30 days: Change your habits, Change your life

When will you start walking one hour per day?
Do it for 30 days
and let me know how it feels!

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What are your standards?
I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
—STEPHEN COVEY
Expect and demand more from yourself and from those around you.
If you really want to make a change in your life, you have to raise
your standards. Have a zero-tolerance policy for mediocrity,
procrastination and behavior that impedes your best performance!
Your standards could be, for example, to always tell the truth, to
always be punctual, to really listen to people until they are finished,
and so on. Hold yourself to high standards and—what is of the same
or even more importance—set boundaries for those around you.
Boundaries are things that people simply can’t do to you like yell at
you, make stupid jokes around you, or disrespect you. Communicate
clearly and make it a habit to address anything that bothers you on
the spot. Remember what the proverb says: “In the right tone you
can say everything, in the wrong tone nothing, the art is to find the
right tone.” Practise saying things in a neutral tone of voice like you’d
say “the sun is shining”.
If somebody is overstepping your boundaries, 
inform
them by
saying: “I didn’t like that comment” or “I don’t like you talking to me in
that tone.” If they go on, 
request
them to stop: “I ask you to stop
talking to me like this.” By now, most people should get it, but there
are always a few that continue. If that happens—
insist
: “I insist that
you stop talking to me in that way.” If all three steps don’t help,
leave!
Walk away neutrally stating, “I can’t have this conversation,
while you are ____________________________. Let’s talk later.”

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Action Steps:
Write down the following things
:
Things you will no longer accept in your life.
All the behaviors you will no longer tolerate from others.
All the things you want to become.

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Adapt an attitude of gratitude
Be thankful for what you have; you’ll
end up having more. If you concentrate on what
you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.
—OPRAH WINFREY
Listen to Oprah! Be grateful for what you have every day and you will
attract more things to be grateful for. Gratitude recharges you with
energy and boosts your self-worth. It’s directly linked to physical and
mental well-being. The “attitude of gratitude” leads you directly to
happiness and is the best antidote to anger, envy and resentment!
Let it become part of your nature.