There’s a ton of research around how setting habits can help us conserve energy because it reduces the number of decisions we have to make in a day. However, not all habits are created equal and so we’ve asked our community to tell us about the habits they have been most effective for them.

Kelly Mahana | Founder & CEO Authentic Recovery Homes

My unwavering desire to be successful and create something that will help others Read more>>

Patrick A Moore | ØttØ ™ | Photographer, Designer, and Producer

The best habit I have employed have been: being timely and constantly working on developing new skills and techniques.

Within the photography space, photographers themselves are notoriously late with edits and proofs. In lot of cases, people have to wait a month to see results. I aim to turnaround edits almost immediately (latest is within a week of the shoot). If I don’t get them done immediately then I have a tendency to forget them. So by being punctual with my edits and timeliness of turnaround I not only build a good workflow, but also, a great rapport with clients. Read more>>

Eric Rodriguez | Musician & Founder of PUSH Music and Arts

I think these are three great habits to help someone succeed at their own work:

1. While it might be a basic idea at its core, I think having a “To Do” list is a very powerful habit to build early in your personal endeavors. Having a written or typed list of what you must get done makes it so much easier to digest the amount of work you are able to do in a given time. There is nothing worse than the expanding doom you might feel under the weight of what you need to do, in turn making it harder to do anything. Avoid this issue by writing down what you need to get done, and picking something to do one step at a time. As you go cross things off or delete them from your notes app/word doc. It turns what might seem like many overwhelming tasks into manageable steps towards your goals. Read more>>

C.J. Milacci | Award-Winning Author

Focus, persistence, and application of knowledge are habits that have made a huge difference for me in my success. When I was first pursuing a career as an author, I would get overwhelmed by the deluge of information I was taking in. Which would lead to becoming scattered and stressed. There were so many things to do, different projects I could try to tackle, various marketing endeavors to explore—the list was endless. Read more>>

Jaime Foster | Chief Energy Officer

Over the years, I’ve picked up quite a few habits that have really made a difference in my journey to success. Let me share with you the key ones that have had the biggest impact: Read more>>