A question recently posted to Quora asks “what are small changes you’ve made resulting in a big difference in your life?” Check out the responses below and add your own in the comments.
Keep always water on your table (at work and home)
60% of your body is water. You can prevent yourself from a lot of headache if you drink frequently water, because the blood easily get thick. If the glass or bottle is empty on your table, you should fill up or buy another bottle immediately, you should leave your table with full bottle.
Write “Thank you” instead of “Sincerely” or “Best regards” at the end of each e-mail
Never is enough to say Thank you to others, people tend to forget if they receive a favor, or help. By saying more frequently thank you, you relationships with others will change dramatically.
Read meaningful news in the morning (just some minutes)
One of my wisest tutor during my PhD told, that he reads meaningful news every morning (for him business and science were the favorite topics). Facebook and twitter is a good thing, but there is a lot of unimportant junk news among the posts. Submit your favorite sites into a newsreader (I use currently feedly) and enjoy posts that you interested in. P.S. do not hesitate add or delete sources.
Look into others eyes while you talking with them
This helps to keep better connection during the talk, and changes the relationship between you and your partner.
Be honest with yourself
I could not either really lie to your body, it always reflects what is inside. If you anxious, you can easily get a stomach ache, because your body reacts to your thoughts.
Write down your desires
Do not just wonder about your desires write them down, put them into reality (even if just on paper), but remember it is just the start. You have to seed all desires as you seed a plant still it grows into its real form.
- Simon Tail
Learning to act my way into the right thinking, instead of thinking my way into the right action.
I use to wait far to long to act because I was under the mistaken impression that I couldn’t do anything until I was in the perfect frame of mind to do it. But I’ve come to learn that approach not only caused me to remain idle for far too long, it also caused me to remain stuck in a suboptimal state of mind (the more I put something off, the worse I’d feel about it).
I’m now finding that the byproduct of just taking the next right action, regardless of whether or not I’m mentally ready, is an automatic improvement in my frame of mind.
- Anthony T. DiPietro
During the last 5 minutes of my commute home I turn off the radio/podcast and focus on what I’m going to do when I get home. I have two sons (4 year old & 6 month old) and it’s important for me to have a fresh mindset when I walk into the house. Before I started this routine I would be thinking about work, politics or the latest tech news. Now I walk in the door thinking about what I’m going to do with my kids and how I’m going to relieve my wife.
-- Thomas Paine
