12 Habits to Create Your Best Life
If you’re like most people, you want to live a good life. One that excites you and leaves you fulfilled.
You want to accomplish meaningful goals, enjoy life with people you love, and make a positive impact on the world.
In essence, you want to live a life you love.
If this is you, read on to learn the 12 habits that automatically help you create your best life.
1. Exercise
Exercise is essential to becoming your best self.
It immediately increases your energy, improves brain function, and fosters positive feelings by releasing endorphins.
The long-term improvements to your brain and body can’t be understated either. You’ll boost your confidence and feel good about taking care of yourself.
Lift weights and do cardio (ideally in the sun) several times per week to enjoy the benefits of exercise.
2. Learn daily
Personal growth is synonymous with well-being. You’ll:
- Increase skills
- Connect new dots
- Improve brain function
- Deepen understanding
- Become more interesting
It’s simple too: read books or take courses that teach you various subjects and skills.
There are 2 great paths:
- Dig deeper into meaningful topics -> master your skills and knowledge
- Seek and explore new topics -> learn new things
When you learn daily, you quickly level up.
3. Eat healthily
Just like exercising, eating real foods improves your energy, health, and the way you feel.
When you eat healthier, your body operates at its best.
Here are some quick, easy ways to improve your diet:
Avoid processed foods, refined sugar, and vegetable oils — these weigh you down and put you in a slump.
Eat natural food that hasn’t been altered — things like organic fruits and vegetables, real butter, and grass-fed beef.
If you have a food coma after you eat, reassess your eating habits.
4. Be of service
Helping others is a lifehack. It feels good internally and builds goodwill.
The more people you help, the more people will be drawn to you.
Don’t expect anything in return. However, your relationships and customer base will naturally improve the more you help people.
A fulfilling life starts by leaving the world a better place.
5. Try new things
You only find things you love by trying new things.
If you hike in your free time because you enjoy it, cool. But if you only do this, you could be missing out on things you enjoy more.
Maybe mountain biking has similar benefits (outside in nature) with more to offer (harder workout, more thrilling, more distance to explore).
This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do things you love. Just make sure you regularly throw in some new activities.
It expands your thinking, makes you more interesting, and gives you a bigger range of life experiences.
6. Learn new things
Similar to the above, learning new things expands your mind and ability to reach new heights.
If Kevin Durant only focused on basketball, he would have missed out on some major opportunities. Instead, he learned angel investing and created a venture capital fund that exploded his wealth and influence.
New perspectives and skills arise when you learn new things. And sometimes you find better ways to do what you’re already doing.
Don’t limit your potential. Open your world to new opportunities.
7. Believe in yourself
Confidence will take you further than any other skill.
Why? Because you know you can accomplish anything and overcome any obstacles that get in your way.
The opposite is detrimental. A lack of self-belief prevents success before you even try.
If you don’t believe in yourself, you won’t complete your goals. You’ll give up at the first sight of failure. Why try if you “know” you can’t do it?
Understand that you can do whatever you put your mind to. If you need to figure it out, you can.
8. Measure progress
You can’t manage what you can’t measure.
Quantify the effort and results for all repeatable tasks:
Improve your efficiency and effectiveness by knowing where the holes are.
The best way to solve a problem is to know exactly what it is.
9. Schedule your time
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
As Tony Robbins says, “You can’t hit a target if you don’t know what it is.”
Scheduling your time is similar-you’re deciding how to use your time with a clear and undistracted mind.
Then, only focus on the activity slated for that specific time slot. Set all other distractions aside:
Your productivity will skyrocket, getting you closer to where you want to be.
10. Buy back your time
Successful and happy people value their time immensely since it cannot be replenished or increased.
If you make $50/hour ($100 if you’re unproductive for half of those “work” hours), why spend 4 hours cleaning your house when a housekeeper would do it for $100 ($25/hour)?
Anything that is easy to delegate and costs less than the amount you make per hour should be handed off, especially if you don’t enjoy doing it.
Buy back your time and put that energy into your business or other meaningful goals.
11. Have a good attitude
It doesn’t matter how “successful” you are if you’re not having a good time doing it.
Life gets better when you can enjoy whatever you’re doing.
- Be grateful
- Appreciate others
- Enjoy the small things in life
You don’t know how much time you’ll have here on Earth, so make the most of it.
Not only will your life improve, you’ll make it better for those around you. They’ll in turn treat you better, creating a virtuous cycle that improves your life.
12. Be true to who you are
Going against your beliefs and values is a poor way to live.
Maybe you work a job you hate because you have to pay the bills. Maybe you don’t spend time with your friends because it upsets your spouse.
You need to fix these problems.
Sometimes it requires a difficult conversation. Sometimes you have to take a scary risk. And sometimes you have to work harder now to climb out of the hole you’re in.
Whatever it is, decide who you are, who you want to be, and what you want your life to look like.
Then do everything you can to make that happen.
Originally published at https://robriker.com on March 7, 2021.
