Thriving Through Daily Habits

Thriving Through Daily Habits is a formula for transcending every day blues and stress into being a master of your fate. The secret is to schedule blocks of time and other processes to make positive gains every day.

What are some of the most beneficial habits for experiencing happiness. Happiness is not a crime. Nature has programmed us to pursue habits that help us survive and thrive. Maslow’s pyramid ascends through survival to self-actualization. Self-actualization is a good process for thriving.

The Brain is in Charge of Behaviors and Thriving

The brain stimulates happiness hormones and neurotransmitters for the right behaviors. Regardless of what we may think of as happiness like shopping, overeating, gambling, or achieving plus many other positive and destructive behaviors there is a common theme.

Nature wants us to better adapt to make the next generations stronger. In that process we have to survive by eating, procreating, and building community, In this process we have many drives. We learned to hunt or gather, look for mates for sex, protect those in our charge, join with others to provide better survival odds.

What Are the Most Productive Behaviors for Thriving?

The modern habits for achieving these goals looks more like learning, creativity, caring, protecting, contributing, and exercise. Each stimulates happiness brain chemicals as a result of our increased odds for thriving.

Include these behaviors in your every day schedule to master your fate and make life feel purposeful. Making each a daily habit rather than an exercise when we think about it makes it a default we follow without thinking. I start each day with 20 minutes of meditation. I don’t contemplate about it, I just do it immediately.

Creating Time Blocks for the Thriving Behaviors

My next routines are writing and then exercising in my highest energy periods of the day. I leave the mundane, unimportant, and to do lists for the afternoon when my creative energy is lowest. Each day I like to summarize that it was a good day. Most days I feel like I am making progress toward my work and life goals The process is what creates happiness, not necessarily achieving them. Achieving them is only a short term perk.

Getting promoted might provide more money which gives me more opportunities to advance my agendas. Maybe my goal is to obtain more responsibility so I can make a bigger contribution. If contribution is my purpose, then I have a lifetime of ascending to find out who I am. This maybe one of man’s greatest drives and accounts for our species progress.

Behaviors Must Be in Alignment with Thriving

Creating time blocks is a prime way of including behaviors in our daily routine. We have obligations. We have goals. We have to be sure our goals get as much priority as our “to-do-lists”. One guru had us real estate industry followers track our time for a week. He gave us the activities that qualified as productive, indirectly productive, and non-productive. Most of us found we had at least 60% of our time was non-productive.

Workers want to thrive which means they must make their time purposeful. They may need solitude, learning, contributing, caring, protecting, recreation, and increased earnings to make them feel purposeful. Employers could counsel and support workers better if everyone was clear on what makes thriving a reality.

Employers want workers to thrive so they feel loyal to the mission and the organization. Sometimes the attempts are hit and miss and do not contribute to the whole process of what is necessary to thrive. Thriving has to be comprehensive. It can’t leave gaps or holes in what is important. Worker self-knowledge is crucial for the worker and the organization to be in alignment.