Your Mindless Habits

A Duke University study found that 40% of what we do is mindless habit.  That’s both useful (saves energy) and dangerous (that comfortable rut). 
What’s the habit that serves you most at the moment?

Which one serves you least?

Think about that, 40% of what we do is mindless habit!  What could you do with that 40% if you were present?  Now some habits are useful, they save our energy, they let us do two things at once.  Think about your useful habits.  How could you increase those useful habits?  

Now, think about those dangerous habits, the ones that keep us in a rut.  I once heard the best description of a rut and that is "A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out!"  Are those dangerous habits serving you or are they holding you back or even killing you?  They can't be doing all three so you need to decide if they are worth keeping or should they be tossed in the garbage bin?

Too often we allow our lives to become a mindless habit.  We get up, shower, brush our teeth, fix our hair, shave all without thinking.  Then we go to work, take the same roads we always take and again, no thinking.  Then we get to work, we do the same thing we have always done again without thinking.  We drive home, eat dinner and turn on the tv and any thinking we would have done devolves into mush...

Remember, "The secret to our future is hidden in our daily routine."  If the above is your daily routine, I don't see much of a future there.  WAKE UP TO YOUR FUTURE!  Start getting out of those mindless habits and start living!

Know.  Be Known.  Make A Difference!

A Duke University study found that 40% of what we do is mindless habit.  That’s both useful (saves energy) and dangerous (that comfortable rut). 
What’s the habit that serves you most at the moment?

Which one serves you least?

Your Future? Hidden In Your Daily Routine

"The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine."~Mike Murdoch

How does your routine change? Or does it always go a certain way and you are just hoping for different results? Einstein called that insanity.

If our future is hidden in our daily routine, How would you change yours? What would you stop doing and what would you do instead? Why? Oh, you realize that what you're doing isn't working, but just haven't changed it yet...hmmm. Why?

You know that you want to achieve more but you just can't put your finger on what to do...

Start with analyzing your daily routine. See what you are doing that no longer serves any purpose for you and replace it with something that does serve you. The more things you do that serve you, the better chance you will have of creating the future that you want.

Maybe it's something as simple as making coffee at home instead of paying $5 bucks for Starbucks, or maybe it something as difficult as getting up an hour earlier to work out or take a walk. Maybe it's something as difficult as not eating those donuts or maybe it's something as easy as spending an hour reading more about how to improve your networking...(maybe those should be turned around...).

Analyze your daily routine and make sure that everything you do is serving you. Not anyone else, but you.

Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!

"The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine."