15 Habits You Can Adopt By Setting Up Resolution

This post is complimentary with my earlier post on reasons to have resolution this year. In line with reason, here is the list of habits that can be achieved by setting up resolution. I have tried to order the habits by considering a whole day meaningful with respect to these habits:

1. Be Part of 5am Club
Waking up early has it's own advnatage. You are less mindful hence can plan the day ahead of it's start. This is noticed that all great personalities have habit of getting up early.

2. Respect Your Health
Health is wealth. Hence value your health. Do walk, do run, do join fitness club. 

3. Maintain Healthy Diet
I do not agree with proverb - Eat whatever you want and let food fight inside. Instead eat healthy, green vegetables and less bakery products. Maintain the schedule of your intake.

4. Value Work-Life Balance
Eight hours are enough! Stop spending extra hours in office. Set the clock and spend quality time with family every day.

5. Reading Books
Books are greatest teacher on earth. Carry a book while travelling, hence instead of starring at road for bus or train, spend time by reading your favourite novel. Set a goal to reach certain number of books per quarter or year. There are numerous apps which keep you alert on your reading list.

6. Schedule Social Media Activity
Stop refreshing that social media apps. Set aside an hour or so at the end of the day for social media activity unless and until you have business driven by social media account.

7. Speak Less, Do More
Stop engaging in discussion which has no outcome. Instead engage yourself in activities that will yield results, like learning new skills, reading books, listening to inspirational stories or music.

8. Discuss Idea, Not People
As a human, every time we tend to discuss once success and failure. Pinch yourself, and turn the discussion to idea instead of discussing once shortcomings. This is greatest ability of leaders who discuss more idea than people.

9. Learn Yoga
A gym will give you healthy state of body, however yoga will give you inner peace. Learn yoga or join the club.

10. Cycle Ride
Stop that car or bike for a day and ride bicycle. Alternately mount the bike on your car and drive through the area far from city and enjoy adventure cycling. Do not forgot to carry your safety gear.

11. Turn Off Unnecessary Notification
Check your mobile app settings and turn off unnecessary notifications. Except personal messaging apps, rest apps can be checked during scheduled time like lunch or tea break, instead of getting disturbed during the daily activities.

12. Play Outdoor Games
In this fast pace life, set time aside over alternate day or weekends to play outdoor game like Cricket, Football, Badminton etc.

13. Have Cousin Outing
Cousins are most dearer when it comes to enjoy childhood memories. Keep some summer vacation time dedicated to spend time with them. Plan a tour in advance or have get together at your own farm-house and re-live those childhood moments.

14. Giveback To Society
We are part of such a lively society where we play, learn and grow. Hence be grateful and give back to society. There are number of NGO which ask for your time so that you can digitally literate the people or volunteers for social activities. If you can't give time then you can prefer donating online.

15. Stay Thankful
We are blessed to be here on earth with such a beautiful human culture around. Be thankful for all you have achieved so far.

Hope these 15 habits will enable you to set some key goals as resolution for new year. Wish you all the best!!!

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3 Reasons To Set Resolution For New Year!

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Over the years, I made number of resolutions on very start of every new year. However, the difficult part was to living with those till end of the year. To overcome this shortcoming, I have three ways to achieve my own resolution with simple goal setting and achieving mastery over them.

1. Make it habit with simple goals

In the first few year, it was like deciding on resolutions but nothing in action, resulting into no outcome. I will suggest do not stop, keep up making resolution. It will pump fuel to that particular topic of interest year on year. For example, since I completed my schooling, I am struggling to get hands on my favourite non-fictions, hence I started with at least reading 2-3 book for a year of 2012, which yield to set 25 books this year and I manage to read 15 books. So make it habit to set the resolutions with simple and realistic goal which will give you joy of completing those. Grab the pen and paper, set those out now!

2. Reap the fruits 

Like book reading, the resolution turned to habit now. Hence you can enjoy eternal joy of getting pleasure of that particular habit which you like the most. Once it become habit, you can focus on its consistency which will yield to reap the fruit which you like the most.

3. Stretch your mind

Learn to stretch the mind because famous quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson suggest that, mind once stretched, never return to originality. Set next resolution more challenging than previous year. If you have already turned it to habit then set yourself to acquire new one.

Like the example of improving book reading, a resolution can be getting in good shape (Join the gym or having good diet), developing positive attitude (Learning Yoga or Positive Thinking), learn competitive skills to grow professionally. 

Hope three reasons will enable you to set the resolution to keep the spark of your likes alive forever! This will boost your confidence as you are getting edge over your strengths. All the best!!!

2016 - Year at glance!

I (We) am (are) not that much Facebook frenzy (Are you kidding me? I spend most of my mobile-data by just scrolling down over your posts) so that FB's algorithm can make my (our) galvanising video of our activities of year-2016 hence this post 😎

Why we? Because I don't want media to surround me when I return to India, it was so media-frenzy statement, wasn't it? Wish I was celebrity 😉 Anyway, joke apart! 😊 

So, year 2016 was of resolutions, few to make and more to break,
It was year of being outsider,
It was year of acquiring new friends,
It was year to get surrounded by friends,
It was year of experiencing distance friendship (Distance Friendship? 😮 Am I coined new relationship?),
It was year of going blind, but not deaf.

There was lot of outlook on my last 365 days of journey and hope upcoming year will unleash avenue of new opportunities, learning and adventure. Fingers crossed at least until I get hitched! 💞

I wish each one of you found either opportunities or learning (Term - Failure is not in my dictionary 😉) in lasting impressive year of 2016, and wish new year fortune has already started showing horizon of new hope, success and happiness to you! Wish you all the very best and Happy New Year 2017!

Wish you all have fantastic vacation! Take care and travel safe!

Note - You can re-read the post by skipping text in brackets.😎