Producer: Priyanka Das Editor: Aparna Singh
Atomic Habits, the famous book on habits by James Clear, defines habits as behaviour which is more or less repeated in an automatic way.
Neuroscientists have traced our habit-making behaviours to a part of the brain called the basal ganglia, which forms the codes for our brain and these codes are stored as pattern-recognising phenomena.
First, we make habits and then, habits make us. Habits are what we are. They are the code of life for an individual.
Ideally, the wake up time for those who want to achieve success in life is half an hour before sunrise.
There are five core needs that form the basis for human behavioural motivation - physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualisation.
Meditation is one of the best ways to de-stress and de-clutter yourself. Pranayam is a simple yet highly effective habit of meditation can give your day a great start.
Food is equated with medicine and eating healthy is a prerequisite for success.
Efficiency and exercise are two sides of the same coin. Successful people do one or the other kind of exercise daily.
When we live in harmony with the nature and other creatures, we perform better as we are less stressful and more open to others.
One of the best habits of success is inculcating the habit of being focused. Positive psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi describes this as a flow state which is complete immersion in an activity.