Five Easy Ways to Make Your Life Better for 10/27/20
How to Overcome Self-Doubt – Secrets to Believing In Yourself
(Tanuj Sarva | INYK | 1175 words)
Self-doubt can hold us back from achieving our goals. Common reasons for self doubt are:
- Comparing ourselves to others
- Being our own worst critic
- Overthinking things
- Fear of failure
Some ways to overcome this are:
- Make a decision within 5 seconds
- Direct all your energy in one direction instead of splitting your focus
- Accept that progress isn’t linear
- Be okay with mistakes – you’re still learning
10 Incredibly Easy Ways to Live Life Better
(Steven Ray Marks | Self Helping Yourself | 2100 words)
Ways to live better that don’t take any effort, willpower, or time-commitment, including:
- Write down your goals every day
- Turn off notifications
- Don’t take one-size-fits-all advice
- Realize that nobody has it all figured out
- Be grateful for the modern world
- Assign names to your problems and negative feelings
How to Become an Optimist: 3 Daily Habits
(Henrik Edberg | Positivity Blog | 525 words | Subscribe)
To become more of an optimist:
- Ask yourself questions to help see the optimistic viewpoint
- Get optimistic support from the world around you
- Start your day in an optimism creating way
How to Change a Habit Using This One Simple Rule
(Dean Yeong | deanyeong.com | 775 words)
Yeong suggests that to change habits, start small, and do slightly more each day.
I write a lot about habits. I even named my weight loss book after them. I think this advice might be a bit oversimplified, but it’s certainly a good place to start.
Your Guide to Making Big Decisions
(Sunny Fitzgerald | TheLily | 1850 words)
If you’re struggling with a difficult decision:
- Assess the moment
- Make sure you’re in the right state of mind
- Put time aside to really think about it
- Get advice, especially from people with different points of view
- Do the best with what you’ve got
- Have hope
I found this in Tuseet Jha’s Happier Today newsletter.
See also: Eight Things to Consider When Evaluating Risk
Bonus Boost
Celebrate Your Diet
(Steven Ray Marks | Self Helping Yourself | 900 words)
Your diet will be much more successful if you see it as an act of joy, and not a miserable burden.
You need a sense of pride and excitement to reward yourself for good eating decisions, in order to turn those good decisions into an automatic habit you’ll be able to keep for life.
If you’re dieting out of a sense of shame, you’ll make yourself miserable. You’ll be motivated to quit so you can stop feeling that shame and misery.
But if you focus on excitement for what your future body will give you, then all your motivation will be to keep going, and to keep that body once you achieve it.
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