The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Seneca

Every day the sun rises is a new and precious window of opportunity. Our lives become how we utilize this slight, unnoticeable chance. 

Setting your big, unimaginable goals is the best way to foresee a successful life. Breaking the goals into small, everyday actions makes achieving the big dream possible. This plan sets the direction to spend your days doing small, right actions that, eventually, make your big dreams a reality. Seizing the day, every day, is what builds an extraordinary life over time.

Here are five daily practices that will make you avoid distraction and procrastination and help you build a system of long-term productivity and success.

The reason that I can’t find the enemy is that I have yet to look within myself.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

We all want the best for ourselves. We all have the latent potential to achieve almost everything we desire. But often, we just can’t. Why?

Because we set our goals and yet do things that make it impossible to achieve them, unknowingly, we reinforce daily attitudes, thoughts and behaviours that stand in the way of achievement.

Here are five self-destructive behaviours standing on your path to success. The ones that must give way, now!

Yesterday, I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi

Change is a critical ingredient in our thriving. It is the only way to get the best out of ourselves over time.

But in all honesty, personal change is a complicated process for everyone. Sadly, it gets more challenging and frustrating as we grow older. It is harder to overturn the things we have done and identified with for much longer.

Here are essential drivers of personal change that will make it easier for you to decide, commit and pursue a long-term positive transformation journey.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Jack Kornfield

The virtues of love, sacrifice and hard work are always taught to us. And so are the vices of selfishness and laziness.

But the distinction between compassion from self-neglect, and relaxation from lethargy, is not clear to many. It is common for all of us to go all out with unlimited compassion, selflessness and industriousness. Going beyond the limits means neglecting ourselves and downgrading our lives.  

This year, avoid depleting yourself physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually for the sake of things or others. Understand that prioritizing yourself is not selfishness and that you cannot pour continuously without refilling.

If you care for others without caring much about yourself, here are five ways to help you replenish before you run on empty this year.

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

Nelson Mandela

Life doesn’t just happen to us. We become our routine choices and decisions over time.

Our life today is the outcome of all the choices and decisions we have made in the past. And our life in the coming years will be determined by the small choices and routine actions we will continue to make.

The only way to achieve your desired life is by altering your daily life choices and actions from today. Here are the five critical life choices guaranteed to improve your life in the next five years.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A new year is a unique opportunity to reach greater, undiscovered levels of your life.

Most of us find this self-renewal challenge difficult because we have repeatedly broken our new year promises. But such is life; we must keep trying to rejuvenate ourselves whenever there is another chance.

If you still dream big, here are the fundamental things you must do to return to the way of greatness by the end of 2023.