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Ten Delicious Daily Habits

Written by: Ruth Hegarty

Article Overview: Empowering yourself and building confidence is about making adjustments to your current thinking and lifestyle that result in more positive and affirming actions.

Ten Delicious Daily Habits

"...the changes that matter most, the ones that really make a difference, are the ones that create the habits of a lifetime." - Dan Baker

Empowering yourself and building confidence is about making adjustments to your current thinking and lifestyle that result in more positive and affirming actions.

A great place to start is to implement "10 Delicious Daily Habits." What are the 10 Delicious Daily Habits? Simply put, they are any ten things that you do on a daily basis that make you feel great. When developing your delicious habits, avoid listing anything that you feel you "should" do. For example, if you hate to exercise, then it's not a delicious daily habit. However, if you love to exercise, but often let it take a backseat to other chores, then it is a delicious daily habit. Creating these habits is about choosing to make your perfect life a priority. Think about what is important in your life that you want to experience every day. Make a commitment to yourself that you will schedule time for those things. Are you so rushed in the morning that you never have time for breakfast or journaling, yet your mental picture of your perfect life is you sitting with a cup of tea and a bowl of fruit salad writing a few pages in your journal every morning? Bring that picture to life by having breakfast and journaling two of your delicious daily habits. Then take action to make these habits a reality. Perhaps you can shower the night before to free up morning time for breakfast or get up 15 minutes earlier. Avoid having to watch the clock by setting a kitchen timer for 15 - 20 minutes so you can get lost in your thoughts until the bell lets you know it's time to go to work. You may decide to start small by choosing just a couple of days in the week for implementing this daily habit. You can build it up to every day over time.

Doing ten wonderful things for yourself every single day, whether practical like getting 8 hours of sleep a night to feel more energetic or purely fun like singing out loud in the shower is a loving way to show yourself that you are your top priority. Once you make a habit out of being a priority in your life in little ways, you will find it so much easier to make yourself a priority in big ways like what you do for a living, who you spend time with, where you live, and all the other things that create your perfect life.

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