Time and again I have seen many people, in the course of my training who used to ask me certain questions, wanting to change certain habits and develop good habits. I don't generally call anything to be a good or bad habit. I prefer calling them Useful or Not useful habits. Because the moment you call them good or bad, you begin to start justifying. Once you question your integrity about what is useful or not useful you tend to me more objective and make the right decisions.

Few habits which I feel that you must have to develop (if you have not done so yet) that will for sure improve the quality of your life and take your like to the next level.

• Be an Early Bird: I really mean it. The energy that surrounds you early in the morning is so refreshing that it gives you the momentum to go higher. I know there are a few of who say, "Hey listen I work late in the night and how do you expect me to wake up early in the morning". If possible do change your schedule of working, else atleast wake up atleast 3 to 4 times in a week to start with. There is a specific reason why the Sun always rises in the east at a specific time in a day. We don't need to understand the reason but just use it with the blind faith and belief that there is a purpose and will do a lot of good for us

• Move your Body and Exercise: Motion means emotion. Any super achiever is so because of the mental state they are in and the way you use and drive the body physiology determines the mental state you are in. if you feel lousy you can never step out to take action and action means results. Your body needs to be more tuned to your work, your breathing and your beat must be in harmony with the thoughts and action and the way to do so is by exercising. Take a brisk walk for 20 mins or practice yoga, play a game of tennis or volleyball.

• Grow your Brain with Mental Activities: Read a book per week. Do your best to finish it or at read 20 pages every day. Once you do it for 3 days increase to 40 pages per day. Visit personal development websites like lifeofexcellence.com

• Don't Worry Be Happy - The choice of being happy is always with you. There is no reason for you to celebrate and be happy. As you wake up in the morning just decide to be happy. Smile every day. For the first 4 hrs of the day whomever you meet, you must have to smile at them first even before you start work with them. A smile move a million cells, a thousand nerves and few hundred muscles and as said before motion creates emotion and would make you feel energetic and perform better

• Say thanks with a Sense of Gratitude: You must be thankful for many things that happen in your life. First thank yourself for what you are. As you do so your self esteem too increases. Thank the people around you for making a difference in your life. Your family, colleagues, friends and many more. Thank many unknown people who are making your life better. You might not have seen them but the person plants the tree which bears fruits makes a difference in your life. Do this every day in the morning and before bed. You would push yourself to achieve more.

• Goals and Small tasks for the week: I am sure you would have seen my video on achieving Goals in 2008. (If not click here...Goals in 2008). Once you have the bigger goals, you must have to chunk them down to smaller tasks. This will make you achieve your targets faster and makes it achievable. Small tasks are always easy to achieve.

• Action towards goals and strategies: Failure is not when you do not get the results you want. Failure is when you do not take action. Once you set your goal, if you do not take any action on that I don't think you would ever achieve it. Kill Procrastination this moment (Listen to my audio on Kill Procrastination). Successful people are so not because they were lucky. Have that momentum in you so that you can move faster to achieve what you want.

• Spend time with Successful people, Energetic people: I believe that if you surrounded with energetic people you too tend to be energetic. If you move with wealthy people you too carry the same mindset. Many times you hang out with friends and you tend to have the same ideas as theirs. You have common likes and dislikes. Have certain common attitude about things. Can you do the same in the area you want to excel? If you want to be healthy move with people who care about fitness they will talk about your body, the food you take and so on and then you too become aware of the external world around you. If you wish to be a successful entrepreneur you must move with the like minded people. If you want to be a great public speaker, you must have to be with people who are excellent in that area. So start now, catch hold of people who are the best in the area you want to excel in, make friends with them and spend more time with them

• Watch the calendar, be more organized: I believed always, an unorganized person can only attract unorganized and unexpected results. You can achieve anything in life as long as you have the strategy. Your outcomes have to be time bound and achievable. I know how difficult it is for your follow time table but remember what happened in school. Your teachers followed a specific schedule so that she can give the best you and achieve the outcomes. If you need to achieve the outcomes then you too need to be organized. Life definitely has become easy today with all the automated beepers, schedulers etc. I have also shared some tools on Time Management and listen to the Podcast on Time Management.

• Eat Healthy, Feel Healthy: Remember your body determines the actions that you take. How it would it be when you stuff yourself with all possible foods, junk, high calorie food? You go on a party and since it has to be enjoyed, you eat whatever you feel like. You wake up in the morning how do you feel? Never feel like getting up from the bed. A day of this happening is fine and if the same happens everyday what kind of results can you produce? It is better to eat right. Eat right and feel great. You must eat to feel energetic. And all that you need is a small, balanced light meal.

• Keep up your Money Matters: Is this a habit that you must develop? Definitely yes! You ruin yourself because you do not manage your money matters in the right way. Never spend more than what you want. Start using a chart to analyze your saving, your expenses. Target to reduce your expenses and increase your savings. Now why? Is it to have a better life? Probably yes but even more important thing that you must do is to avoid wasting money and use it for a better purpose. Give it to charity and the satisfaction that you will achieve is much more than you owing a Mercedes Benz.

• Family Time: If you need to energize yourself then you need to spend time where there is lot of love. The place where you can get this is at home and no where else. Have a small time with family every week when you sit together and make decision relating to the entire family. You can follow the technique that is explained by Mr. Jack Canfield (Author of best seller Chicken Soup for the soul), in his book Power of Focus. Grade the family members on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being least and 10 being high. Tell them why you grade them so. What nice things they did and what did they not do and so on. You might think in family do I evaluate? What happens is there is lots of transparency between every member in the family. This makes sure that the communication is better between you and every one in the family. The love, care for them would definitely increase and they would feel more connected as they know more of you and you know lots of them.

• Pursue your Hobby: Passion always gives motivation. Do something you love and you would be motivated to do more of everything. Your stamp book might be in the cupboards, the paint brushes need to be dusted. Start tomorrow (why not today, you can). Never say you are bored, you don't have time. They are just excuses.

• Throw out your lame thoughts: This is probably the best habit that you must have to develop. You run too many thoughts and most of them are negative. Apart from being a positive thinker begin to focus on things that are useful for you that would drive you achieve more. Do listen to my podcast on Power of Subconscious mind where I share more on what is the power of your mind that would affect the results in your life. Throw the junk away from your mind so that you will be stronger in your life. Garbage is not good and hence dispose them from your mind. Its as easy as focusing on something nice.

With these 14 habits that you develop, you can be 100% sure that your life will be much better.