success habits – On Tom Of The World

Success is a Mindset, and it’s not for Everyone

You will not be successful if you do not have a successful mindset.

This may seem obvious, but I never fully understood this until I took the time to discover what makes me happy independently. Not relying on others or things. I realized I can control my emotions through action to lead me to success; let me explain…

Around a year ago, I was tired of constantly feeling anxious, depressed, and totally shitty. Intuitively I knew what I needed to do, but for so long I didn’t feel empowered to actually execute it. Finally, I decided that my happiness was worth going through something difficult to benefit my wellbeing in the end. That situation from me was a breakup, but this could be a job, a friendship, or even family.

Once I started taking action, I started feeling happier. The more actions I took when feeling terrible, the more happiness I was able to embody. A year after building my momentum of positivity and empowerment, I finally understand that following those gut-feelings when you’re not feeling your best is your subconsious (or higher self) directing you towards your desires.

Since the beginning of 2021, I have managed to restructure my entire lifestyle so that I could be mentally, physically, and emotionally prepared to receive the love, happiness, and success I deserve. My morning routine checks off a handful of proactive steps towards goals I’ve been sleeping on. My meditation practice is getting so strong that I can listen to my subconscious BEFORE I’m put in an undesireable emotional state. My ability to single handedly raise my vibration to align with the miracles that now occur in my life is inherently insiring.

This is, however, A LOT of work. I have been putting in daily effort to enforce and hold myself accountable of the multitude of goals I will achieve. Although it takes time and energy to take consistent steps towards your dreams, once you’ve made it a habit, you start to see how being lazy and taking a day off from your goals feels worse than actually doing them. The day I felt worse not doing the things I’ve put off for so long was when I realized that I am ready for success.

After the first few months of working on my affiliate marketing business with 12 Minute Affiliate, I made over $700 with little effort. My post explaining how I made $458.95 without even noticing dives deeper into what I mean by “little effort.” But after taking a break to work on myself and mindset, I can see the possibility it is to make even more than $458.95 without noticing – it’s all about what you believe is possible. Until now, I never thought it could be possible – I now believe anything and everything is possible, especially my success.

Success isn’t for everyone. Success is for those who believe they are deserving and capable of it. As I continue to constantly expand my mind and beliefs, I am understanding how simply putting out the intention that I will be successful will actually lead to my succes, especially because I genuinely feel it’s possible. And today is the day I commit to building my affiliate marketing business regularly with more passion than ever. I am grateful for the overflow of abundance it provides me!

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Breaking Up with my Phone

I ran downstairs to put my laundry in the washer machine at around 10 a.m. the other day. “What are you doing up so early?” one of my housemates said as I half startled her while rushing to the laundry room. “I’ve been getting up earlier recently.”

If you were to ask any of my friends about my sleeping habits a month ago, they would tell you I go to sleep way too late and wake up past noon everyday. This wasn’t detrimental to my success because I purposely schedule my classes later in the day. However, I’ve been reading about numerous success habits and I’ve come to realize my sleeping habits are damaging to mental health. I decided to take action and make some changes to my lifestyle to improve my focus and mental stamina.

Throughout my life, I’ve learned that little changes yield big results – jumping into a lifestyle change is never going to work. One slight change I made to my life was breaking up with my phone and not sleeping in the same bed. Said without the metaphor, I began sleeping with my phone on my table about 10 feet away from my bed. This did two things: I couldn’t lay on my phone in bed wasting hours scrolling through feeds and I wasn’t always anxious to check my phone for no reason right before falling asleep or if I got up in the middle of the night.

Until now, I have always had struggles falling asleep. My childhood night terrors led to my mom giving me Melatonin every night to help put me to sleep and keep me asleep throughout the night. Inevitably, I grew a dependency to and tolerance against Melatonin. My only memories of going to sleep up until this point in my life involved laying in bed for at least an hour; tossing and turning to get comfortable and shut my brain off.

To focus on how fast this little habit has transformed my life, let’s look into the past 3 months of my life. On January 23th, I (most likely) went to bed around 4 a.m. and layed there until I fell asleep around 4:30/5 a.m. I woke up the following day around 12:30/1 p.m. This was my usual sleep pattern for the first 3 and a half years of college.

On March 23rd, I went to bed around 1 a.m. (with my phone on my table – more than an arms reach away) and fell asleep around 1:30 a.m. Although I was watching some Mad Men, I fell asleep easier than I did 3 months prior. I woke up from this particular sleep at 9:30 a.m. (30-minutes before my alarm goes off). It was my off day from the gym so I decided to read a little before getting up and taking a shower. Over the past few weeks, this has evolved from a rare night’s sleep to a reoccuring habit. I naturally get tired around midnight and fall asleep before 2 a.m and I get up before my 10 a.m. alarm everyday. This gives me time to wake up, read and/or go to the gym, which makes me feel way more energized throughout the day, before I go to class and get work done for my job. It’s been an incredible little habit that has transformed my lifestyle completely.

This is only one habit of a few that I changed to fix my atrocious sleeping schedule to match one of a (almost) normal human being. I’ve also forced myself out of bed everyday by 10:30 a.m. with a 10 a.m. daily alarm. This has trained my mind to turn on around the same time everyday, thus waking me up naturally without the use alarms. It is the best waking up every morning feeling awake without an obnoxious alarm, rather than waking up and fighting with everything you have to get your head off of your pillow.

Do you have any tips or tricks for better sleep or to change your sleeping habits? I’d love to hear them.