Five Easy Ways to Make Your Life Better for 9/20/20
2 Most Powerful Ways to Remember Everything You Learn
(Thomas Oppong | Entrepreneur’s Handbook | 900 words)
We forget 90% of what we learn. This is a normal, healthy function of the brain, filtering out useless information to save room for the important stuff. When there’s information you do want to remember, these techniques are helpful:
- Spacing – Relearning the information over time. That signals to your brain that it is something important to be retained.
- The 50/50 Rule – Spend half your time learning, and half your time sharing or explaining what you’ve learned.
Related: Accepting Your Memory is Unreliable Will Make You Happier
17 Incredibly Easy Ways to Save Money While Shopping
(Steven Ray Marks | Self Helping Yourself | 1925 words)
A series of tips that can help you save hundreds of dollars a month without any effort, time-commitment, or sacrifice. Some highlights:
- How to make razor cartridges last for months.
- Don’t have brand loyalty.
- Check the per-unit cost when shopping.
- Use Instacart to compare grocery prices, even if you aren’t ordering from Instacart.
- How to (legally) get eBooks and audiobooks for free.
7 Simple Habits to Overcome Nervousness
(Henrik Edberg | Positivity Blog | Subscribe | 1175 words)
If you allow nervousness to overcome you, you’ll perform poorly at whatever it is you’re nervous about. Instead:
- Prepare, if possible.
- Ask yourself what’s the worst that could realistically happen.
- Visualize in a positive way.
- Slow down and breathe with your belly.
- Pretend the person you’re meeting is already a friend.
- Remember people don’t think about you that much.
- Tell yourself you’re excited.
20 Little Things that Secretly Make You Unhappy
(Tanuj Sarva | Iynk | 1,725 words)
A list of mistakes you might be making that are sabotaging your happiness. Once you identify any that apply to you, some simple awareness can go a long way toward breaking the habit. These include:
- Believing everyone should play by your rules.
- Waiting for your dreams to come true to be happy.
- Not making time for the right things.
- Holding grudges.
- Being a perfectionist.
- Caring too much about what others think.
- Playing the victim card.
- Thinking you don’t deserve happiness.
3 Five Minute Confidence Boosters
(Anouare Abdou | The Ladders | 750 words)
To pump up your own confidence:
- Collect evidence of your skills and abilities.
- Visualize your future self, after you’ve achieved greater success.
- Use bridge thoughts to connect where you are now to where you want to be.
Bonus Boost
Why I Don’t Believe in Cheat Days
(Steven Ray Marks | Self Helping Yourself | 750 words)
A “cheat day” in a diet disrupts the habit-building process, and reinforces the notion that eating right is a burden while eating like a drunk grizzly bear is a celebration.
Needing a cheat day is a sign that your entire weight loss strategy is flawed.
Instead, you should build the lifelong habit of making good decisions about what you eat. And sometimes good decisions can include eating unhealthy things, as long as you do it in moderation.
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