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 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.
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.
1. 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.
2. Close your eyes and breath deeply through your nose, whenever you feel stressed. 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.
3. List the good things you’ve got. A good mood makes life better. Imagine how it will affect your frame of mind to start seeing good things everywhere.
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…).
Pro Tip: Put Yourself First
Prioritize your own health and well-being. Release the daily stress with mini-habits: do something you enjoy, get a massage, take a relaxing bath or shower, get a facial, exercise, drink tea with ginger, listen to uplifting music.