10 ways to optimize yourself for success

1- Time

Open the calendar on your phone and push aside all activities on every day of your selection. Take no matter day you've got chosen and do the items that you just need to try to to and not should do. there's a distinction. Life is just too short to fill the calendar with conferences, sales calls, and events. attempt filling it with things you enjoy too.

2- Call in sick

If you’ve done the higher than and searched your calendar however can’t notice every day, call in sick. take care to not tell anyone but you’re leader that you’re doing it though. choosing to tell other defeats the purpose as a result of they will want your attention. Please take today for yourself and do precisely what it's that you simply wish to try and do.

3- Treat yourself

Keep it within your means but treat yourself to something that brings you tremendous joy. You work hard for your money and as much as all the experts advise against it, go and spend some of it. Buy whatever makes you feel good. If it’s a comic book, go and buy one. If it’s a pedicure, take those shoes off and sit down. It doesn’t matter what it is, just go and buy it.

4- Positive affirmations

Give yourself that much needed pep talk. You know the one. The one that starts with “I am great and I can do whatever I want” and ends with “And I know in my heart all of this to be true.” Not only will it change your trajectory but it will also drastically improve a bad mood.

5- Go for a walk

If it seems simple, it’s because it is. Go for a walk. Get out into nature and see the world. While you’re out there, smell the smells, listen to the sounds, and feel the wind as it passes by. Some of the most enjoyable things in life are often free and readily available. This is one of them. Oh, and if you’re really looking to treat yourself, do this in the rain. You’ll be stunned by how much it will change you.

6 - Spend sometime listening to music
Music is the universal language and the looking glass into our souls. Technology allows you to play the exact song you’re looking for at the exact moment you’re looking for it. Use this to your advantage. Remember, only you know what that song is so go ahead and load it up. From there, prepare to be taken away to a place that only you know.

7- Read something

If music isn’t your thing, no problem. Unplug from the world and curl up with your favorite book. You know the one. The one that you’ve read more than 5 times and each time that you pick it up, it’s impossible to put down. That one. Pick it up again and get ready to immerse yourself in a place unlike your own.

8- Donate to a charity

Nothing releases a feel-good chemical concoction quite like doing something for someone else. Donating will instantly supply you with a dose of serotonin that will not only change your mood, but also give you that warm fuzzy feeling for days.

9- Take a nap

Is there any wonder that the highest performers take naps during the day? And I’m not talking CEO’s. I’m talking about children and babies. These little people are learning so much on a day-to-day level that their body commands that they take a nap.

If you don’t quite believe how much the nap helps, just look at how different they view the world right before and right after a nap. A word of caution comes with the nap, however. Be sure that when you awake, you don’t feel guilty. It’s well deserved.

10 - Surround yourself

Seek out those who look to empower you and will speak positively about you. Jim Rohn is often quoted as saying “You’re The Average Of The Five People You Spend The Most Time With.” When life is overwhelming, surround yourself with those who you look up to and let them pick you up. And pick you up they will. All I ask is that you be there on the day that someone needs you to pick them up.