10 more tips to create a breakthrough in your life

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Here's 10 more tips for you to transform your life, at work and outside of it.

1. Take your time and give yourself some space. Give yourself time to think about things, and to come up with new ways of doing things, or just new things for you to do. Being busy all the time just prevents you from having the time for yourself, for working out the best things for you to be doing with your life. When you refuse to be hurried, you allow yourself to come

2. When you've reached your limit, keep going. If you're not dead yet, you haven't quite reached your limit... Breakthroughs happen when you pass your normal boundaries. And there's such an incredible feeling of satisfaction when you go past the point of wanting to give up. But you know you're stronger than that. Overcome those barriers.

3. Go on more trips away. The more you explore strange new worlds and meet strange new people, the more you'll come back a changed person. You'll open your mind to new ways of thinking, and you'll bring them back with you.

4. Really listen to everyone you can. You rarely learn by talking only about yourself. Opening yourself to learning of other people's experiences and their lessons can only help you learn new things, and you might even experience breakthroughs by getting value from something someone else has done or suggests.

5. Enjoy metaphors and analogies. Exploring poetry, philosophy, or books on business and self help can only help you explore more creative ways of thinking, which will lead to more breakthroughs in your life. It'll help you get out of the 'routine' of thinking that you've been dealing with for most of your life.

6. Run away from any kind of dogma. Dogma is an idea with a threat attached to it. "Follow this or else..." If you suffer from it, get rid of it. Kick it out. Try thinking the opposite. It's the greatest source of barriers to breakthrough thinking. Seek out ideas which help you grow and expand your mind instead.

7. Never try to be fashionable. All you're doing here is trying to be like others. What you should be doing is being who you are, not who others are pretending to be. Find your own fashion, and be happy with it. Don't care how others see you.

8. Learn from those who have succeeded. Don't try to to do the same as them, but try to understand how they achieved their success so you can use their methods to achieve your own success.

9. Dump your habits. If you're not getting what you want right now, it's because the habits you have just aren't working for you! Get rid of them - now. Let go of what hasn't worked, and allow yourself to develop new habits which will work.

10. Start now, wherever you are, whatever you're doing. There's no other way to create breakthroughs in your life than to decide, right now, to start a new way of life that will lead you onto the path you want to follow. Waiting for the right time or the right place is just procrastination. You're existing in a state of fear, of insecurity, when you avoid doing what you know you want to do now. So just do it.

Thanks to lifehack.org