it is SCHEDULED and becomes a habit. Your Positive Routines need to become scheduled intentional habits. 

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 highly successful person, I promise you that you will find ways to whittle down and refine a few areas that you could improve. 

Here is a simple hint to have increased success in adding to your routine. If you are adding something new, add it to something that you already have in place. When you already are doing a routine and are consistent with it, adding a new component becomes quite easy because you are already used to doing the other components and will easily add a new step into that routine. 

Watch my episode today and get a few tips on how to dial this in and “Create Positive Routines to Make You More Successful.” Have fun in creating your specific and intentional routines to increase your success! 

Thanks for joining me!