Use These 6 Tiny Things to Immensely Elevate You Life (Fast )
Let’s start living in the present.
Do you ever worry about things you can’t control?
If you do, join the club. It happens to all of us. But worrying is a waste of time and energy.
Tiny upgrades in life has all the power to elevate your life. Sometimes doing smaller things can lead you to better results and help you achieve audacious goals.
Other thing is you don’t need to do it all. Breaking them down in smaller chunks can help you not to stress out.
Choose just one new change to try. These small changes can help you lead better lifestyle and mindfulness in your overall life.
Productivity is not about making big changes, adding zillions of stuff in your daily routine, or contently worry about end results.
If you want to achieve things in your life, it’s about aiming for daily progress. And you daily progress can be as small as you want.
So that you won’t feel like it a big task or something you just want to check off from your list.
We all have everyday goals like to do exercise, read, work, learn, study, every single day. And some days it’s impossible to do it all.
So why not take a step back and reassess what you need and where you want to focus more. Not tie-ing yourself up to restrict routine. Else after some time, you will stop enjoying things that you really like.
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. — Confucius
#1 Scheduling tiny breaks thought out your day
Put some time in your daily schedule for short breaks to destress and rejuvenate.
It can start with taking a short walk, meditating for 5 minutes, or drinking your favorite smoothie, or eating a snack, yoga or just light stretching can make you productive and ease out any stress you might have.
It’s not possible to move from one activity to the next at blinding speed and be reflective at the same time. The more complex and demanding the work we do, the wider, deeper and longer the perspective we require to do it well. ― Tony Schwart
#2 Doing things with an intent
How many times you do things that doesn’t have any intent. Like watching tik-tok videos, Instagram reels for hours and not realizing how much time have you spent.
When you start doing things with an intent and purpose, it can lead you to live better lifestyle and let you focus on important aspect of your life.
When you eat, eat with mindfulness, when you workout, focus on your form and posture. while walking focus on your surroundings, nature.
Pay careful attention to everything you do.
#3 Showing appreciation and gratitude
Don’t take what you have for granted. It’s not like you should stop aiming for big for setting audacious goals for yourself.
It’s all about enjoying and appreciating what you have at this time and how far you have reached in your journey.
Appreciate your efforts, hard work, or any failure, rejections you might had in past that lead you to be here.
It will not magically change your life but slowly help you build resiliency and creative a positive mind set.
Positive mind attracts more positivity.
#4 Mindful practice is a way to fulfilling lifestyle
To live a mindful life, you don’t need to do hundred of minutes of meditation to re-charge daily.
Just sit in silence for 5 minutes without any distractions and let your mind wander.
Or try guided meditation to start with. I use headspace and calm app to declutter my thoughts.
It’s hard at beginning to sit still but if not impossible. It’s a skill that takes practice.
It can help you suppress your anger, anxiety, or if you’re overthinking like me, it can help you with your money mind to relax.
The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little. — Jon Kabot-Zinn
#5 Focusing on one thing at a time
It’s hard to do anything well when you’re distracted.
Some tasks needs your deep focus and attention. Keep your phone in different room or stop notification when you want accomplish something important.
When I am writing an article, play my favorite playlist, silent my phone, stop notification on my laptop.
It helped me immensely and my productivity improved 100x.
Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love — is the sum of what you focus on. ― Cal Newport
#6 Eliminating distractions
I have written many times on this topic. Sometimes it’s easy to eliminate things than adding or trying something new that you haven't done before.
One of the most important keys is to do an audit and carefully picking one and two things that can you eliminate without sacrificing much.
For example, if you’re spending hefty amount of time on your phone, try reducing it for an hour or so and use that use to workout or adding any mindful activities.
If you are spending hours in meetings where you are not attentive or nothing to do with you, start declining them to empty up your calendar a bit.
If some meeting can be done through email or chat, try this instead.
Similarly, when you eat, just eat and enjoy your food.
When you walk, just walk and enjoy each step without music or phone conversations.
Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it, put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else. — Swami Vivekananda
Final Thoughts
Adding a new habit and eliminating something that’s is not helping can help you upgrade your life and will spark new ideas.
Stay curious and look for new ways of working and enjoying your life.
Aim to progress 0.1% every day to see bigger improvements in next 6 months.
Be Bold
Be Courageous
Be Your Best
Relish more on self-improvement
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