Seven Ways to Improve Your Professional Results

In this week's issue of Unleash Your Potential, I published an article with this title. When I wrote it, I decided that I would use those seven suggestions as the basis of my blog posts until the New Year.

So maybe the title of this post should have been One Way to Improve Your Professional Results, because well, it only includes one way.

You'll have to come back each of the next seven days to read all the suggestions. Or, you can get a condensed version from the article here.

My first suggestion is . . .

Create more energy in your life.

The starting point for greater results is greater energy. Greater energy will allow you to be more productive and is required to apply any of the other tactics on this list. Coincidentally, energy often is cited as a major reason why people don't make positive change in their professional life as well.

Beyond these reasons, create more energy in your professional life can be a self-perpetuating process. As you have more energy, and share it with others, it serves as a postivie virus, "infecting" others and raising their energy as well.

Here are three simple suggestions will get you on the path to greater energy:

- eat better - consume healthier, more natural foods in smaller quantities;
- exercise more - build your stamina and strength; and
- sleep smarter - develop a "sleep routine"

I'm not an expert in any of these areas, so rather than giving specific advice for each, I'll encourage you to investigate each yourself.

But don't investigate too long; instead, find an idea in each area, and put them to work. The good news is that each of these new habits will create greater energy in your life, and bring many other benefits too.