Thirty Minutes and
Success and Happiness are Yours
Tim Connor
Don’t believe me – read on.
If you devoted just 30 minutes a day,
focused on a variety of actions, attitudes and behaviors you can’t imagine the
positive outcomes both short and long term.
Everyone wastes a great deal of time every day on any number of useless
and often nonproductive activities. If they would just invest a simple thirty
minutes a day concentrating on simple and productive actions they would be
amazed at the progress they could make in a variety of life areas;
relationships, health, wealth, career and life in general.
You can find thirty minutes a day - the
problem is the willingness to devote this time in activities that will produce
more successful outcomes than current behaviors or routines. Let me ask you -
do you spend at least thirty minutes or more every day – in front of the TV, at
your computer searching aimlessly for information that will not change your
life, commuting to and from work, jogging, gardening etc? I’m not implying that these and other
activities are not worthwhile or valuable uses of your time and don’t often
contribute to your success or happiness, but the question remains – if you
spent just thirty minutes each day on specific actions that over time would
specifically and directly improve an important aspect of your life – would this
be a worthwhile task? If yes, read
on. If no, don’t waste any more time reading
this.
I have developed a simple approach to
ensuring that each day of your life you make regular progress in the right
direction toward your goals, dreams and desires.
Yes, we all need to improve our talent
and skills. Yes, we all need to spend
time at work or on our businesses or careers and yes, we all need to devote
time to our families and building relationships, but if you will follow the
following process you will make significant progress sooner rather than later
in all these areas.
So, what’s the process?
At the end of this article there are
thirty actions I would like you to take or focus on each day for thirty
days. Here’s how it works.
Print off the list and individually cut
each item from the list and fold them in half.
Now put the items in a jar. Every
day reach into the jar and pull out one item.
Focus on this item for thirty minutes before the end of the day. Put the item aside and the next day randomly
pull out the another item and just repeat the above process.
At the end of thirty days put all the
items back in the jar and begin the process again. I’m suggesting you spend just thirty minutes
a day focusing on a single behavior.
Yes, you will go about the rest of your day as usual. The only thing you have changed is that you
are spending thirty minutes during a twenty four hour day on a specific action.
I also recommend that you start a thirty
minute journal and at the end of each session take just a minute and record
something, anything that you did, thought, felt etc. during that session.
What have you got to lose? Just try it
for one month and if something in your life hasn’t improved – well, call me
crazy, however if something in your life is better or has improved was it worth
fifteen hours of your life in one month?
By the way you got a total of 720 hours that month – so that’s .02% of
your time you spent on this process.)
Here are the thirty actions;
Read Think Slow down
Believe Feel Practice
Dream Learn Evaluate
Pray Try Help others
Be Create Let go of something
Question Study Say thank you
Examine Laugh Reach out to others
Connect Share Listen
Forgive Plan Build someone up
“Frequently
the difference between success and failure is the resolve to stick to your plan
long enough to win.”
David Cottrell
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