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You always wanted to know how to improve the quality of your life in small ways?
This post is perfect for you, if you feel motivated to make some changes here and there.
Get habit ideas that will make your life feel more harmonious.
The magic lies in our daily routines. What we do regularly is what shapes our future. The person we become.
By integrating healthy and grounding habits every day, you embody the ideal version of yourself already now, in the present moment.
Here are some ideas on how to improve your life on the daily. Feel free to add your own favorite habits to feel healthy and happy!
Add Some Plants To Your Life
Besides the fact that they look beyond pleasant and up-level every room, they also purify the air.
So double win I would say. It’s a nice way to add some extra life to our homes. Especially if we don’t share it with someone else.
It’s also so rewarding to take care of plants and see how they grow. You can definitely see the fruits of your labor (sometimes even literally).
Crystals
If you are open to energy work, there’s a chance that crystals will make all the difference in your life.
Choosing the right crystal for your current life circumstances is a very intuitive process.
Go with the ones that truly speak to you and align with the changes you want to make in your life.
You can be sure that there is a crystal for every need you could have:
(self) love: Rose Quartz
wealth: Citrine, Pyrite
protection: Black Tourmaline
wisdom: Lapis Lazuli
inspiration: Sunstone, Blue Lace Agate
focus: Hematite
inner peace: Angelite
Make Your Water Bottle Your New Accessory
You’ve probably already heard it 100 times, me too, but still, it’s important to repeat it over and over again, as we still find ourselves dehydrated from time to time.
If there were just a perfect solution to prevent us from that disaster. 🙂 Like a water bottle!
It truly doesn’t take a lot to fill our bottles every morning with fresh water or tea and just take it with us.
Of Course, a huge bonus is to place it somewhere where we can see it.
Maybe we even get a sense of gratification from how much we drink throughout the day by realizing that the water bottle is already empty.
If you aren’t quite a fan of plain water, you can add some fresh fruit or try unsweetened tea.
Water Filter
As we are talking about water, a water filter pitcher is recommended as well.
The quality of water can vary a lot depending on where we live. The filter inside of the Brita water filter pitcher reduces Chlorine (taste and odor), Copper, Mercury and Cadmium.
Write Down Your Ideas Right Away
We all have those random ideas coming to mind: topics we’d like to research, things we need or want to do, insights, or hits of inspiration.
And more often than we should, we think we’ll remember to write it down later.
Let me just say it very clearly now, we don’t!
I highly recommend writing everything down immediately.
Personally, I just use the notes app on my phone or my journal.
Have An Organization Tool
Once we’ve written down our thoughts and ideas, it’s important to organize them and to not just let them grow old wherever we’ve captured them when things needed to go fast.
There are plenty of options to organize our ideas.
First of all, we can schedule them into our planner for things we would like to do.
For bigger goals which have a lot of steps to take before reaching them, or require habits you need to think of every day or week, I’d like to use an app to help me stay on top of all the things.
As we all know there are a lot of apps that can help you with your goals and dreams and with your motivation.
Just try out a bunch and see what works best for you.
I still write down most of my ideas and thoughts in my notes app but for clear action steps and tasks, I use an organization app and schedule them into my week.
Have A Bunch Of Journals
In my opinion, you can never have too many journals. Let me give you some quick inspiration on how you can use them:
- Bullet Journal as a daily/weekly/monthly planner and habit tracker
- Research Journal where you can write down notes and insights from Podcats episodes, videos you watch, articles, online courses,…
- Budget Tracker: writing down your income and expenses every month
- Dream Journal: You can write down the dreams you had at night and by doing that every day, it helps you to remember them even more clearly, and maybe notice recurring patterns and symbols. It also helps with lucid dreaming.
- Classic Journal: writing down thoughts, current feelings, dreams/desires, writing prompts, journal exercises, just perfect to get unwanted thoughts out of your head.
- A journal where you could write down your favorite lyrics or quotes from books.
Read At Least 10 Minutes Every Day
There is so much to learn. For every interest or hobby there are thousands of books available.
It’s so easy for us to have access to yearlong research.
This is for sure one of the easiest ways to improve your life, and yet such a powerful one.
Give yourself at least 10 minutes every day to expand your perception of the world.
Open yourself up to new ways of thinking, which will help you make healthy changes in your life.
Listen To Podcasts Or Audiobooks
If sitting still and staying concentrated isn’t your thing or you just don’t find time for reading, listening to an audiobook or podcasts are a perfect alternative.
The topics covered in podcasts are way more specific than in books. So we can get very targeted information that maybe doesn’t even exist in book form.
Prepare The Night Before To Have Less Trouble In The Morning
Having everything in place so that you don’t need to rush through the morning is a must change.
Who likes to think about what to wear while being still half asleep?
Here are the things you can prepare in the evening to have a peaceful morning:
- Choose your outfit for the next day
- Pack your bag
- Prepare and pack your lunch for the next day
- Set the table
- place a glass of water on your nightstand that you drink first thing in the morning
Have A Playlist For Every Mood
No matter how you feel, always having a playlist to support you is a great thing, as music is always improving your life.
Here you can find my blog post with a playlist having all the happy songs to cheer you up.
Just add your favorite songs and start to dance, or cry, or relax.
Meditation
Answers to the big questions will only emerge in silence.
You won’t find them in any of the other ways.
Just sit down, close your eyes, have no expectations, and see what happens.
Trust your inner guidance and the answers will appear naturally.
Visualization
Visualization is where you are actively imagining a scene. Preferably your dream life.
The brain can’t distinguish whether you are just visualizing or actually experiencing your dream life at the moment in your head.
The most important part of visualizing is that you feel what you see.
Be there, include all your senses – that’s the best way to truly connect with the scene.
Don’t doubt what you experience at any time. Believe with your whole being that it is happening.
As a little bonus step after the visualization, you can ask yourself: “What can I do today/this week to feel close to my dream life?”
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