Live every day as an automated robot or become a Builder of your reality, where everything happens the way you planned — the choice is yours.
Here is a list of 12 things you can start doing right now to improve your life.
1. Read this article to the end and follow all the recommendations
It is not enough just to read the article briefly. Just as knowing what you should do is not enough.
Instead, take yourself seriously and analyze your reality as you read this list of tips. Pause when you need to, take notes if necessary, and then figure out how you can start acting on this new knowledge.
Most people think that success is something magical, when in fact it’s just planning and executing!
Don’t dismiss these tips as obvious, because they aren’t. Take the list seriously and you will discover how small changes will start to occur in your life.
By the end of this article, you should have all the answers you need to make significant changes, so no more excuses!
2. Stop expecting others to decide your life for you
Do you think that improving your life is too difficult? Are you concerned about? Are you exhausted?
Everyone has their own difficulties in life, but only a few decided to get off the couch and do something about it.
No one will come down from heaven miraculously to make everything perfect for you. You have lived long enough to know that change only happens when you change something!
So take this opportunity to talk to yourself:
What are the biggest problems in your life right now?
Which ones can you really solve?
We feel overwhelmed because problems tend to accumulate to the point where you feel paralyzed and don’t want to solve them, hoping that they will all just disappear. The truth is that they will actually only grow. But most likely, you have everything you need to solve at least some of them.
Start small and build momentum! Sooner or later, you will find that it is easy to improve your life one point at a time.
3. Clean your house
Do you want to do something today that will improve your life for the better? Clean up your environment. Start with your Desk, then your room, and then put the whole house in order.
You will be proud of yourself when you look at the order you have brought to the chaos. You will feel strong because your actions are actively changing your environment for the better.
Deep down, we all prefer order to chaos, and cleaning your home is just the first push that makes you move in the right direction!
4. Reduce the consumption of sweet, fried and flour
This will be a shock to your entire system. You are probably addicted to sugar and don’t even know it.
If you don’t have any health problems and you don’t take medications that cause weight gain, it’s likely that you eat too much fried food. And if you have a problem with excess body fat, it doesn’t mean that you have a wide bone or that your genes make you fat.
You just put too much bad shit in your mouth!
According to statistics, it is more difficult to acquire a new habit than to start managing an existing one.
Instead of sweet soda, drink water.
Instead of French fries, take a salad.
Instead of bread or pasta, more vegetables.
At first, you will feel tired, anti-motivational, and perhaps even grumpy. But every time you make the right choice for yourself, you get a little grin on your face and a feeling: “Damn it, I’m driving this car again — this is my body.”
You should also pay attention to the salt and the amount of alcohol you consume.
Here’s the secret to being a little healthier than you are now: stop eating so much junk food and drink more water! It’s actually that simple.
5. Start reading a good book
Or at least a book that inspires you to be better than you are now.
As you read, you will find that you value yourself and your time more. By opening yourself up to other people’s journeys, you can draw wisdom from their experiences.
You get richer with every book you read!
6. Limit your consumption of social media and entertainment
These days, abandoning social networks may sound stupid. But, the first and last thing people do in their lives is check social networks. They don’t get out of bed. For the first 30 to 45 minutes of their day, they keep scrolling and looking at this artificial reality that people display in their profiles. Then, when night falls, they do the same.
“Look how we live!”
This need to fill what seems to be free time is tearing society apart.
Reduce social media to 30 minutes a day, leave another 30 minutes for entertainment, and see how your life changes when you are alone.
7. Make a plan for tomorrow
And then the next day, a week, and so on.
Do you know why you don’t do more to improve your life? This is because you don’t plan what to do. You just have a vague idea of what you expect at some point in the foreseeable future.
The plan makes what you want in your thinking become reality. Start tomorrow! Make a schedule for yourself and plan your day. Try to be specific.
Don’t forget to include some things that you’ve been putting off. You can even include 30 minutes for social media and 30 minutes of entertainment as a reward towards the end of the day, if you want. Find a time interval to read a couple of pages of the book.
The moment you start planning your day, you will start controlling the time!
This is how super successful people manage to do so much in the same 24 hours a day that everyone else can’t.
8. Wake up at the same hour every day
If you go to bed earlier, you may Wake up a little earlier than usual and complete some of the tasks in your daily plan.
Waking up at the same hour every day, such as 6 or 7 in the morning, will allow you to do more things in the morning, leaving you free time to focus on what you think is good for your life.
9. Find out what you are spending money on
Your ability to control your life is what makes life incredible. Otherwise, you are simply trapped, dancing to whatever tune is playing.
Control comes from understanding what is happening!
The more you understand what is happening around you, the more power you have to change it.
So start controlling your money. How much money do you earn and what do you spend it on?
If you ever start keeping track of your spending, you will be shocked at how poorly you actually handle money. You will quickly find ways to improve your spending habits, and for some of you, this will be the first time you will have excess capital.
Think also about how you can earn more. Maybe you should ask for a raise, or find an additional source of income.
10. Determine what makes you happy and what doesn’t
Most people never spend a minute of their life thinking about this simple question. Perhaps you can be the first person in your family to sit down and genuinely think about how you spend your life.
Make a list. Write down all your actions that bring you happiness and joy. Then do the same for something that doesn’t make you happy.
Now take a good look at these lists!
The secret to winning in life is to do more things from the first list and less from the second.
Don’t dismiss it, usually simple things like recording make a difference. The moment you try to write them down in writing, you will realize that it is more difficult than it seems, because to get to the good, you need to be honest and dig into yourself!
11. Keep track of your goals
At the beginning of the year, you set some goals for yourself. What happened to them? Have you forgotten about them? How many goals have you achieved? How much is left to be achieved?
You can only improve what you can measure!
Tracking your progress lets you know what went wrong with some of them and what went wrong with others.
12. Write down 5 things you want to achieve in the medium term
Now that you have analyzed and fully understood why you did not achieve your goals, you can finally focus on what is waiting for you in life.
Find 5 goals, no more, no less, that can be achieved in the next 6 months.
Don’t overdo it, you won’t earn your first million in the next 6 months if your net profit last year was N1,635,121 naira. Instead, focus on specific things that can affect your life. For example, reading 1 book a month for 6 months, taking on more responsibility at work, and finally getting a promotion, etc. Anything that makes sense to you.
Write these 5 goals down on a piece of paper and stick them over your Desk so that you can remind yourself of them every day.
