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What Helps Productivity In Life Is Simply Just Starting

What To Expect?

In today’s article, what helps productivity in life is simply just starting is an article that will change your life. We all deep down want to be productive and do well. Then the magnitude of the task or the feeling of doing it isn’t quite aligned to get started. We’ve all been there but the simple technique of just starting will change all that.

What Happens If You Don’t Just Start Something

If you don’t start a task that is challenging straight away. Procrastination will start to build up and become a habit every time something challenging comes your way.

For the mind, you will always feel regret alongside a host of other emotions because you didn’t just start the task. Not starting straight away will lead to a build-up of work and a to-do list that will become more overwhelming for your mind to cope with.

How stressful is it when you have to hand in an assignment and you start the night before to complete it? It’s super stressful and you always say to yourself why didn’t you just start this earlier.

The habit of putting things off has to stop because it’s doing damage to your productivity, standards of work and mental wellbeing. The major difference is that when you’re competing in life. The person who gets started first will have a better chance at succeeding than someone who doesn’t. This then can become a compound factor where the choices you make today can affect your tomorrow and future self.

The Benefits Of Just Starting

What Helps Productivity In Life Is Simply Just Starting
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Just starting can lead to many benefits within your life.

If you apply just starting, over time you will see the true benefits of this strategy to your productivity and overall level of success in what you do.

How many times do people put off going to the gym or following their passion? From my experience, I hear it a lot. Compare this to someone who doesn’t make excuses or procrastinates enjoy major success. The hardest part is always getting started. But I hear it time and time again that after someone does start they always carry on and are glad they just started it. The unknown can be scary and that’s what can hold people off sometimes. But I’d rather live a life knowing it wasn’t the right thing rather than regretting I didn’t just start.

The Effect Just Starting Has On Productivity

Productivity can be improved just by starting straight away and can drastically improve your output. This leads to life-changing scenarios and mental health will be improved because you will be progressing as a person. What damages mental health is procrastination, regret and not following through.

Getting started straight away also allows you to improve your preparation too. By ticking off all your to-do lists and finishing all your objectives allows more free time to do the things you want with a mentally healthy mind.

There is a unique feeling you get when you just start something to know it’s ahead of schedule and don’t have to think about it again. That’s why just getting started gives you that great feeling of life.

How Can You Apply Just Starting Technique Today

1. Make It Easy

No one wants to start anything difficult, break it down and trick the brain by making it easy to start.

2. Set Alarms

You can have alarms set for when you want to start something. When your planning you always feel good to attack a goal. It’s only when you have to do it, emotions can change. So by setting an alarm, it’s a signal to the brain that you have to do it.

3. Fear Of Loss The Mind

When it comes to the time you have to start but your brain is trying to drag you to procrastination. You envision a future if you don’t do it. Scaring yourself of the future you will have if you don’t start is an effective way to move your mind into action. When humans backs are against the wall they usually act and succeed. Using this fear of loss strategy can work wonders in the short term.

4. Let The Feeling Of Not Doing It Flow

Trying to stop a feeling only allows the feeling to grow. But letting It flow through you and be ok with it helps it not control your future choices. When you do experience the feeling of procrastination just say NO to it and say your why to yourself. This helps create no struggle with your mind but redirects to what you really want to do.

5. Having Your WHY In Front Of You

Whether it’s posted notes of inspiration, your family or your vision board. Knowing what your WHY is can transform you into action. When we fully understand our WHY it becomes a non-negotiable feeling of things that have to get done.

6. Don’t Think, Just Do

When the brain is about to put negative ideas into your mind. Shut it down straight away and let that be the first sign of just starting. This trick allows you to know when it’s time to get to work.

Over To You

I hope you enjoyed today article, what helps productivity in life is simply just starting.

Just starting is so beneficial to the productivity and the future you vision for yourself. So many people waste their talents because they didn’t just start.

With the tips of how to get started, I have written above. I hope this gives you a clear strategy of how to implement it for yourself. But the choice always comes from within you. Only you can decide when to start. Once you know it’s your choice, you must act on it with everything in your life.

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Hi, I'm Adam
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I’ve spent over 10 years coaching and mentoring people within sport and business. I have many life skills that I have developed and I want to pass these skills on so people can find their best self. I believe it all starts in the mind and I write about valuable tools and strategies to help people grow in this area.

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Future Wellbeing

5 Amazing Tips On How To Live A Happier Life Today

What To Expect?

In today’s article, 5 amazing tips on how to live a happier life today I will discuss the importance of why happiness is crucial to living a great life. No one in their right mind wants to be unhappy but I do understand the different challenges we all go through that can make happiness seem far away.

So I have come up with my own 5 favourite tips that have helped me become happier when times are difficult in my life. I hope my tips help you to live a happier life today.

Why Your Happiness Is Important?

5 Amazing Tips On How To Live A Happier Life Today
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Happiness is something we all want. Some people are definitely happier than others. The question is why you should ask.

There you will find the habits they act upon every day that allows them to live that happy life. I used to believe when I was younger that happiness comes from great wealth, a supercar or being famous.

As I’ve grown older I know this is not to be the case. Of course, these things are great and can give you short term happiness but not the deep happiness we are discussing today. The very fact we see celebrities that have everything but lead unhappy lives has been a testament to that.

Internal vs External Happiness

We need to understand that happiness is not an external materialistic feeling. It’s something internal that we all crave for. The reason why it’s important? It’s because it fosters great mental health where it reduces stress, negative thoughts and negative outcomes.

We should aspire to live a life of happiness but it has to be on our terms of what we want not what society tells us we should want. There you find the happiness you deserve.

Some of the happiest people in the world can be seen living in nature away from the modern-day world which shows that going back to nature can be a major benefit in creating an environment that also makes us happy.

So I hope the tips below can help you take that step towards your internal happiness because no one can take that away from you. That’s yours to control and once you know that then all the external stuff you come in contact with can be enjoyed even more.

5 Amazing Tips On How To Live A Happier Life Today

1. Love Yourself

What leads to a happier life is loving yourself unconditionally. Because before we even think of loving someone else we need to love ourselves and be happy with the person we are today.

Growing up I was always hard on myself nitpicking every fault as being not good enough and comparing my achievements to others who were on different paths to myself.

This leads to unhappiness and took a lot out of my mental health along the way. When I realised this is not productive I changed to loving myself for who I am and what I have achieved. It was like a dark cloud that was lifted and the sunniest day you can imagine was welcomed.

Too many of us are hard on ourselves when we don’t have to be. Try loving yourself today.

2. Always Look For The Positives

I was once told an example of how the mind works. That has always stuck with me.

I was in a room where I was told to look at everything I could see. Then I was told to close my eyes. Upon opening my eyes, I had to focus on all the red objects in the room. Then close my eyes and remember as many objects as I could. I was then told the same thing again but this time it was finding everything blue. It was amazing that both times all I could see in a room full of all different colours were the colours I was told to look for.

This was a great example of how the brain works and what it focuses on is what it delivers.

This is the same for positivity and negativity. If we are always looking out for negatives in general newspapers, faults in people or our failures then we are going to lead a very unhappy life. Whereas if we do the opposite and find good news, the best in people and what we did well at and how we can improve. We are going to live a more fulfilled and happy life.

So I challenge you today to focus on positives in yourself and others and make sure you’re self-aware of what’s coming into your mind via external sources.

3. Be Grateful For Everything You Have

Wanting more out of life. Is something every human wants. We can though, get lost in always wanting the next thing in our life. Which can be a detriment to our happiness.

The constant of wanting the next big thing is a drain and it makes us feel like failures if we can’t attain it. But when you change that mindset to gratefulness the game completely changes.

Being grateful is a well-known strategy that has been spoken about in great length but it’s still an underrated tool that many people don’t apply each day. When we are grateful for what we have today it can actually help us move forward for a better tomorrow.

The major difference is our happiness and mental health is exactly where they should be. So today sit down and forget about the future and focus on the present of today of what you do have. For me I took for granted, running tap water, a home that keeps us safe and the oxygen that keeps me alive.

We have so much to be grateful for in our life we just have to make that the launchpad that propels us to progress and overall happiness.

4. Forgive Your Past

Forgiving yourself and others are crucial for happiness. When we don’t forgive we resent and this lives within us weighing us down. The longer we leave it the weight gets heavier and heavier. That’s why we need to find it within ourselves to forgive others for what they have done to us, not for them but for ourselves.

More importantly, we should forgive ourselves for any past failure mistakes we have made. It’s not worth it holding on to the past as it only destroys our present and future.

Today to unlock your happiness. Sit down and write everything you can think of about yourself and others that you haven’t forgiven and one by one start forgiving.

Release that negative emotion, cry, shout, speak to that person. whatever you need to do. Once done happiness will flow throughout you. I did this myself and it was literally like a weight off my back.

5. Surround Yourself With Happiness

What stops anyone from being happy is the environment we surround ourselves in. We have people who bring us down or we live somewhere where we don’t feel safe. This can affect your happiness greatly.

That’s why it’s your duty to have people in your life that make you happy and lift you up. Live in a home you love and live in an area you feel safe in.

Make it your duty today to write down a list of what makes you unhappy about the external forces in your life. Then right next to it a solution to change it. Now go all in to have a life where you are surrounded by happiness.

Over To You

I hope you enjoyed today’s article, 5 amazing tips on how to live a happier life today.

I enjoyed writing this article and has given me great happiness passing this on to you.

If you feel someone in your life needs this. Please share anyway you can and pass on happiness.

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I’ve spent over 10 years coaching and mentoring people within sport and business. I have many life skills that I have developed and I want to pass these skills on so people can find their best self. I believe it all starts in the mind and I write about valuable tools and strategies to help people grow in this area.