Want Life Of Success,Happiness,Productivity And Good Health? 20 Best Habits To Adopt

        

Habits are key factors that can determine your condition in life,since they Will have impact on happiness, health, productivity, and success. Based on some research, reading, gathered  from the experts, here are the 20 best habits for happiness, health, productivity, and success.

1. Generosity — Spending money on other people has been found to lead to greater well-being and happiness than spending it on oneself.

2. Asking more questions — And actually listening to the answers. Creativity and leadership expert Paul Sloane, author of 17 books such as The Innovative Leaders, suggests that asking questions is the single most important habit for innovative thinkers.

3. Making Your Bed .Gretchen Rubin bestselling author and happiness researcher, declares:“When I was researching my book on happiness, this was the number one most impactful change that people brought up over and over.” Making your bed kick starts chain reaction of other productive habits throughout the day.

4. Celebration — Pause to enjoy your successes before proceeding to the next thing. David Campbell, former senior fellow with the Center for Creative Leadership, explains: “Celebrations are the punctuation marks that make sense of the passage of time; without them, there are no beginnings and no endings. Life becomes an endless series of Wednesdays".

5. Smiling — The simple act of smiling reduces stress and increases happiness,even when you're faking or forcing the smile. Putting on a happy face actually can make you happier.

6. Buying experiences, not things — Quite a number of researchers show that experiences actually bring people more happiness than material goods.

7. Saying no more often — Trying to do everything most of the time means not doing anything very well. Journalist and success researcher Shane Snow states that often “the thing holding us back from success is our inability to say no.”

8. Being punctual — Being on time is one habit that can help in two very important things — it reduces stress and improves relationships at the same time. New York Times best-selling author Greg McKeown recommends additional 50% buffer to  the amount of time something will take in order to show up on time.

9. Choose a good attitude — Attitude is a decision that we make daily (and usually throughout each day). Strengthen relationship and increase your chances of success by deciding to get a good one.

10. Keep some time on your calendar to think — Get inspiration from Bill Gates, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos by sparing uninterrupted thinking time into your schedule.

11. Avoid checking email first thing in the morning or last thing before bed — This approach is championed by Tim Ferriss who suggests that email first thing can derail your priorities for the day and email just before sleeping can give you insomnia. Putting this into practice can be a life-changer for you.

12. Doing one thing at a time — Do one thing at a time and pay attention when doing it. Giving our attention only to the task at hand allows us to achieve more while feeling less anxious and less scatterbrained. Furthermore, keep your phone away when you are spending time with another person and let them have your undivided attention.

13. Waking up early — Get a jump-start on the day and face your most important task first-thing. Get inspiration from early risers like Richard Branson, Michelle Obama, Anna Wintour, Tim Cook, Howard Schultz, and more.

14. Reduce your daily to-do list to your 3 most important items — And monitor your productivity skyrocketing. Chris Bailey, best-selling author of The Productivity Project, states this habit is one of the absolute best ways to positively impact your work and life on a daily basis.

15. Write down the 3 things you are most grateful for at the end of every day — Keeping an attitude of gratitude has been shown to improve mood and physical health. Lewis Howes, best-selling author of The School of Greatness, declares:“If you concentrate on what you have, you’ll always have more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you’ll never have enough.”

16. Take Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants. — This thought is endorsed by renowned author and food researcher Michael Pollan. Eat the way you like to achieve health in line with this optimal nutrition plan.

17. Reading — Reading is one habit ultra-successful people share in common. Business leaders like Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk stress that reading has been critical to their success.

18. Getting 8 hours of sleep each night — Anything less won’t help, says Dr. Mike Dow, best-selling author. The experts recommend having and sticking to a consistent sleep schedule, going to sleep and getting up at the same time on daily basis(even weekends).

19. Keeping close relationships — Social connection is the greatest trigger of happiness, according to Harvard researcher and happiness expert Shawn Achor , having studied the topic for more than a dozen years.

20. Exercising— It is “the single-most powerful tool you have to optimize your brain function,” says John J. Ratey MD in his best-selling book Spark."Exercising daily (even for just 30 minutes or less) has changed my life more than any other habit!,he says