Your brain flourishes with progress. Whenever you achieve success through your actions, your body releases a wonderful blend of feel-good hormones and chemicals. The great news is that even minor efforts can provide this rewarding sensation—you don’t have to spend hours in the gym or confront enormous tasks to experience a sense of accomplishment.

The practice of consistency brings tremendous progress. Whether implemented for personal or professional development, consistency offers assurance that one's efforts toward success will most often prevail.

Consider how things could work out better if you have a weekly plan for your life before you wake up on Monday morning. And don’t just plan your work-related items; plan everything else, too.

Discipline is the ability to make decisions and follow through with consistent action, regardless of how hard it gets or how long it takes, without changing your direction and mind.

Positive psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi describes flow as a state of complete immersion in an activity.