7 THINGS YOU NEED TO DO TO HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!

 

Well Monday is here again. While this of course means the weekend is over, it also means a new week of unlimited potential lies ahead. The following are ideas that will help you have a happy, productive and meaningful week:

        1. Set Goals

• Identifying Roles: identify the key roles in your life. If you haven’t given this much thought before, just write down what immediately comes to mind. 
• Selecting Goals: next think of 2 or 3 important things you would like to accomplish in each of these roles in the coming week.
• Scheduling: this basically involves taking the above goals, and scheduling.    

• 2. Get the Most Out of Every Day

  This may sound like a cliche, but each and every day is a gift. Don’t indefinitely delay happiness in your life or settle for being bored. Be inspired. Live with vitality. Enjoy life every day.
   

  3. Do That Thing You Are Resisting

  Almost everyone has at least one thing that they are resisting. Perhaps it is fixing something around the house, making an important phone call or re-starting the exercise habit. Get that thing done, and you will be sure to feel to feel as if you have accomplished something this week.
  

  4. Nurture Your Relationships

  I truly believe that happiness is highly dependent on the quality of our relationships with other people. So be committed to nurturing these relationships. Here are some quick ideas how:
  
• Pick up the phone: email is great, but make a point every so often to pick up the phone and speak to your friends and family.
• Meet a friend for lunch: do you have a friend that seems to have fallen off the side of the Earth? Invite them out to lunch and catch up on everything you have missed.
• Ping: even if you are extremely busy this week, find the time to send a friend or family member a quick email or text message. If nothing else, it shows you are thinking about them.
• Remember birthdays: make a point to remember important dates, such as birthdays. I suggest taking time out one day to mark your diary with these important dates. Tip: Facebook is great for discovering birthdays.

5. Stretch Yourself 

  Stretch yourself by trying something new this week.

6. Be Disciplined

Starting the week by setting goals is a bit like making new years eve resolutions: they are easy to make, but as time progresses it can be hard to capture the same motivation that was present when you first made them.

7. Make a Difference

This week commit to making a positive difference in the world. Even the following small actions can make a big difference in the life of another person and/ or the world:

• Buy lunch for a hungry pan-handler
• Donate to that person shaking a tin for charity
• Recycle
• Plant a tree
• Volunteer your time for a good cause
• Put a smile on a child’s face.                                                                                                                                                   
• Have yourself a lovely week from WinieGistsNaija!