What we do each day determines the course of our life. If you are not happy with how things are going it is time to redirect your focus. Today I am going to share some healthy habits and choices that you can implement to change your life.

Enhance your life each day with just a few minutes:

1. Learn a valuable skill from a friend. You might have a friend that’s great with people or has fantastic persistence. Maybe one of your friends is overflowing with self-confidence. Find out how they do it.
2. Create a mission statement. What do you stand for? What is your life about? Think about it and create a mission statement for yourself. Your statement will evolve over time as you change and grow.
3. Describe your ideal existence five years from now. What do you want to see, have, do, and experience in your future? Make a decision now. Envision the details of your desired daily life. 
4. Acquire new knowledge. There’s no reason to be the same person you’ve been for the last five years. Learn something new and expand your skillset. What would be useful for you to learn? How could you enhance your ability to be successful at work?
5. Eliminate one time-waster from your life. Just for a day, avoid one of the ways you waste time when you’re bored or stressed. You might decide to continue your new pattern.
6. Wake up early and put the time to good use. The morning hours can be especially productive. Take advantage of them.
7. Read something worthwhile for 20 minutes. Turn off the TV for 20 minutes and read something with the potential to change your life for the better. Just 20 minutes each day can have a great impact. 
8. Start a journal. Record your life and learn from it. You might even want to allow your children to read it some day.
9. Work your brain with something fun. Play a game of chess or solve a few brain-teasers. Put away the calculator and use the old noggin for a change. Exercise your brain as you would your body.
10. List the positive traits of someone you don’t like. You can easily list the negative traits of those you don’t like. List the positive traits and see how your perspective changes.
11. Read one personal development article each day. Spend a little time learning more about personal development. Eventually, you’ll find an idea that really resonates with you. It only takes one good idea to change your life. 
12. Evaluate your day. Never allow a day to go to waste. Take a few minutes to list the good points and not-so-good points of each day. See what you can learn.
13. Embarrass yourself. One of the challenges we all share is caring too much about what others think. Intentionally embarrass yourself. Wear mismatched shoes to the store. Walk down the street with a shower cap on your head. Make a fool out of yourself and notice that no one cares.
14. Join a community. Humans need to be part of a community. It might be a group in your neighborhood, the local bridge club, or a softball team. Find a group of people you enjoy and spend time with them.

 Make self-improvement a regular part of your life. A few minutes each day can put you on the road to greater success and happiness. Make the most of your free time and avoid time-wasters. You can live the life you’ve only dreamed about so far. And you can get there one step at a time.