Create a Fantastic Lifestyle by Busting the Routine

“The less routine the more life.” – Amos Bronson Alcott

“I travel a lot and I hate having my life interrupted by routine!” – Caskie Stinnett

When should you put a wrench in your routine – the routine that ultimately creates your lifestyle? The answer is simple – all the time and more than once. Every person’s routine is a bit different, but the importance of stepping outside our cycle of common activities is important to personal growth and intellectual development.

You essentially have two types of routine oriented lifestyles – you may epitomize one or you may fall somewhere in between. Read the Rest of This Article »

How To Get Out Of The House In The Morning: 8 Tips

Wake Up Your Mornings
We would all like to prolong the time in our beds and linger longer in the shower, but at a certain point, you have to get out the door and on your way to get that paycheck. Here are some ways to make it a little less painful to start another day. I might not convert you to a morning person, but it will make it more tolerable.

Be Prepared
These tips all require you to get ready the night before. Being organized and planning ahead will reduce your stress immensely. You will find you can just roll through the process will no hassle as long as you took action ahead of time. So yes, no matter how tired you are, take about a half an hour to prepare for tomorrow before you fall into bed. Read the Rest of This Article »

8 Reasons We Don’t Do Things We Should and How To Break the Mould

Our lives are full of things we “should” do but for a range of reasons we don’t do them. Whatever it is – exercise, healthy eating, saving money – most of the time we choose to take the easier road, the road well traveled.

While I’m certainly not immune to this, there are plenty of things I don’t do that I know I should, I feel that understand the why is the first step to making real progress.

1. Being Comfortable (and Lack of a Burning Desire)

It all starts with how we feel about our life. How we feel greatly affects our motivations. Most people are in some form of comfort, but it’s a negative comfort. It’s a comfort where you’re not making progress towards your dreams but you’re not in that much pain either.

Don’t be in this space.

I’ve been comfortable. I live in a great area, there’s food on the table and I have shelter, and it’s this very reason that a bunch of my income dried up over the past couple of years. I’d been making great progress, which was motivating but then de-motivational forces (mainly school) and my own lethargy brought me into a false form of comfort. And now I have to work my way back to where I was.

The best motivators are pain and progress. Read the Rest of This Article »