As we know, everything is interconnected: if you lower your head and slouch, you will immediately feel insecure. But even when you’re in a bad mood, if you lift your head, straighten your shoulders, and smile, everything around you changes and you become the life of the party.
- Home
- Happiness
- Learning or Self-Development
- Finances
- Time Management
- Health
- Relationships
- Social Life
To change your life (in any direction), you need very little — just start taking action. But this “just” isn’t always so simple. Sometimes we know what needs to be done, but those actions seem frightening. And sometimes we have neither a clear plan nor an understanding of how to create one. Perhaps these 60 little steps will help you finally start doing something. And even if after 20 steps you realize this isn’t your plan, you’ll already be ready to create your own plan. The eyes are afraid, but the hands do the work?
Home
1. Create your own “Home Decluttering Calendar,” distributing the tidying up of various home areas across different days.
- Day 1: Sort through magazines.
- Day 2: Sort through DVDs.
- Day 3: Sort through books.
2. Live by the mantra: “Everything has its place, and put everything in its place.” Try following these 4 rules for all 10 days:
- If you take something — put it back in its place afterward.
- If you open something — close it.
- If you drop something — pick it up.
- If you take something off — hang it back in its place.
3. Walk around your home and find 100 things that need to be fixed or slightly adjusted. For example, change a light bulb, patch a hole in the wallpaper, screw in a new outlet, etc.
Happiness
4. Finally follow the advice that psychologists from all countries and with completely different views keep repeating — write down on a piece of paper 5 to 10 things you are grateful for in your life every day.
See also: The Practice of Gratitude
When a person experiences Gratitude, a powerful flow of unique vibration emanates from within, which is just one step below Love.
5. Create a list of 20 small things you enjoy doing and make sure you do at least one such thing each day for the next 100 days. For example, eat your lunch on a bench in the park, walk your dog in the park in the evening, paint with watercolors for an hour, etc.
6. Keep a journal of your mental chatter — that is, write down your thoughts and feelings that arise throughout the day. For example, how many times a day did you blame yourself for something, how critical you are of others, how many times a day positive thoughts came to mind, etc.
7. Over the next 100 days, try to have a good laugh at least once a day.
Learning or Self-Development
8. Choose a complex book that you still haven’t dared to read but have wanted to. Read it cover to cover over 100 days.
See also Advanced Spiritual Practices
An important practice is reading and analyzing spiritual literature. You need to read and deeply contemplate classic and modern texts of a spiritual, philosophical, and psychological nature, as well as analyze them according to a specific scheme…
9. Learn something new every day. For example, the name of a flower, the capital of a distant country, the name of a dog breed you like, etc. In the evening, you can review in your mind everything new you learned during the day, grab a dictionary, and learn a new word.
10. Stop complaining for the next 100 days. Negative thoughts lead to negative results. Every time you feel like complaining, try to stop yourself.
11. Set your alarm one minute earlier each subsequent day for 100 days. Try to get up immediately after the alarm goes off, open the windows, and do some light exercise. After 100 days, you will be waking up 1.5 hours earlier without much effort.
12. For the next 100 days, keep “Morning Pages” — a simple stream of consciousness in the morning that you write down in a special notebook. This should be the first thing you do after waking up.
13. For the next 100 days, try to focus your attention on the thoughts, words, and images of who you want to become and what you want to achieve.
Finances
14. Create a budget. Write down every single penny you spend over the 100 days.
15. Search for useful financial advice online and choose 10 tips. Try to follow them for the next 100 days. For example, going to the store with a limited amount of cash and no credit card, running multiple errands in one trip to save on gas, etc.
16. Pay in stores only with paper money and put the remaining change into a piggy bank after purchases. After 100 days, count how much you have saved.
17. For 100 days, do not buy anything you don’t truly need (meaning fairly large purchases). Use this money to pay off a loan (if you have one) or put it into a six-month deposit account.
18. For 100 days, dedicate at least 1 hour a day to finding or creating an additional source of income.
Time Management
19. For the next 100 days, carry a notebook with you everywhere. Write down every idea and thought that comes to mind, make your to-do list, and jot down new appointments literally on the go right after calls.
20. Track how you use your time for 5 days. Use the information you’ve gathered to create your “time budget”: the percentage of total time spent on the things you do every day. For example, house cleaning, commute time, rest, etc. Make sure you stick to your budget for the next 95 days.
21. Identify a low-priority task that you can skip for 100 days, and replace it with something truly important.
22. Identify 5 ways your time is “leaking” and limit that time for the next 100 days. For example, don’t watch TV for more than 1.5 hours, don’t spend more than 1.5 hours a day on social media, etc.
23. For the next 100 days, give up multitasking and focus on just one important task per day.
24. For the next 100 days, plan your day the evening before.
25. For the next 100 days, do the most important tasks from your to-do list first, and then everything else.
26. Over the next 14 weeks, do a weekly review. During your weekly check-in, answer these questions:
- What did you achieve?
- What went wrong?
- What did you do right?
27. For the next 100 days, tidy up your desk at the end of each day, sorting through papers and office supplies. So that every morning, a clean desk awaits you.
See also: Say “YES” to a New Life
To plant something new, you need to clear out the clutter of the old… which means a major cleanup is ahead!
28. Make a list of all the promises and commitments you’ve taken on for the next 100 days, then take a red pen and cross out everything that doesn’t bring you joy or bring you closer to your goals.
29. For the next 100 days, before switching from one task to another during the day, ask yourself whether this is the best use of your time and resources.
Health
30. Losing about half a kilo of weight requires burning 3,500 calories. If you reduce your daily calorie intake by 175, you’ll lose about 2.5 kg over 100 days.
31. For the next 100 days, eat vegetables 5 times a day.
32. For the next 100 days, eat fruit 3 times a day.
33. Choose one of your favorite but not-so-healthy dishes and go cold turkey on it for 100 days.
34. For the next 100 days, eat from smaller plates to control your portion sizes.
35. For the next 100 days, drink 100% juice instead of substitutes with lots of sugar.
36. For the next 100 days, drink only water instead of soda.
37. Make a list of 10 light and healthy breakfasts.
38. Make a list of 20 light and healthy meals you can have for lunch and dinner.
39. Make a list of 10 light and healthy snacks.
40. Use your healthy meal lists to plan your meals a week ahead. Eat this way for the next 14 weeks.
41. For the next 100 days, keep a food journal to see if you’re straying from your planned menu.
42. For the next 100 days, spend at least 20 minutes each day on physical exercise.
43. For the next 100 days, always carry a pedometer and try to walk 10,000 steps a day.
44. Set up your scale and hang a chart in your bathroom. At the end of each of the 14 weeks, weigh yourself and record your weight loss (or gain), changes in waist measurement, etc.
45. For the next 100 days, set a reminder on your watch or computer that repeats every hour to drink water.
46. For the next 100 days, meditate, breathe, visualize — make this your daily ritual to calm your mind.
Relationships
47. For the next 100 days, find something positive in your partner every day and write it down.
48. For the next 100 days, keep an album of the things you do together, try scrapbooking. At the end of your experiment, give your partner the finished album and a list of all the positive things you observed over these 100 days.
49. Identify 3 actions you will take every day for the next 100 days to strengthen your relationship. These could be saying “I love you” or hugging every morning.
Social Life
50. Communicate every day for the next 100 days with someone new. This could be your neighbor you’ve never spoken to before, a comment on a blog where you’ve never written before, a new acquaintance on social media, and so on.
51. For the next 100 days, focus on connecting with people you admire and respect.
52. For the next 100 days, if someone offends or upsets you, take a minute to think before you respond.
53. For the next 100 days, don’t even think about passing final judgment until you’ve heard both sides.
54. For the next 100 days, try to do at least one good deed a day, no matter how small.
55. For the next 100 days, praise everyone who deserves it.
56. For the next 100 days, practice active listening. When your conversation partner is speaking, listen to them instead of rehearsing your response in your head; ask clarifying questions to make sure you heard everything correctly, and so on.
57. Practice empathy for the next 100 days. Before judging someone, try to see things from their point of view. Be curious, learn more about the person you’re talking to (their interests, beliefs, etc.).
58. For the next 100 days, live your own life and don’t compare yourself to anyone.
59. For the next 100 days, look for the good intentions in the actions of those around you.
60. For the next 100 days, constantly remind yourself that everyone is doing the best they can.
Source: lifehacker