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Category: 🍏 Life
Tips & habits to make your life better
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Honesty Is The Best Policy
Telling the truth is always the best course of action, even when being dishonest would be easier or more useful.
Get Started
Get started by doing something for just a couple of minutes, because just getting started can often be the hardest part of many habits, tasks, or things you want to work on or get done.
- If you have to write something, just write a sentence.
- Then get up, get some water, stretch.
- Pat yourself on the back for getting started!
- Now do a little more: write a few more sentences.
- Get up, take a mental break (don’t go to another website), do a few pushups.
- Go back, do a bit more.
- Pretty soon, you’re in the flow of it.
Be Hopeful, Not Fearful
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. - William Ralph Inge
Boost Courage To Expand Life
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin
Try Just One More Time
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. - Thomas Edison
Simplify To The Essentials
"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential." - Bruce Lee
- If you want to improve your life then it’s tempting to want to add more.
- One problem with this may be that you don’t really have the time or energy to do more though.
- And so your efforts to improve become short-lived.
- Adding more and more just creates more stress and anxiety.
- Removing clutter and activities, tasks and thoughts that are not so important frees up time and energy for you to do more of what you really want to do.
- And as the clutter in your outer world decreases the clutter in your inner world also has a tendency to decrease.
- This has the added benefit of making it easier to actually enjoy whatever you are doing even more while you are doing it.
Bruce Lee’s top 7 fundamentals for getting your life in shape - Positivity Blog
Do Something Unfamiliar
You're going to be blessed if you find comfort in discomfort. Meaning, jump out there and do something unfamiliar. - Tyrese Gibson
Decide What Difference You'll Make
What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. - Jane Goodall
Pursue Meaning, Not Consuming
But we've discovered that owning things, and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose. - Jimmy Carter
Change Your Thoughts
Think positively and change your thoughts or mindset to a new way of thinking about something in order to improve your wellbeing and get things done.
- You are what you think.
- You cannot think negatively and have unlimited success.
- If you think negatively about business and finances [or leisure and relationships, or whatever else you want to change or improve in your life], your subjective experience will be a lack of both, whether or not that is true in reality.
- Discipline your mind towards the goals of what you want your productivity to look like and start putting the effort in right now to get there.
- Keep in mind that suffering over your own suffering doesn't work.
- Know the negative thought patterns you hold which require change and be deliberate in changing them.
8 Ways to radically increase your productivity - The Globe And Mail
Start By Doing Small Amounts
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - Confucius
Make A Decision Over Indecision
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt
Treat All People Equally
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. - Italian Proverb