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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In this article, I share my experience with Tony Robbins and Gary Vee at The Ultimate Wealth and Achievement Summit. Is it worth it? Is it a scam? What should you expect?
Although most of don’t like receiving unsolicited advice, we will still often seek out advice. Especially if we’re struggling with overcoming an obstacle or reaching a goal. Whether it’s from friends, family members, therapists, psychics, life coaches, books, blogs, videos, or podcasts. This goes not only for advice but any knowledge, information, or data we can apply to our own lives. And this is a great thing.
But there’s so much out there though. A lot of it can be contradicting. And there’s a lot of junk too.
We obviously want to make the best decisions for our lives and well-being. Most of us don’t have a system for weeding through good and bad information. So, how can we seek advice and information effectively?
In this article we’re going to look at advice itself and the act of giving advice. This article will discuss why you shouldn’t give advice, what to do instead, and a surprising reason why you should give advice. We’ll also look at advice in the workplace (feedback) and how it can be given effectively.
In this article, I share commonly given advice that can actually be bad advice—many of which have been studied and allegedly proven to be so. I’ll also be sharing why the advice is bad as well as better advice instead. This article has little to do with the responses received. This type of advice is not specific nor given by any one particular person but is often a cliché, and anonymously quoted.
