Want a better life? Big changes are difficult, and take time, but there are many easy steps you can take right now. Take many steps, even the small ones, and pretty soon you're getting somewhere.
A Better Life Today
It's easy just to look, right? Start looking for specific ways to make your life better, and to improve yourself. Even if you don't accomplish anything immediately, you are preparing yourself. Thinking about change sets your mind and your motivation in motion.
You're not looking for an excuse to avoid difficult tasks, but you wouldn't expect to quit cigarettes, alcohol, caffeine and complaining all at once, right? Just make things better today, in any small way. Seeing results will motivate you for the more difficult steps.
Consider some of the following simple actions.
Write down some things you'd like to change. This makes the possibility more real, and gets your mind working. Eventually you can make this "wish list" into real goals, with a specific plan.
Close your eyes and breath deeply through your nose, whenever you feel stressed, this is a small habit seemingly too simple but adopting this one small habit can make a big change in your life. Stress is one of the biggest impediments to a better life. Simple stress-management techniques like this can help a lot, if you make them a habit.
List the good things you've got. This may seem trite, but a good mood makes life better. Ever buy a car and start seeing the same one everywhere? The same thing happens when you buy an idea. Imagine how it will affect your frame of mind to start seeing good things everywhere. Look for three specific things each day that you can write down at the end of the day that you can be grateful for, try to make these different each day. Or if you'd like to up your game search for each and every thing throughout your day that you have to be grateful for, I am grateful for my shoes, the sunshine, my car that gets me to the places I need to go, the ability to pay that bill, the food in my cupboard, the water that comes out of my tap, toilet paper. These things seem trivial but they are things many in this world do not have the privilege of which we often take for granted. Notice and be grateful and your life will seem better in an instant.
The point here is to get you thinking, and then taking whatever actions you can. If you thought about the whole process, you might never build a house, but it's easy to nail one board in place, right? (And then one more, and one more...)
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