Celebrate when you hit a milestone. Celebrate when you have a near miss of a target goal. Celebrate because it’s a random Tuesday. Have a reason or make up one. Never miss a chance to celebrate.
Anything that equals a break from the normal routine can offer you up a view of your life from a different angle.
Even with the best of intentions, we all offer a net-negative to the hard work of someone out there. You should find out who that person is, and determine if it should be your role to fix it.
The best way to ensure all your hard work to make a change in your life does not end up wasted, you must start with a definitive change of mindset from who you were before.
Making time to be alone allows you to make intentional alone time to take a tough look at yourself and your life.
At 135 episode, I am able to quickly take an idea and turning it around into an audio file waiting for release as a podcast. But it took all the work from the trials of episode #0 to the review of episode #134 to make the process of producing 135 seem so seamless and smooth.
Make time to check on allies. Whether it is random or scheduled, the best way to make sure allies remain allies is to make sure they are doing well.
If ‘do’ does not work, you can use ‘don’t’ as a ‘Plan B’
You may want to collect trophies and memorabilia to help you remember key victories and moments. But those physical things contain no magic from the even they memorialize.
You need time away from your regular routine. You need to plan your time away with as much precision and strategy as a major project at work you may be trying to get time away from.