Six More Ways To Improve Your Life
There are many things about each of us that should be improved in order for us to live a happy and fulfilling life. We all wish to improve certain aspects of our life.Some of the changes that you ought to incorporate in your routine to improve your life are:
1) Try and get up a little early in the morning then our usual time. Even if we do get up half an hour earlier we will realize that we have so much more time to do our work. Start the day by meditating for 15 minutes. This will help us to connect with our inner self and bring in serenity and then we are ready to face the day’s challenges. An exercise schedule is equally important to get rid of our sluggishness. This routine of 20 minutes will work wonders for you. Eating a whole some and hearty breakfast is a necessity as it provides us with the days energy.
2) Keep a to do list so that when we get down to work we can ensure that the work which has to be completed first is done with. We should never procrastinate and put off something for another time or day. This increases our work load. Always work towards the goals we have set for our lives and every small achievement in this direction gives us loads and loads of satisfaction. The work completed and the schedule maintained gives an immense boost to our confidence level. Hence setting smart and achievable goals are very important.
3) On the way to work or going anywhere try and smile even at strangers. Smile is the best lifter of spirits and it makes the other person also feel that it is not such a bad day after all. Dressing up properly is another good spirit lifter. When we look good, we feel better equipped to face the world. When we hold a grudge against someone they own a rent free space in our mind. As soon as we forgive that person that place becomes empty and we feel so light. Apologizing to someone even if it was not your fault is also very endearing and it will lead to lessening the burden on our head.
4) Our attitude towards others, towards work, towards everything should be so positive such that nothing untoward can effect us. Changing our daily habits helps us achieve positive attitude. Our habits can be good or bad. Expecting anything from anyone is a bad habit. Develop good eating habits, good sleeping habits, have a good conversation with your family members, take part in all the small things of your family members life. This all leads to a positive attitude of the mind.
5) Read inspiring stories of great men and women who have achieved all that they had set to achieve by simple means. Learn from them and keep the tips in mind so as to use them as and when needed. The story of the Delaney sisters is really very inspiring.
6) Increase your own happiness by doing whatever pleases your and by keeping some part of the day for your self. Do whatever pleases you and whenever it pleases you.
There are many ways you can go about improving your life and I hope these six ways get you started on your path.
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Six Ways To Improve Your Life
Improving the quality of one’s life is a simple matter when taking into consideration the things that enrich it: health, happiness, and the ability to deal with stress. Determining how to specifically improve your life is a matter of considering universally truths and adapting them to fit an individual lifestyle. Here are six tips to attaining a higher quality of life that are accessible to almost anybody.
1. Give your body the food it needs. So many people spend their lives exhausted, fighting off colds, or battling with controlling their weight. Humans are evolutionarily designed to crave fats, sugars, and carbohydrates, but they are far more abundant today than they ever are in nature. Maintaining a diet that replenishes nutrients spent throughout the day, instead of simply filling the gap with sugars and caffeine, will result in not only increased energy, but better moods, healthier visage, and even a weight that befits activity levels. A nutritionist is not necessary to determine all of this, simply be smart; fruits and vegetables instead of beef jerky and donuts.
2. Walk or ride a bike whenever it is humanly possible. Everyone knows the physical benefits of exercise: increased circulation, better sleep, healthy weight. However, getting out of the car or train as often as possible has more far-reaching effects. Breathing in fresh air and feeling sun is a free shot of vitamins and a natural combatant to bad moods and will aid in improving your life. Walking down a street is a great way to be a part of the community one lives in, and riding a bike can lead to organizing a group of friends with similar hobbies.
3. Find a creative outlet. No person alive lives a stress-free existence. From the clothes we decide to wear to trying to afford the latest and greatest to keep up with the neighbors, there is stress from the instant of waking to the moment of sleep. Keeping all of this inside can lead to not only bad moods, relationship problems, and poor social interaction, it can cause serious physical diseases. Instead of carrying a load of stress, spend half an hour or as much time as is free on painting, writing, sketching, playing an instrument–anything that can put a voice to those problems. Even if the results are less than professional, the feelings of relief and pride in the work done will be reward enough. Over time, who knows–you could be the next Picasso.
4. Discover a group of friends or peers to share a hobby. Often people may find a hobby or some other activity that they find particularly enriching. But when they hit a wall or get stuck in a rut, they abandon it and never return. Forming or joining a community with the same interest will help to maintain an active interest and improve skills in that hobby while at the same time creating new, potentially life-long, interpersonal bonds.
5. Do not dwell on past mistakes. Everyone makes them. Moping around will only create a space wherein those bad moments never passed, but are continuously relived. Try to look forward and imagine a future where those mistakes are impossible to make again. Then make that future a reality one day at a time.
6. Remember that money and gadgets are fickle, but that there exist permanent pillars of happiness. Letting money and technology get the best of us is a product of this modern age. Always checking in on our friends and spending paychecks to have the hippest new gear can grind us down and make us forget about important things. Instead of buying a big screen television, plan a camping trip with family or friends. Instead of saving up for a faster laptop or a new iPod, plan a trip to somewhere never visited before. Make your own horizons and never look at anyone else’s.
Improving the quality of life is easy for anyone. One must only keep in mind that every new place visited, every new skill acquired and shared, every new friend made is an enriching experience more than any pay increase ever can be. The cliché calls it a rat race for a reason–escape it and evolve into more human goals. Plant a garden, eat more vegetables, take the dog out for a longer walk on sunny days. These are the simple secrets to happiness, and the rest takes care of itself.
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The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny by Robert Sharma is an inspirational and uplifting book. It truly is a modern day fable in which a wealthy and powerful man named Julian Mantle completely transforms his life and himself after experiencing a heart attack that almost kills him.
After Julian’s near death experience he realizes how truly unhappy he is despite his enormous outer success. He decides to sell everything he owns, including his Ferrari, and go on a mission to find happiness, peace, and purpose. On a visit to the Himalayas he comes onto contact with the “Sages Of Sivana”.
He finds a teacher who is willing to share with him all of their wisdom. The teacher uses a fable to illustrate the Seven Virtues to Julian, one that can be broken into seven distinct parts, each part representing another one of the Seven Virtues. The theory behind the book is that if someone lives according to these seven virtues they will have a happier and more fulfilling life. For each of the seven virtues there are a number of daily practices included in the book to help cultivate each virtue and improve your life.
The Seven Virtues are: master your mind, follow your purpose, practice kazien, live with discipline, respect your time, selflessly serve others, and embrace the present. This book discusses the importance of each of these virtues on the road to life mastery and outlines step by step how to reach these goals.
I definitely enjoyed this book. If you have read many books in the self-empowerment and improvement genre some parts of this book might feel like you have read them before. However, this book puts them all into a context that is very simple to understand. The fictional story format, as opposed to the non-fiction format of most books about improving your life, was a fresh way to look at ideas you may already be familiar with. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari packs a lot of positive, inspirational ideas into a book that is a relatively short and easy read. It would even be a good book to share with your spouse and children.
It is full of wisdom but the story is simple enough for fairly young children to grasp. I would absolutely recommend this book, especially to those people who are looking for a book to help them get more organized and accountable with their goal setting.