These past few months I’ve been spending a lot of effort investigating ways that I can revamp and upgrade my own daily routines and implement habits in order to boost my productivity and athletic performance. In this post I’ve put together a list of some of the books that I’ve read/listened over the past few months and also some memorable ones that I’ve read long ago. My Morning Routine: How Successful people start every day inspired Benjamin Spall & Michael Xander This is a great book about how the choices we make in the morning determine how productive and mindful our day will be. It’s for the morning person that…
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Top 10 daily habits of people with a growth mindset
My latest research involved searching the internet or reaching out directly to people that I consider to have a growth mindset. These people included athletes, entrepreneurs, CEOs, fellow health coaches and bloggers, friends, and participants of my daily habits challenge. After 2 weeks of research, I had a list of 118 people that had revealed a total of 442 daily habits. The results revealed some common trends in daily habits so I lumped habits into categories and ranked them in order. Here are the 10 ten categories of daily habits of people with a growth mindset. #10: Spend time with family. The 10th most popular category of habits was…
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How knowing the science of habits can help you make or break them
Habits are defined as a regularly repeated behavior which requires little or no thought. Habits are learned through reinforcement and repetition rather than innate or instinctual. It is estimated that 45-50% of every action we take in a single day is the result of being on auto-pilot. We all have habits and routines and do things without even thinking about it. Examples of these automation include: the order that we wash ourselves in the shower, the route we take to work, how we do our laundry, how we drive our car, and so on. Many of us don’t have to think about putting on our seat belt or turning…
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5 morning habits for daily productivity
Hydrate upon waking. While you’re asleep, your body is hard at work healing and restoring for 6-9 hours and this process uses up a lot of water. As soon as you wake up, hydrate as soon as possible to replenish the liquid you lost overnight. Consuming water on an empty stomach is also a great way to detoxify and gently wake up your digestive tract, thus improving gut health. To make this a habit, put a glass of water near the first thing you do each morning. If the first thing you do it read in bed, then have a water bottle next to your bed for when you wake…
