Change your life for the better by introducing only the best and healthiest habits into it. Start the day with a clean slate, without putting off everything for endless Monday or tomorrow.
And it's not just about smoking, drinking alcohol or using foul language. This article is not about morality and ethics, but about subtle things that trigger the mechanism and make life successful, and you - happy. What good habits should be introduced to maintain your psychological and physical health?
Start the day with a positive
Wake up in the morning with the thought that a good day awaits you. And remember: what you think is materializing sooner or later. Learn to program your life, and for this you need to start in the morning of every day.
You need to enjoy the little things. When you realize that waking up in the morning is a good reason to smile, then your life will begin to change dramatically. Having introduced this useful habit, you will notice that you have become more positive about everything around you, less react to stress and negative things from the outside.
Even if you protect yourself from problems, stop eating junk food, and avoid conflict situations - this will only aggravate your condition. All negativity will accumulate in your soul until it begins to destroy it.
Self-control and discipline
Surely, each of you heard the following saying: "Do not put off until tomorrow what you can do today." Try it and you: disassemble the accumulated things that embarrass you and shame. Even if you have long been considering disassembling a storage cabinet or cleaning your computer from unnecessary programs, proceed now.
“I have too much work”, “I get tired”, “I will do everything on vacation” - you don’t notice how you are deceiving yourself. Of course, there’s no escape from work, but most of our free time is pointlessly spent on games, social networks or watching TV shows. Not even for reading and self-education, but for aimless wandering on the Internet. If you spend your free time on a long-planned business, then you will witness how your inner world begins to change. Firstly, the heavy lump that has been dragging you all this time will disappear and the long-awaited relief will come. Secondly, with order in the outside world, order comes in the head and soul.
In addition, having accustomed yourself to carry out the assigned tasks as soon as possible, you teach yourself discipline. This is the seed from which a responsible, reliable person grows, which you can rely on at any time. And in life, such a good habit will have a beneficial effect. After all, you will always keep all your affairs under control and be sure of absolutely everything. Do not put off until tomorrow what you can do today, because this is the only way not to carry the heavy burden of shame, feelings of unfulfilled duty and responsibility that are eating us from the inside.
Active life
Another simple but good habit is walking. The benefits of this activity are great, because during a walk you activate the muscles of the whole body. As a result, the work of the muscular, cardiovascular and respiratory systems improves. After a week of such an experiment, you will feel much better. Namely, numbness of the extremities will pass, constant chills will cease to torment, and the legs and arms will not freeze around the clock. This is because walking has a beneficial effect on blood circulation, which transports oxygen, which nourishes the tissues of muscles, brain and cells.
Hiking is a good habit, as you burn extra calories while walking, which contributes to rapid weight loss. Yes, and the body becomes more resilient and strong.
Not sure where to start? Try to get out 10-15 minutes earlier and catch the bus not at the usual stop, but at the next, which is located 300-500 meters away. Replace the elevator with a ladder, choose stores located further from your home, go shopping 2-3 times a day. You only need a week to get rid of stagnant processes, improve blood flow throughout the body, and strengthen your immune system. Just one week, and you will begin to notice that such walks make you stress-resistant, hardy and positive person.
Say yes! meditations
Relaxation and meditation are good health habits that many doubt. People do not understand at all how sitting still can have a beneficial effect on their body. However, it is meditation that allows you to relax the whole body, temporarily move away from problems and negativity.
The thing is that modern society lives in a frantic pace when there is no time for a good rest. Instead of silence and peace, we choose to watch TV shows, visit noisy places and communicate on social networks, mistakenly believing that this is the relaxation that everyone is talking about. Meditation, although not the first time, but can abstract you from the outside world. Being in a state of rest, you will mentally push off from the bustle of everyday life.
Of course, you will have to practice meditation every day before you learn to disengage from surrounding problems and worldly concerns. To do this, you need to regularly find a comfortable position, learn to hear your breathing, aligning it. Meditation for 10 minutes a day can be a good habit that will forever change your life and have a beneficial effect on physical and psychological health.
Go in for sports
Let's be honest - this advice has already been beaten up and everyone is pretty tired. The whole world is full of bright headlines that urge you to get up off the couch and start practicing active sports. And at this moment we begin to come up with all sorts of excuses, just not to make sport our daily habit - useful and necessary.
But to be honest, sports can really make you happy. Firstly, during the classes you spend the accumulated energy, so after training there is no strength and desire to lament for the whole world, to get angry. Secondly, you will forever get rid of the complexes that are securely embedded in your brain. Because health will improve, as well as mood, the body will become embossed, toned, elastic. Guys will begin to feel more courageous, women - sexier. And all thanks to regular training.
It’s time to dispel the myth: you do not need to go to the gym to achieve first success. It’s enough to even do push-ups every other day or do squats to realize how intellectually you are unloading from a hard day, began to sleep better, that your working capacity has improved, your libido has increased.
Follow the modes
Self-discipline is a very important habit for physical and mental health. If you do not control your life, do not establish orders and do not comply with them, then we will soon begin to relax, allowing ourselves to oversleep an important meeting, be late for a date, or, worse, begin to ignore diseases that should be treated long ago.
Follow the modes if you want to live well. Namely:
- Get up and lie down at the same time. Find a comfortable sleep regimen for yourself when you are fully resting. Six hours are enough for someone, lying down at the same time no earlier than midnight. And someone is ready to go to bed almost at 8 pm, hardly dinner has time to digest.
- Eat at least 4-5 times a day. Divide the food into small portions - so you improve your metabolism and stop suffering from indigestion. Avoid fast foods and don't be lazy to set aside 2-3 hours to cook your own meals for every day. For example, did you know that some prepared meals can be frozen? Buckwheat with meat sauce, fried chicken with rice, fish and potatoes in a rustic way. Even after defrosting, you can enjoy a fragrant dish that is as if cooked. But remember: such dishes are stored in the freezer for no more than three months.
- Drink plenty of water. Replace teas, coffee, soft drinks, juices with plain bottled water. The body will thank you!
Bookworm
Reading is a really good habit. Useful skills that you can discover from this lesson are fast information digestibility, increased vocabulary, eloquence, and a broad view of the world.
As Mark Twain said:
A person who does not read good books has no advantages over a person who cannot read.
The world is filled with truly great masterpieces that have come a long way. All these stories could be lost, burned and forgotten, but people carefully carried them and presented them to their followers.
There are good books, and there are bad ones. You will determine this yourself, because when you start reading, you will immediately understand what is most interesting to you. But the fact remains - in the books you can find answers to questions, get acquainted with new information, begin to look more broadly at people, their characters and fates. This has an advantage, because literature teaches us absolutely everything.
Give preference to not just self-development books, which are published one after another, having the same advice. And first of all, those that were written in simple human language, reflecting the true world, its essence and pressing issues. This may not be a scientific publication, but a simple fictional story with non-existent characters, fates and characters.
Self development
Books are good, a good habit for children and adults. But just reading literature is not enough, because you need to expand your horizons. Just imagine that you live almost all your life in one place and do not even suspect that outside there is a completely different world - unusual, inspiring, frightening, huge.
- First, start learning languages. Do not try to take ten at once and do not try to master it one hundred percent. Teach him from the heart so that you like it yourself. When you can understand a foreign dialect and communicate in a new language with a native speaker, even with constant amendments, you will understand that countless interesting people live around you. This useful habit will open the door to a new world - you can watch your favorite TV shows and read your favorite books in the original edition, appreciating the tragedy and humor of the authors, listening to songs and understanding their meaning.
- Secondly, do not reject science. Do not divide people into technicians and humanities. Get to know how our world works, and it will definitely delight and inspire you.
- Thirdly, be creative, especially if your soul is drawn to it. Do you want to learn how to play the cello, but are afraid that others will judge, because you recently turned forty years old? Are you afraid to start dancing due to being overweight? Would you like to attend calligraphy and herbalism courses, but it bothers you that you serve in a government organization? Understand one thing that time is running out and if you do not try to do what you like, then you will regret it all your life. And this will definitely undermine your mental and physical condition.
A set of good habits
Cicero believed that a habit is nothing but a second "I". What we repeat day by day reflects our essence, character and life position.
- Always start the day with breakfast. Do not skip this meal, because in this way you saturate the body with energy and strength for the whole day. It is best to eat cereal porridge, adding fresh fruits or nuts to it.
- Get a diary or notepad. Write in it all the most important, starting with important things and ending with the good events that happen to you. In it, begin to maintain a personal budget, especially if they began to notice that wages ceased to be enough for a month's stay. This will help to soberly assess the situation. For some, this will be an occasion to start saving, saving themselves from such habits as acquiring unnecessary things, and for someone, this will be a signal that it is time to grow, look for new ways to earn money, reaching great heights.
- Learn to take jokes addressed to you as humor. Laugh with everyone, do not miss the opportunity to play a joke on a friend or colleague, and most importantly - do not look for negativity in everything.
How to change habits
Change does not occur on its own, just like stones do not budge without assistance. At the moment, you are a huge rock, which should grow your legs and freely walk on the ground. If you do not begin to change your life, then you will remain in place. As a rule, such people begin to get used to the same days and weeks, believing that this is the best thing in their life that happened to them.
Changing habits is not so difficult. Scientists have proved that a person needs only 21 days to accustom himself to something new - it doesn’t matter if you are going to quit smoking or download a press every day. The question is different - do you really need some habits?
Analyze your life and realize that you would like to change the most that you dream about, what is annoying and depressing. When you set your priorities, it will not be difficult to establish good habits. We give an example: you do not have time, all the time you decide things on the go and throw them halfway. Despite this, at the end of the day you feel exhausted. In this case, you need to learn how to distribute responsibilities, writing them down in your diary. You should see before your eyes which things are not finished, which require immediate intervention, and which can wait a few weeks.