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12 Powerful Scientifically Proven Habits That Will Change Your Life

Are you ready and willing to change your life? Start with these small habits, and you will be on your way to living a happier, longer, and more fulfilling and successful life.

These twelve habits have been scientifically proven to change your life. Many of these work together and can be implemented with each other, but you can start with just one at a time. Focus on one habit a month, and you will have these 12 habits in a year. In one year, your life can dramatically change with these simple yet powerful habits. Read on to find out why and how.

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27 Things You Should Give Up to Be Happy

We all want to be happy, yet we partake in mindsets and behaviors that ultimately make life harder and leave us unhappier. We are responsible for our own happiness. Although it may be difficult, we can let go of those things that no longer serve us and only cause pain, suffering, and stress.

Here’s a list of 27 things you should give up to be happy.

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12 Small Lifestyle Changes that Will Dramatically Improve Your Physical and Mental Health

Living a healthier lifestyle doesn’t have to mean drastic changes in our daily habits and routines. We can and should start small when it come to change in our lives. These small healthy living tips will make a big difference to help you live a healthier, happier, and improved lifestyle.

Here are 12 simple lifestyle changes that will dramatically improve both your physical and mental health.

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15 Small Lifestyle Changes that Will Dramatically Improve Your Life

Small lifestyle changes can have dramatic impacts on our lives, even if we don’t notice at first. The effects usually last too. We may have heard many of these before, but they’re a lot more powerful and important than we think. They are backed by a growing body of research.

Here are 15 small ways to make dramatic changes in your life to drastically improve your life and live a happier, richer, and more fulfilling life. These 15 small lifestyle changes will dramatically improve your life.

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What You Can Change and What You Can’t Change

You might’ve heard and might even believe the statement, “People can’t change.” There is also the long-running debate in psychology on nature vs. nurture. Are people born a certain way because of genes or do they do become that way because of environment and upbringing? Most people will say, to some degree both.

The question then becomes, regardless of whether it’s genetics or the environment, “Is change is possible?” What change is possible and what isn’t? What can we change and what can’t we change?

Plasticity is the term scientists, and psychologists use for what changes and what doesn’t. Neuroplasticity refers to the brain’s ability to change. The book The Brain That Changes Itself details many astounding cases of neuroplasticity. So while genetics and biology can play a role in a person’s psychology, it doesn’t mean that change is impossible.

Co-founder of positive psychology Martin Seligman, in his book What You Can Change and What You Can’t, claims that there are things we can change and things we can’t change.

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35 Proven Ways to Make Change Easier

So you want to change your life. However, most attempts to change our behavior are unfortunately unsuccessful. A study in Facts and Fictions in Mental Health conducted by John Norcross of the University of Scranton found that only 19% of people who made a New Year’s resolution to make a change related to behavior successfully kept up the change after a two year follow up.

Change is hard. I list 22 reasons why change is hard here.

According to Stanford researcher Dr. BJ Fogg, creator of the Fogg Behavior Model, the best way to change behavior is to make the desired change easier. This article doesn’t promise to make change easy, but it can at least make it easier.

Here are 35 ways to make changes easier.

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22 Reasons Why Change is Hard

Most of us have something in our lives or about ourselves that we’d like to change, even if it’s just something small. If not, we should.

But we’ve all heard and seen it before and have probably experienced it firsthand. Change is hard. People hate change. People are resistant toward change. I learned this after running a survey in which 390 people answered a question about change: what they would like to change in their lives and where would they start?

The thing is that’s not true for all change. Many of us will willingly and often joyfully embrace change like getting a new phone, moving to a new house, getting married, and having kids. Why is that? Why are some changes welcomed with open arms and “easier” for us than other changes?

It’s because it’s the changes in our behavior that are hard.

In this article, I list 16 reasons why change is hard. First, let’s look into the five stages of change.

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Why We Need to Change the Way We Look at Change

At this point in your life, what would you like to change in your life now and where would you start?

After asking people about change, I learned that we need to change the way we look at change.

Through a survey, interview, and other platforms, I asked a total of 390 people what they would like to change in their life.

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The Top 25 Most Recommended Books by Successful People

Most successful people will credit much of their success, knowledge, and skills to reading.

When Elon Musk is asked how he learned to build rockets, his response is simple.

“I read books,” he allegedly likes to say.

Reading books is essential for the success of an entrepreneur or even individual, however, what is just as important is reading the right books. Entrepreneurship is a skill. And success can be more easily reached through education.

After sifting through hundreds of book and reading lists from successful entrepreneurs and leaders including those of Fortune 500 and INC 500 and CEOs such as Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Larry Page, and Warren Buffet, I have compiled this list of the most recommended business and self-improvement books.

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  • Today ReachingSelf turns one!! ✨ ⠀ Thank you for all your support and for following me on this wonderful journey. ⠀ I am so happy and grateful for this opportunity and passion to help, teach, give and serve you! ⠀ I look forward to continue growing, creating and giving much, much more and better. 💕
  • Happy first day of summer! Can’t wait to have some fun and hit the beach 🌞
  • Anyone can become great, but not many will.
  • There are people who say that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger and then there are people that state that that’s not true - you can experience traumatization, ptsd, etc. ⠀ The truth is that it depends. ⠀ It’s entirely based on how the person takes it. ⠀ A set of studies looked at people that suffered serious adversity and survived. They found three different types of people - those that were permanently dispirited, those who went back to normal, and those who used experience to make them stronger. ⠀ What this tells us is that you can make what happens to you to happen for you if you let it. You can make what doesn’t kill you make you stronger, but you can also have it do nothing for you or you can let it make you weaker. It not just about the cards you were dealt with, it’s about what you do with them. ⠀ What doesn’t kill doesn’t just automatically make you stronger just because you survived. But it can. Whether it does or it doesn’t lies on you.
  • Just keep going. Keep moving forward. Keep climbing. Never stop. You will get to where you believe you’ll be. 🧗🏻‍♀️
  • If you could choose to have one superpower, what would it be? ⠀ It’s an easy answer for me. A learning superpower. I’m not too sure what the specifics would be, but you could get crazy with it. ⠀ Think about it: If you could learn anything, you could do pretty much anything most people desire to do. ⠀ You could learn how to make money, you could learn how to be popular, make friends and find love. ⠀ You could learn to develop discipline and take action to achieve anything you want. ⠀ You could learn about the body and health to become super strong, healthy and fit. ⠀ You could learn how to build machines and technology that would make you be able to do pretty much anything a super hero could do. ⠀ You could learn the solution to a major world problem. ⠀ Instead of saving people from one big bad villain, you’d be saving people from problems that affect millions like cancer and poverty. ⠀ The crazy thing is that this power is available to us. Sure it’s not a super power in which we’re able to just scan a whole bookshelf and absorb all the information or be able to learn a superhuman speed. But we do have the power to learn nearly anything. Many of us just never use it because we’re too busy working hard. Or we think that the people that accomplish these great feats are just super geniuses. The only difference is that they are constant learners. They know the power and value of learning and education. ⠀ Learning is so underrated. All this talk of hustle and grind and working hard is prevalent all over social media. This is a bit silly to me when we could be working smarter instead of harder. This is the value of learning and education. ⠀ It allows us to accomplish things faster and better and not only that, it allows us to grow and advance rather than continue to stagnate with outdated and limited knowledge. Knowledge is becoming more valuable than money. Education and learning are what can make us become great and attain power in our lives.