Best Habits To Start Young and Make Your Adult Life Easier

DAY 3

The actions of your habits build up with negative and positive effects. Over time the effects become more noticeable and impactful in your daily life. I grew up with a lot of friends who became smokers at a young age. They would smoke socially as a habit then over the years turn into actual smokers themselves. This bad habit had led them to a dependance on smoking. I'm not going to rant about how smoking is bad, but I want you to know that a small habit can eventually turn into a big part of your life.

Just like a bad habit, a good habit that is practiced over a long time leads to significant results; it's like a snowball effect. To be able to practice a habit for a long time you need - surprise! surprise! time! Where do you get all this time? When you are young of course! Here are 3 awesome habits to start when you are younger. They carry on to your adult life and make it a ton easier.

1. Exercise and Healthy Eating

When you are busy with work, relationships, and other commitments in life it is easy to put off exercise and eating healthy. Realise the importance of habitual exercise when you are young so that you are fit and healthy as an adult. Exercising helps you build discipline and fend off laziness. Being active allows you to ease into old age with less problems. A simple routine such as 20 pushups, squats, and crunches can in time lead to big results. Find what type of exercise suits you best and stick with it. It's not all just running and lifting weights! Theres rock-climbing, martial-arts, fencing, basketball, soccer, hiking, etc. Get out and find what makes you active!

Eating healthy is just as important because it makes your exercise more effective. All that junk food adds up, and when you reach adulthood you might be facing weight issues. Start the habit of eating healthy and you'll feel more lively. There are more ways to eat healthy than with just salads and boiled foods. Look up different recipes and soon you would be loving it, I guarantee it. 

Many chronic diseases develop due to bad eating habits. Diabetes, heart disease, and cancer - you've all heard about these infamous diseases. They are the leading cause of deaths in the first world countries. Healthy eating and exercising is a significant habit that you need to develop so that you avoid these health implications when you're older.

2. Time Management

People usually put off what they need to do until the deadline. They think that doing things earlier requires more effort. It's actually quite the opposite, it requires the same if not less effort to get something done earlier than to wait until the deadline. Think about it. When you manage your time you are more focused on your tasks and you build momentum which increases your productivity. Things get done quicker when you don't stop to procrastinate. It's like you're running, but you stop every once in a while when you're procrastinating. You get to your goal slower and you need to build momentum each time you stop.

Hard workers set a time to work and play. When they work they really work! A lot of good results will come from managing your time. You will learn more because you're setting a time and learning faster. You will reduce stress because you are working before the deadline. Managing your time will also lead to higher quality work. As an adult you want all these perks to become the successful person that you want to be.

Make it habit to manage your time for effective periods of productivity. Take time to set aside during your days to focus on the given task and only on that task. This will also build discipline and when you reach adulthood you would be miles ahead of everyone else. Everyone has 24 hours in a day, but those who use these 24 hours more effectively go farther than the rest.

3. Read and Take Notes

Get into the habit of reading because it is so rewarding. Read for the enjoyment of it and read to immerse yourself in knowledge. There are so many books out there with literally thousands upon thousands of different content. All the content you found on the internet - the articles, the blogs, forum posts, etc... can be traced back to books! Books have been the root source of information for thousands of years and is still the primary source of information. Reading on the internet can lead you to the right direction, but if you want more in-depth insight books are your best friend.

Knowledge can be accumulated so you build a bigger pool over time. When you reach adulthood you want to be able to walk through life with ease. Through reading you will find out how to walk through life with ease. A habit so small such as reading 10 pages of a self help book a day can have a significant positive impact on how you act in your adult life. 

Take notes of important points to remember what you have read. It is good practice because you want to filter out the stuff that you can apply and the stuff that you can generally forget about. You won't agree with everything that you read, but you can take the useful stuff and continue for your pursuit of knowledge. As the saying goes - "knowledge is power". Starting this habit while you're young can make you a very "powerful" person in the future.