10 small changes that will improve your life.

if you're looking to make huge improvements in your life it doesn't matter what you do every once in a while it's what you do every day that makes the difference and sometimes the simplest nudges and behavior are all it takes to make radical changes in your future so in this video i want to share with you the 10 smallest changes that i've made in my life that have led to the greatest impact on my well-being my health my relationships my mental health as well as my work some of these things take less than 10 seconds

to do but if you do them every day you'll see a compound effect in your return let's get into it all right so change number one if you're trying to wake up early in the morning place your alarm on the opposite end of your bedroom now this is a very simple change but i found that as i've tried to become more and more of a morning person over the past decade this one small change has helped me out so much this way when you wake up in the morning you're not simply going to reach over

to your phone grab it and hit the snooze button every 10 minutes for two hours instead you actually have to get out of bed to turn your alarm off so the next one really relates to creating work-life balance and it's add one personal item to your to-do list especially if that to-do list like mine usually are are filled with nothing but work-related tasks it's so easy to get caught up in the busyness of work to continue to be so ambitious that we neglect our personal lives that we're working eight ten plus hour days and we're

neglecting the things that truly matter in our lives and so i add things like go to the gym make a batch of smoothies call mom those are the things that i know if i don't write them on my to-do list i'll continue to put them off into the future or i might completely forget about them because i'm so busy with work but when i go to check my to-do list throughout the day i'm reminded of what i really shouldn't be putting off and what i should be doing today so this next one relates to your

work life in your email inbox create a folder called praise and whenever you have a boss or a client that gives you positive feedback drag and drop that email into the praise folder this really serves two purposes one it can help you when you're feeling self-doubt and you're feeling like you're maybe not worth it when you're questioning your path it's great to be able to go back to these things but it also serves a really practical function for those who have a typical nine to five job and this is feedback that i got from my

wife many years ago that i think is absolutely brilliant there will be times many times where you'll find yourself in a position where you need to either back your performance prove your performance to either a superior like a boss or perhaps if you run your own business or you're a freelancer to new clients and what acts as a really credible proof point is when you have quotes from people that you've worked with that have worked with you that say how amazing you are how you're the best worker in the world how no one else should

hire anyone else except for you and yes you are worth a million dollars a year um you get paid a million dollars a year you don't the next change i recommend you make is to carry a water bottle with you everywhere you go now this one so simple but it's that nudge that change in your environment that continues to remind you to continue to stay hydrated to drink water this is one of those things that so many people neglect we're supposed to be drinking eight eight ounce glasses of water every day i know when i

was younger i definitely did not meet that ever since i started carrying a water bottle close by when i go to the gym when i go to the cafe when i used to be able to go at least now when i'm just at my desk when i'm going around the house if i have my water bottle close by it's that constant reminder to stay hydrated to drink water and also one of the best things is that actually curbs cravings for snacks a lot of times we think that we're hungry when in fact we're thirsty and

so by drinking water by staying hydrated all day i snack much less often which is a great bonus the most helpful relationship advice that i've followed myself over the past decade has been never go to bed angry at your partner now this is much easier said than done especially if you're having an argument late into the night it's so easy to just go to bed fuming and mad at the person that you love but if you continue to do that if you do that day after day it's so easy to wake up in the morning

and ignore the problem to brush it to the side but that's only going to build up to be a much bigger problem in the future yes we get in a funk sometimes and sometimes we say things we regret or we just like need some space but if you allow that to bridge over a night and you wake up the next day and it's unsolved and unresolved and you haven't talked about it then you have given you have laid the foundations to give each other permission to not be happy in this relationship so the next one

is really about healthy eating and for me that means investing in high quality low processed organic food now if you can afford it i highly recommend you invest in the quality of food that you buy at the grocery store so whenever i can i try to get grass-fed cage free organic non-processed whatever i can to improve the quality of the ingredients which eventually improves the quality of my life there were two documentaries that really got me interested in healthy eating and really turning the dial on how much i was investing in healthy foods and also

really knowing what foods i should be investing in and those documentaries were fed up fed fed up yep that's it and food inc those are the two documentaries that i watched highly recommend you check them out yourself now when it comes to eating healthy there is another side to the coin and that's make sure that you don't bring junk food into your house at least limit the amount of junk food that you bring into your home that might mean alcohol beer it could be snacks or candy i know from my personal experience if i have

beer in the fridge i'm gonna drink it i'm probably gonna have a beer or two every night if it's there and if i have snacks and candy and chocolate and ice cream in the house then i'm probably gonna be consuming that way more often and when given the option between preparing a healthy organic meal and simply snacking on some ice cream i'm probably going to choose the option which is easier and tastes a lot better and so in order to really eat healthy and to really be mindful about what i'm consuming i limit what i

bring into the house to begin with this has by far made one of the biggest changes on my diet to date now that's not to say that you can't buy cookies and you can't buy ice cream and you can never drink alcohol again i certainly do bring these things into my home but i do it with moderation leave your phone on silent and place it upside down at all times now this is common etiquette already if you're going out to hang out with family or friends if you're with anybody else you keep your phone on

silent you turn it upside down put it on the table better yet you keep it in your pocket out of sight now this is something we do for other people so we should also do it for ourselves if we're working at our computer we should really be intent on being focused on that work when our phones are right side up we see a notification come in it's impossible there's no willpower in the world that will prevent you from picking up that phone texting and browsing for 30 or 40 minutes at a time when you add

it up all of these micro distractions throughout your day eventually you're far less productive than you would have been if you would have simply remained focused on your task one other thing i do before i go to bed besides putting my alarm on the other side of the room is to write out a physical to-do list and put it next to that alarm this helps out in a number of ways and the biggest thing it does for me is it helps me to stay motivated i have a more unconventional work life than most people i

don't have a nine to five finding that motivation and having a structure and a plan for your day becomes vital nobody's gonna do it for you so you need to do it for you need to do it yourself and so writing out this to-do list putting it next to my alarm when i wake up in the morning i see that i see the change in my environment i see the to-do list i'm reminded of what i told myself i was gonna get done yesterday and as groggy and as tired as i might be in the

morning more times than not i grab my notebook i grab my alarm and i get to my day and finally take at least 10 minutes every day to be still now this is a piece of advice that's easy to ignore and look over but i found that when i give myself that time to be by myself to be quiet to do nothing i always appreciate it those moments really hold me together especially when times are tough like they have been in 2020 so meditating going for a walk sitting still in a chair listening to music

just simply being quiet and doing nothing is something that we rarely get enough of especially these days it seems like we're always on our phone we're watching tv we're cooking dinner we're eating we're talking to our spouse we're always doing something and so by taking 10 minutes to be quiet to be still to open ourselves up to being grateful for appreciating what we have those are the moments that are going to make life worth it and it's it's the things that you don't think that you need but you truly need more than anything else now

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