25 Tiny Habits That Could Totally Change Your Life

Research, as well as common sense and personal experience, is showing us that small steps get us to far away places. The key is to consistently take those small steps in the same direction. Building a big, life-changing habit is difficult: it’s hard to keep the willpower going long enough to see change. But building a tiny habit? Here are 25 tiny habits you could add into your life. Tiny Habits for Better Physical Health 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Tiny Habits for Better Mental Health 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Tiny Habits for Better Productivity and Work 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Tiny Habits for Better Relationships 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Tiny Habits for a Better Community and Environment 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Featured photo credit: somegeekintn via flickr.com Set a Goal For Yourself “I’ll keep making efforts to treat my loved ones well.”

3 Powerful Things You Can Start Doing Today to Improve Your Self-Confidence “Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.”Peter T. Mcintyre “When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the most common questions I get via email is how to increase your confidence in yourself. So this week I’d simply like to share three things you can do to increase your self-confidence starting today. 1. Eleanor Roosevelt once said: “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. But an important thing about stepping outside of your comfort zone is that you don’t have to go all in at once in many cases. Instead, think about how you can move in small steps and slowly towards what you want. Just for today I will try [insert something you want to try]! You just have to do it today.

How and Why You Should Stop Changing Others By trying or wanting to change others, you’re setting yourself up for failure. You were put into this world to make a mark for yourself, not for others. The key to resist the urge to change others is simply to focus upon yourself. Here are some ways to do that: 1. You are here in this life to be the best you can be. 2. Start by identifying one thing about you that is an absolute strength. 3. What is your passion? 4. One of the worst things you can do to yourself is wish that the people in your life were different, or had made different choices. 5. Instead of looking for ways to manipulate others to change, look at them with gratitude. 6. Acceptance brings peace. 7. The best way to deflect drama is to mind your own business. 8. Every so often go back and look at the list you made of your passions. 9. Part of accepting others as they are, as well as accepting your own life situation is to have patience and empathy for others. 10.

How to Be More Interesting When Meeting New People Four Words to Seem More Polite In a touching Medium post a few days ago, the writer and programmer Paul Ford shared what he thinks is the secret to his politeness. In conversations with new acquaintances, Ford asks plenty of questions and lets the other person do the talking. He tries not to ask what they do for a living, but if it comes to that, he responds to their job description—whatever it is—with, “Wow. That sounds hard.” “Nearly everyone in the world believes their job to be difficult,” he writes. I once went to a party and met a very beautiful woman whose job was to help celebrities wear Harry Winston jewelry. What Ford describes is known, in research circles, as empathy. But we do. Empathy helps people behave more generously, but some are worried that our society, with its Personal Brands and Snapchats, is losing this crucial characteristic. There are multiple ideas of what it means to be polite.