Wednesday, June 1, 2011

100 Days to a New Life

I came across this link the other day from the http://www.lifehack.org/ website... It caught my eye and I'm thinking I might print it out... It's called 60 Small Ways to Improve Your Life in the Next 100 Days. Now that is quite a list!!

The first thing to do is look at 100 different ways in which you can declutter things in your life. Day 1 - declutter books. Day 2 - declutter Cds. Day 3 - declutter empty boxes. Or whatever. The first thing that came to me is... I don't have 100 areas of my life to declutter!! Unless I turn Declutter Clothes into various things like: Declutter Socks, Declutter Jeans, Declutter T-shirts... At that rate, I could probably turn one thing into 20 things! But I like the idea of it!

Now, I have to admit, keeping track of doing 60 things in one day might be a bit much... I'll be lucky if I can tackle 10 of them... But it's an admirable idea... and given that they have put the list into categories, maybe the trick is to choose 2 from each category to start with... Eight categories... two from each... that's 16 small ways to change my life in the next 100 days... Cool idea...

So let's see... which ones... which ones...
Home
#1 - Pick one thing a day to declutter for 100 days... I like this one
#3 - Walk around house and fix/repair/handle one thing a day
Happiness
#4 - Write down 5 to 10 things I am grateful for each day
#5 - Write down 20 things I enjoy doing and do one a day
Learning/Personal Development
#8 - Choose a book requiring effort and concentration and read a bit for the next 100 days
#12 - Keep Morning Pages for next 100 Days
Finances
#15 - Scourt Internet for frugality tips, choose 10 and implement them for the next 100 days
#17 - Don't buy anything I don't need for the next 100 days
Time Management
#20 - For the next 5 days - track how I spend my time, create a time budget and stick with it for the 95 days
#22 - Identify 5 ways in which I waste time and then limit the amount of time I waste...
Health
#32 - eat at least 3 servings of fruit/day
#36 - drink water instead of pop
My Relationship
#47 - write someting positive about my partner each day
#49 - three actions to strengthen the relationship and do them each day
Social
#53 - don't pass judgement... period
#54 - do a kind deed for someone each day

There, that doesn't look so bad... now I just need to print this out or write it out and keep it with me. It is affirming to know that I already do some of those 60 things, so I've got a start already! I figure it's one way of making our world a better place!

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