Tips & habits to make your life better
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Live your life by being true to yourself and following your dreams and passions, in order to make your life and the lives of others better and happier, instead of only doing things that other people want or expect you to do.
- I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. This was the most common regret of all.
- When people realise that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled.
- Most people had not honoured even a half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or not made.
- It is very important to try and honour at least some of your dreams along the way.
- From the moment that you lose your health, it is too late.
- Health brings a freedom very few realise, until they no longer have it.
Top 5 regrets of the dying - Huffington Post
- Party - Electronic, Dance, Dance Rock, Ska, Disco, Electronica, House, EDM
- Energy - Hard Rock, Blues Rock, Alt Rock, Punk Rock, Classic Rock, Metal
- Groovy - Rhythm & Blues, Funk, Hip Hop, Rap, World, Latin, Psych Rock, Jam Rock
- Lively - Adult Rock, Folk, Pop, Country, Britpop, New Wave, Progressive, Art
- Chill - Downtempo, Trip Hop, Chillout, Lofi, Jazz, Soul, Psychedelic, Dream
- Relax - Singer, Songwriter, Ambient, Easy, Blues, Lounge, Soft Rock, Soft Pop
Give people sincere praise about something they have done well or that you appreciate about them before giving them negative feedback or an idea for something they could change or do differently.
- "Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise."
- One well known strategy for feedback is the “criticism sandwich,” popularized by the above quote from cosmetics maven Mary Kay Ash.
- In the sandwich, you begin with praise, address the problem, and follow up with more praise.
- In fact, the more of the conversation you can frame positively, the more likely your recipient is to be in the right frame of mind to make the change you’re looking for.
How to Give and Receive Feedback at Work: The Psychology of Criticism - Buffer
- News - Browsing, Posts, Stories, Articles, Reports
- Notes - Reading, Blogs, Essays, Writings, Quotes
- Views - Viewing, Images, Comics, Music, Podcasts
- Shows - Watching, Videos, Jokes, Movies, Shows
- Infos - Checking, Schedules, Times, Stats, Updates
- Shops - Getting, Stores, Guides, Reviews, Picks
Spend some time in solitude to think about and create ideas, make plans or goals, and come up with solutions to solve your problems.
- Like many inventors and creative types, Nikola Tesla was an advocate for solitude when creating and working.
- Most famously, he's quoted as saying "The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude.
- No big laboratory is needed in which to think.
- Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind.
- Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born."
Nikola Tesla's Best Productivity Tricks - Lifehacker
"Don't criticize, condemn, or complain." - Dale Carnegie
- Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself.
- Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.
- Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them.
- Let's try to figure out why they do what they do.
- That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness.
- "To know all is to forgive all."
How To Win Friends And Influence People - Goodreads
Keep a dated list of tasks and projects you have completed and random things you have done, because looking back on your achievements or even little events from your life may provide a sense of accomplishment and purpose.
- There's something to be said for seeing how much you've gotten done at the end of the day.
- You know how satisfying it is to cross out items on your to do list, and then look back at the list to see everything you completed?
- A "done" list, or "anti-to-do list" as Marc Andreessen calls it, works in a similar fashion: you simply take note of each thing you get done during the day.
- Start out with the date and just list your "done" items underneath.
- Not only will this help you review your productivity at the end of each day and make you feel better about what you got done, but it can be really useful to keep around as a work log.
- You might want to look back in weeks or months to come to see what you were working on or how long a project took to complete.
Clever uses for plain text files that can increase your productivity - Lifehacker
Choose to be happy with your current situation and life, as research has shown happiness may come down to your attitude and perception, not our faulty estimation of what we think we want, even big changes like getting a dream job, goal, partner, or money.
- Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we'll be miserable if we don't get what we want.
- Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don't go as planned.
The Surprising Science Of Happiness - Dan Gilbert - YouTube
Write down a list of your goals and dreams, because writing thoughts and ideas down is the first step to making them come to life.
- A list of your short and long-term goals can be a great motivator, as well as a trigger list to help generate new projects.
- I also like to have a list of areas of focus, the different roles that I play, each of which comes with a different set of tasks and goals.
12 Lists that help you get things done - Lifehack.org
- Work - Productivity, Create, Documents, Mail, Calendar, Notes, Develop, Images
- Read - Reference, Dictionary, Education, Learning, Books, News, Magazines, Blogs
- Live - Communication, Phone, Chat, Social, Groups, Forums, Camera, Microphone
- Play - Entertainment, Music, Movies, Shows, Television, Videos, Radio, Podcasts
- Fact - Information, Database, Maps, Weather, Shopping, Money, Downloads, FTP
- Tool - Utilities, System, Terminal, Automation, Clocks, Home, Calculators, Converts
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.
Ways to do what you don’t want to do - Zen Habits
"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
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
