YOUR ROUTINES DEFINE YOUR SUCCESS

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Sandhya Reddy ? Business coaching, Executive
coaching ? 0 Comment As a writer on Quora, I
get asked the same question several times. Howto
stay motivated? Howto sustain motivation when a
setback makes you really upset? Howto remain
motivated when you are not in the best of
spirits? Howto remain motivated when you are a
freelance consultant working from home? And have
no company? I hate to see this but there is no
magic wand to solve this problem. But there is
one magical word routine. What you do every
single day defines your life. What you do once a
month does not. So its not enough to have a
goal that inspires you.
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Its not enough to have a rock solid plan to make
that goal happen. Its not even enough to have
the highest IQ on the planet. Without routines,
you are nothing. Without living the goal through
many, micro daily quotas, you are only fooling
yourself. Sure, there are days when youre bored
or dissipated and you cant work. Thats normal.
Take a break. Meet a friend. Watch a film. But
get back on track after that. Finish your daily
quota. But if you find that you cant get back
on track, then there is either something wrong
with you or your goal. Figure out what the
problem is and fix it. Because goals are not
achieved by genius or team work or any of that
jazz. They are all important. But in the end the
only thing that forges all of that together in
order to achieve the goal, is the very boring but
very crucial small, daily quota. Fall in love
with your small, daily quota. Dont look at it
as something thats small and boring. Give it
meaning. Look at it as one crucial piece to a
magnificent puzzle. Setbacks? That happens to
all of us. The problem arises when you believe a
setback reflects on your character. Thats not
true. A setback simply means you failed in one
approach. Understand why you failed. And try
another approach. Remember, if plans A and B
fail, you still have another 2 alphabets to work
with. Train your mind to see setbacks as a part
of success, not the opposite of success and
you will look past them and move on
powerfully. Freelance consultant working from
home? Keep getting distracted by kids, hobbies,
and friends? I work that way. Heres how I deal
with it Have a goal for the quarter. What do
you want to achieve in the next 3 months? Make it
concrete and measurable. Break that goal into 90
daily quotas. All you need to do today is fulfil
one daily quota. Thats probably 3-4 hours of
work, if not more. It has been proven that
nobody can work at peak performance for more than
45 minutes or an hour at a time. Take breaks
after every hour. Go for a walk. Have a cup of
coffee. Reach out to someone. Breaks help you
stay productive and focused. Know your most
productive time of the day and use it
relentlessly. Irrespective of the nature of your
work or what stage you are in, it is a great
practice to start your day with a workout. You
dont work out? You have a problem. There is no
other way of putting it. No, you dont need to
bust your gut with weights in the gym. All you
need to do is jog for thirty minutes. No healthy
person in the world can offer a justification for
not jogging for thirty minutes a day. Why should
you do it? Any kind of exercise even for just
15 minutes does something magical to your
brain. It releases dopamine into your brain
cells. Dopamine triggers many other hormones that
work wonders on your mood and sense of
well-being. In other words, a jog is the most
natural, under-utilized anti-depressant. Like
every good piece of training, it tricks your
brain into feeling happy and happy people are
more productive and positive. After your workout,
get to work. Trust me it is very hard to not
feel optimistic after a good workout! And what
if, despite all this, you just feel too low and
cant stick to your daily quota? Well, if the
feeling persists, I suggest see a therapist. But
first, try to tackle it head-on. The best way to
do that is gentle persistence. Giant boulders are
worn down by seemingly small streams. This
happens not because streams are supernatural but
because they have supernatural patience. Ernest
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Hemingway said when he was depressed or
unproductive he would coach himself to write
one, true sentence. Just writing one
true sentence, in his opinion, was enough. Then
another after that, and another one after that,
and so on pretty soon he had a damn good page
of writing. His daily quota was done. Hitting a
wall in your head today? Do five minutes of solid
work. Just five minutes of real, serious, work.
The next five minutes will emerge out of that.
And so on. Soon, youre flying. About the
Author Sandhya Reddy is a leadership
transformation coach based in Bangalore, India.
She is the Founder and Principal Coach at
Chapter Two Coaching, a coaching consultancy that
enables everyone from CEOs to work-from-home
parents to achieve their goals by replacing
self-imposed limitations with enabling stories.
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