You don’t like your life? Change it! Change your life for the better! Don’t have any clue on how to do it? Here’s a list of 100 ways in which you can improve your life. Feel free to add yours in the comments. This post is a response from a challenge I got from from Mike King in this great post 100 Ways To Be A Better Leader, which in turn got inspired by this one Tackle Any Issue With A List Of 100 , from Luciano Passuello. [Later edit: you may also be interested in this sequel 100 Ways To Screw Up Your Life.]
Without further ado, let’s go.
1. Accept Your Mistakes
You’re human. We, humans, are making mistakes. Accept what you did wrong and try to do better next time. No need to punish yourself forever. In fact, accepting your mistakes is the only way to make them disappear.
2. Accept Your Friends Mistakes
Maybe you got hurt by somebody. Happens. Just accept it and deal with it. People are making mistakes and if you can accept that for yourself, accept it for your friends too. In the end, all you need from them is their love.
3. Create A New Habit
We’re doing a lot of stuff on autopilot. Try to integrate in this category new things you want to attract into your life. Habits are powerful. Harness their energy for your own good. Start by creating a habit in 15 days.
4. Build Self Discipline
Don’t wait for other people to impose discipline on you. Start early. Create your own discipline. Although it sounds a little bit harsh, self discipline is a facilitator for many things in your life. It’s hard to get but great to have.
5. Make New Friends
Reach out. Don’t be afraid. Establish new contacts. The worst thing that may happen to you is to be rejected. Well, if that’s the case, move on. The reward of having true, long-lasting friendship is worth all the potential rejection.
6. Get A New Job
Shaking your comfort zone will often create a lot of value in your life. If you’re not satisfied with your job, just get a new one. The pitfall of not having money for a limited period of time is temporary, get over it.
7. Start A New Diet
You are, in a vast proportion, what you eat. Trying a new diet would often be the only needed change for a dramatic boost of your health and energy. Don’t necessarily have to be raw food, or even vegetarian, whatever works for you.
8. Keep A Journal
Write down you feelings, your ideas, your goals, your activity. Journaling is by far one of the most useful things I’ve done to change my life for the best. It works in such a silent, yet effective way. All you need is pen and paper.
9. Create And Keep A Morning Phrase
Whatever you say to yourself in the morning, it will most likely come true during the day. Why not taking advantage of it? Create a simple morning phrase and say it to yourself first thing in the morning. Is that simple.
10. Travel Far Away From Your Home
Traveling long distance is incredibly rewarding. It’s so exciting and full with unknown events. I only recently started to travel really far away from my home, but I do wonder how could I ever made it until now without this.
11. Learn To Take Risks
Your life may be so boring and fade because… err, you made it like this? When was the last time your tried something really difficult? When was the last time you challenged the odds doing something risky? Do it now.
12. Start Your Own Business
Be your own boss. Work your own hours. I know, it sounds so shallow, for you, who hate your job but still have to stay there because of that mortgage. Well, unless you make the first step, nothing is going to change. That’s for sure.
13. Change Your Work Space
Clean up your desk. Re-arrange furniture. Add some color to that space. Make the place where you work really enjoyable. So enjoyable that work there won’t be perceived as work anymore. It will be something you love to do.
14. Learn A New Language
Challenge your mind. Constantly. If you’re going to do number 10, you’re going to learn some new languages too. From my experience, learning a new language is a fantastic mind opener. Sometimes you don’t even have to travel there.
15. Find Reasons To Agree
Rather than disagree. We have this mindset of competition which makes constantly arguing over things. Well, stop that. You don’t have to force yourself into agreement, if it’s not the case, just trying to find some reasons will be enough.
16. Pay Yourself First
You can’t give something if you don’t have it. You can’t spread light onto others if you don’t have light from within. You can’t give wealth to others if you don’t have it for yourself first. Make yourself a service and pay yourself first.
17. Wake Up Early
This is not a habit, this is a lifestyle. Don’t just wake up early without a purpose. Be early. Be there before others. Look for opportunities and embrace them. Waking up early means keeping your eye open to every available opportunity.
18. Train Your Focus
Your focus is in fact your reality. Use it wisely. Train it constantly for it will enhance your reality in ways you never imagined. Keep your focus sharp as a razor blade and be prepared to experience life in fantastic shapes and colors.
19. Start A Blog
On whatever topic you want. Not only it will give you the opportunity to create something new and valuable but it will also bring new people into your life. Blogging is far more than a hype, is a personal development tool. A very good one.
20. Write An Ebook
You may think you don’t have a talent, but that’s completely wrong. And the easiest way to prove it wrong is to start writing an ebook. Any ebook. You pick the topic. It might be something you know or want to learn about. Write it. It’s fun.
21. Be Better, Not Perfect
Striving too much for perfection will ruin your life. It will wipe out all those little imperfections which are making you… human. Being better, on the other side, is rewarding. Look back at the yesterday you and just say: I’m better!
22. Stop Self Sabotage
You’ll be surprised by how much of a burden you can be to yourself. You are literally self sabotaging. Most of the time, unconsciously. If you have a long history of failure behind, that could mean you’ve become your worst enemy. Stop it.
23. Find Reasons To Love Your Life
Maybe life wasn’t fair with you. Yes, I know, I’ve been there: life is never fair. But it’s fantastic. It’s unique, unrepeatable, one of a kind, beautiful, simple, challenging, sweet, hard… Just take a step back and find reasons to love your life.
24. Try Something New
Maybe you’re sad because you’re bored. Have you ever thought about that? Just reach out and try something completely new. Go for a challenge, learn a new sport, pick a different restaurant or go for a comedy movie (if you’re the drama type). Just try it.
25. Avoid Fighting
Fighting is the biggest energy leak of your being. Trying to prove another guy wrong is so against your true nature. You’re here to acknowledge life’s wonders, not to prove anybody’s wrong. They’re not wrong, just have different opinions. And that’s part of life.
26. Stop Wasting Your Power
Are you doing something that you think you shouldn’t be doing right now? Well, that’s wasted power. That’s meaningless stuff promoted to the honor of being a part of your life. How long are you going to approve this? Why wasting power?
27. Learn To Ignore
I think they should be teaching this one in schools. We’re so focused on so many topics and think we have to do so many stuff, that our life is literally clogged with stuff. It’s good to do stuff, but learning to ignore stuff is much better.
28. Experiment Gratitude
When was the last time you said “thank you”? With all your heart? Everybody knows that an attitude of gratitude is the key to success, but almost nobody practices it. Well, start by experience gratitude first, and take it from there.
29. Recycle Your Aggression
Don’t throw it away, recycle it! Use it for something you really want! Call out those wild forces inside of you and put them to work. Aggression is part of your being, so don’t try to reject it, because it will only grow stronger. Recycle your aggression.
30. Release Your Guardians
Don’t touch that! Don’t eat that! Don’t go for that opportunity! Those are the sentences you hear when going for something you really want. Those are your guardians, your mental constructs made to protect you. Release them, you’ll be much better off.
31. Clean Up Your House
It’s fun. And it’s good for you. Make a habit out of cleaning up your house with joy and happiness. What’s outside is a mirror of what’s inside. If your house is a mess, probably your internal life is a disaster. Neat that stuff, it’s easy.
32. Write A Personal Mission Statement
You’re here with a reason. No matter how small you feel now, how insignificant others may made you feel, you have a purpose. Take the time to write your personal mission statement. It will bring light and direction into your life.
33. Dissolve Negative Opinions About Yourself
Whatever you think you may do, it’s half of what you can really do. And that’s because you have so many negative opinions about yourself. You can solve them. Just accept the fact that you have them and then start working on them.
34. Build Different Skills
Don’t stop learning. Don’t remain stuck in a single career, it’s boring and limiting. Learn different skills, possibly from completely unrelated fields. You never know when life will ask you to use them. Besides, it’s a lot of fun.
35. Manage Your Time As You Manage Your Money
Have you ever thought what would be if you would manage your time the same way you manage your money? Just give it a try. See where you spend most of your time, what the return of investment is and how rich are you in time.
36. Exercise
You don’t have to break the world record, or something. Just make sure you exercise constantly. It will make your body healthier and your mind clearer. It’s also one of the simplest and most affordable ways to improve your life.
37. Be A Parent
Having kids doesn’t necessarily means you’re a parent, and I know that very well. Being a parent will surely change your life forever: filling it with unconditional, life lasting love, care and warm feelings. You’ll live in love. And learn.
38. Throw Away One Object A Day From Your House
Maybe your life is breathing so hard just because it’s suffocated by objects. Learn to let them go. You may donate them, give to charity or simply throw them away, but don’t let the clutter stay in your way. You’re not the objects you have.
39. Read A Book Per Week
Or, alternatively, a fine selection of blogs. That will keep your mind alert and your focus steady. Reading is like good food for your brain, without it, it will go lazy, obese and unresponsive. But with the proper food it can become your best friend.
40. Start A Monthly Challenge
Being it physical, mental or social. Intend to acquire something new in your life in 30 days. Improve your health using new methods, or your relationships by starting new things together. Make it count. And count on it.
41. Call An Old Friend
It’s enlightening to meet somebody you haven’t talk to in the last years. Go right now and call an old friend, or a relative. It will bring up memories and it will create new opportunities. Don’t let the dust settle on your relationships.
42. Follow A Coincidence
Well, there aren’t any coincidences, I lied. Everything has a purpose. If you witness something which may seem like a coincidence, then you’re very lucky, you just got a sign. Follow it with trust, it will lead you well.
43. Play A Game
Any game. Just play. Like a child. Allow yourself to do something just for fun, without any goals, pressures or deadlines. Will make you understand that everything is a game. Sometimes a little bit harder, but still a game..
44. Forgive Somebody Out Of The Blue
Don’t hold that grudge for that past insult. Grudges are heavy and tend to make the take off for a new life a little bit difficult. The longer you hold that grudge, the more difficult the take off will be. Forgiveness will lift you off.
45. Stop Solving The Wrong Problems
You are not here to witness the bad things in your life. Nor the performance in itself. You are here to enjoy a journey. To become aware, To grow. So, stop solving the wrong problem and focus on what really matters.
46. Make Peace With An Old Enemy
That’s more than forgiveness, that’s the actual process of reversing a situation. Make peace with somebody. Turn it into your friend. I’m not saying this is easy, I know it first hand. But I also know it works. Enemies count down, friends count up.
47. Make A Promise To A Close Person And Keep It
It doesn’t have to be something big. It doesn’t have to be for someone special. It doesn’t have to be difficult also. But it has to be a commitment to somebody. Just reach out, make a promise, keep it and then enjoy the feeling after.
48. Break Up With A Person You Don’t Really Like
Maybe you’re friend with somebody just by habit, chemistry being dead for a long time now. Just break it up. Tell him. Ok, let’s unfriend us, this will not work. It will bring up something you thought you lost it long ago: courage.
49. Get A Thing You Wanted For A Long Time
But you didn’t had time or money to get it. Just go out and get it. Not only it will boost your self-respect, but it will also free your desire channel, which may be a little bit clogged by having one and only one desire for such a long time.
50. Stop Being Judgmental
With others AND with you. Excessive criticism will kill your enthusiasm. And if you think this post is something you shouldn’t read in the first place, then, my friend, you really are judgmental. Lighten up. Accept life as it is.
51. Change Your Wardrobe
You don’t know how much are you tied to what you wear. If you’re on the gray loving side, put some color in your clothes. If you’re on the black and white, try some gradients. Of course, your clothes are not you. Hence, they’re so easy to change, right?
52. Smile At Least 10 Times A Day
And I mean it, start to count that. Smiling is a sign of honesty and power. Everybody can cry over a disaster but only the most powerful can take bitterness with a smile. Exercise that power. And then try to go for 20 times a day.
53. Burn Some Old Memories
Maybe the notebook from your 7th grade? Maybe the teenage dumb poetry you wrote? Whatever it might be, break up. It might be difficult, but it might also be a sign that you’re so attached to the past that you can’t advance in your life anymore.
54. Plant A Tree
Or take care of a flower. Do it for at least several months. It will give you a sense of potential. Seeing that tree or that flower growing will make your self-confidence go up. If a flower can make it, why can’t I? Of course you can, now do it!
55. Move To Another Town Or Country
Maybe it’s time to change the environment? Take the plunge, move over. Pick another town or even another country. Like all the good stuff, it might be pretty difficult in the beginning, but you can bet it would shake everything really good!
56. Join A New Group
Go to a bikers meeting. Or, if you’re not a biker, to a toastmaster meeting. Join a group and see how you fit in. It will help if the group will be focused on some of your passions, of course. It will reveal a lot about your social skills.
57. Stop Watching TV
Television evolved a lot from the balanced news provider it was in the beginning up to the current manipulating tool. Just stop watching it for a week. And then for a month. Meanwhile, assess your psychological progress. You may be amazed.
58. Start A Totally Unexpected Hobby
Start making trains out of matches. Raise cobras. Put tiny vessels into tiny bottles. Do whatever it takes to move your mind from your problems for a while. And if you can create something nice in the process, why not doing it?
59. Randomly Hug A Stranger On The Street
Ok, this might be a little bit dangerous, but only if you think at it. If you’re doing it, chances are that you’re going to get your hug back. It will also help raising your adrenaline up to levels you never had for a very long time.
60. Set Up A Surprise Party
For your or for a friend. It’s always good for your mood, even if – or especially if – you’re down. Do a thematic one, invite friends and tell them to bring their friends. And then expect to meet new, wonderful persons. And of course, have fun.
61. Go Hiking
Do it for at least one week-end. Nature is more powerful than our human created environment. We don’t know how to channel the energy into our artificial habitats. If you want to recharge, go outside and stay in connection with the wilderness.
62. Get A Pet
Whatever works for you, a bird, a guinea pig, a dog or a cat. It will keep you alert and it will cheer you up when you’re down. Taking care of a pet is also easier if you’re overwhelmed with human interaction. Even from a pet, love is still love.
63. Write A Thank You Letter
You can send it or not, the real catch is to write it. Pick someone who helped you in the past. Start writing the letter and say everything you want to say to that person. It will make you understand what are you really grateful for in your life.
64. Meditate Daily
It’s the easiest thing you can do. True mediation acts like a mind emptier, leaving you open to the whole flow of the sensations and experiences you would otherwise ignore. You don’t even need a complicated technique, meditate as you see fit.
65. Say Something Nice To Somebody
Just like that. Out of the blue. Pick an unknown person and say something nice. After the initial surprise you’ll be amazed by the unmasked joy and gratitude they’re expressing. Admit it: you would like that too, isn’t it?
66. Say Something Nice To You
Ok, but if nobody is telling you nice things, why not start this yourself? Do it in whatever form you think it’s appropriate: send yourself emails, write in your calendar or leave yourself nice postits on the desk. With something nice just for you.
67. When I Doubt, Improvise
Being so scared for not knowing the answer, so nervouse that you may screw thins up… I know the feeling, I’ve been there too. Just go with the flow. Improvise. It will be so good for your unconscious mind. The real answer will be surprising.
68. Don’t Argue, Win Or Lose
This goes hand in hand with avoiding the fight, but it’s a little bit different. If you get caught in an argument, just accept that you can have only two outcomes from it: win or lose. Settle with one and just move on.
69. Stop Faking Your Life
It’s so easy to get caught in a flow of fakes. Society wants us to politely lie and you need to lie sometimes. Just stop it. Being authentic is the best thing you can do. No need to hide your sorrow, nor your joy. They’re both part of life.
70. Define Goals
Again, that goes hand in hand with writing a personal mission but it’s more than that. It’s the habit of clearly deciding – and, subsequently, describing – where you want to go. Do you have a goal? A passion, maybe? Go for it! And be verbose.
71. Help Others
Reach out and try to see if you can help others. You don’t have to be a Samaritan, just go out there and support somebody. The biggest trick of helping is really surprising: although it seems you’re giving, you’re in fact receiving a lot more.
72. Go Social
Mingle, interact, go out. Get used to meet new people. Make this a habit and you’ll soon get used to do new things too. The goal is not to be the best networker in the world, but to be connected to as many energy sources as you can get.
73. Spend Some Time Alone
Subsequently, make sure you set aside enough time for your own. You don’t necessarily need to recharge, but you need this time in order to get a new perspective. Stop for a while and look around. Where are you? Where do you want to be?
74. Fix Something By Yourself
Go fix a broken window, or a scratch on your car. Don’t call for a specialist, get involved, see how you can have an impact on things around you. Work with your hands, prepare to sweat. It will instantly make you feel better.
75. Create Value
Make things that others need too. Make something useful. Don’t follow blind or outdated commitments, go for what really makes a change around you. Creating value is the core of your activity here and the only thing you really have to strive for.
76. Do A Random Act Of Kindness
Doesn’t have to be in the form of a nice compliment this time. You don’t even need to communicate it to the target person. Just do an incognito service to someone. See how this makes you feel. Think how many times you received that.
77. One More Second
Create the habit of looking at things for one more second. Spend one more second before taking an important decision. Delay something. Time will follow your intention and open some unexpected window for you. Slow it down a little.
78. Understand What People Want From You
What you can do is not always what people want from you. Clearing that confusion alone could bring an immense relief to your life. You don’t have to immediately provide what they’re wanting, but if you do, you may have some big surprises.
79. Break An Old Bad Habit
Breaking a bad habit is difficult. But breaking an old bad habit will free an incredible amount of time into your life. Quit smoking or stop talking on the phone for hours. Whatever you break, it will change your life for the best.
80. Stop Complaining
Complaining is like an open invitation for troubles. The more you complain about something, the more of that something you invite into your life. Cut it out. You don’t get any comfort out of complaining, only troubles.
81. Reject What You Don’t Want
It’s so simple, yet so underrated. Society wants us to complain even when we don’t really like stuff. Like forcing us to smile when we don’t find it funny. Allow yourself to walk away from something you don’t like. Just do it!
82. Being Is Better Than Having
Too much and too often we shape our life’s fulfillment degree to the amount we possess. The fundamental mistake. If you’re doing it, stop it right now. You’re not what you’re having. Being is so much better than having.
83. Listen To Your Critics
This one might be difficult in the beginning but once you get used to it it’s fantastic. You may find out a lot of stuff about yourself that you didn’t know about. You think you are one kind of person, but others may disagree.
84. Don’t Take It Personally
Never. Your world is shaped by your reaction to things, not by the things themselves. Don’t get upset, don’t think that somebody knows you enough to make right assumptions about you. Acknowledge and move on.
85. Laugh
This time is not about smiling. It’s about laughing. Don’t you ever miss another opportunity to laugh. Especially at yourself. The longer your laughing sessions, the shorter your misery ones. Looks like a nice deal, isn’t it?
86. Go With Passion
Don’t let your rational mind stand in the way of your passion. If you found – or at least felt, even occasionally – something that thrills you, you’re there. You don’t need a confirmation on this from anybody. Go with your passion.
87. Trust Your Emotions
Don’t underestimate your emotions. Or overestimate them. Your emotions are your feed-back system and for that they are very important. Trying to ignore your emotions is like depriving yourself from lights in a car running in the middle of the night.
88. Live It Like A Holiday
Ever observed how nice you feel during your holiday? How light, joyful and authentic? Everything is just wonderful. Well, you are on a continuous holiday here. It starts with your birth and end with your death. Live it like a holiday.
89. Make A Story Out Of It
Do you like a good story? I love it. Make everything in your life story-worthwhile. Make it as it would be a fantastic journey and you will be at all time the observer, the hero and the narrator. Create the story of your life.
90. Stop Being A Follower
Admiring is nice. But being admired is even better. Stop trying to fit in other people’s shoes. Find your own path. If that means breaking up completely your lifestyle, so be it. If you are “like” somebody else you can’t be “like” yourself anymore.
91. Watch Your Beliefs
Your beliefs are not you. But they are shaping your life constantly. You have the power to change them at any point in your existence. But in order to do that, you must first start to observe them, to isolate them, to accept them.
92. Stop Lying
To others and to yourself. Although it might ease a complicated situation, a lie is not good in the long run. The trick is that if you’re telling a lie you’re altering your reality. And a distorted reality will be impossible to handle.
93. Stop Reacting To Stuff
And start acting on stuff. Initiate things. Start projects. Predict situations and be there before the hurricane hits. Reacting to stuff is a victim paradigm. Stop being a victim and start acting. Create your life instead of being the creation of others.
94. Live Today
Not yesterday, not tomorrow. Go for what you can do today and leave yesterday behind for good. It’s not here anymore. And tomorrow doesn’t even exist yet, so why bother. All you have is today. Don’t waste it.
95. Expect The Unexpected
If there’s something unusual that happens to you, go for it. The unexpected is a signal of an opportunity. It will not always be nice, this unexpected, but whenever it’s around, magical things are happening. Wait for it. Praise for it.
96. Enjoy
Like being in joy. Like giving permission to yourself to extract joy from any situation you’re in. Even if it’s bad. Or especially if it’s bad. Joy is everywhere, you just have to let it manifest through you. Don’t resist joy. Don’t reject it.
97. Make Your Own Rules
And stick with them. Go for what works for you, not the others. Go for what you want, not the others. Including me. Make your own system and be proud of it. You may upset some people in the process, but hey, that’s life.
98. Love
Unconditionally. Totally. Constantly. Restlessly. Love is the only glue that keeps your life running. You were born out of love and you carry it deep down in your being. Love is never about the others, it’s about you.
99. Get Rid Of Labels
Things are what they are. Don’t use labels anymore, use directly the things. Your notion of “right” and “wrong” are nothing but labels. In a different country your “right” might be “wrong”. Don’t charge yourself with this unneeded burden.
100. No Regrets
Regretting something is another form of not accepting reality. What you can do about it now? It’s gone. It doesn’t exist anymore. Focus on what you can change: your present moment. Not yesterday, not tomorrow. Now. Live now.
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Awesome list dragos!! I’m writing a list of 100 myself on how to achieve personal excellence actually – it’s on my to-do list. I love #83 btw – I usually learn the most from critics than from anyone else.
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Really look forward for your list, Celes, I know already I will find some gems there.
When it comes to learning a new language, can I suggest the planned language, Esperanto
Apart from becoming a living language, it has great propaedeutic values as well.
Your readers might also like to see http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8837438938991452670 A glimpse of Esperanto can be seen at http://www.lernu.net
Thanks for the insight, sounds interesting. I admit I had to look up the word “propaedeutic” in a dictionary, but otherwise I think I got most of your comment. Joking, of course, and I know esperanto is one of the most interesting languages to learn. Thanks for stopping by
Great list! I especially thinking writing goals is a great way to improve your life. It gives you something to be excited about every waking day.
Another idea I’d like to add to your list is lose the weight already! I have lost 82 lbs in the last year and I am finally feeling sexy for the first time in forever! Life is good
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Losing weight is fantastic, but only if you’re overweighted, of course. Exercising should balance that. I lost 13 kilos when I was on a raw food diet and I do know what effect this should have on you. And yes, I am a big fan of writing goals myself
Exactly ,make a life not just a living!!!
That’s why I admire those young entrepreneurs breaking the rules, go for what they want, a very good movie.
http://www.TheYesmovie.comby Louis Lautman.
Ah, the movie name is The YES Movie.
Thanks for the insight, made me curious, I will look into it.
impressive list here dragos. You also took time to give a brief explaination on each point raised. I love the points on spend some time alone, train your focus, live today, listen to your critics…. and a few others. Not sure if i should jump on the band wagon and write 100 ways to identify your purpose(laugh!!!)
nice one here!!!
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By all means, Ayo, do jump on the band wagon and write your own list. Took me significantly more time to write this list then to write a regular blog post, but the benefits were huge. I’m not talking about traffic, but also about discipline, determination and even some self-discovery along the way.
Hi Dragos.
I do #61 and like #82.
Being is unstoppable while having is stoppable when the material is removed. If it wasn’t for the potential for having to be cut off, it would be the route to take.
I enjoyed reading many of these.
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Welcome here and thanks for the comment. Being is always the only route to take, you’re right, having is just an accessory in this trip.
That was a really great list. It was really well written, entertaining, and very practical. I think it should be something that people keep with them as a reminder on a laminated card.
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Thanks for the nice words, but I think it should be a little bit different to squeeze it on a laminated card. I know what you mean, though, and I appreciate that. Maybe I will write an ebook about that, should be easier.
Excellent list Dragos. I’m so impressed with you guys and your lists of 100!
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Thank you, Stephen.
Why don’t YOU write your own 100 list?
Oh my! I could not believe the work that went into this terrific list. Without doubt it’s THE list to end all Live a better Life lists. One could actually take each point and craft a post around each point as they are all so vital and actionable as well.
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Thanks for the nice words. Comment after comment I do think I should actually expand those into separate blog posts (I mean the ones that aren’t already linked from here as separate blog posts).
Freaking solid list and I love what a list like this does for your blog. In so many layers for your blog. Brilliant. There are a bunch on the list that I am currently doing! Ebook is one! OMG! and I plan to launch a side project on my nuwomb blog to help people take action with blogs. I want to help 1000 people take action before 2010.
I’ll be going over the list more detailed tomorrow. so I’ll be back.
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That’s fantastic! This is the kind of goals that are making me thrill
Good luck with that! I feel there will be much more than 1000 
What a delightful list, I really enjoyed reading it – mainly because I’ve done most of these things already and it made me feel good about myself
We all have the opportunity to change what we don’t like and most people just stick to their lives as if they were set in stone!
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Welcome here and thanks for the nice words, appreciate it
You’re right, we do have the power to change and to reverse anything in our lives. All it takes from our part is to really want, nothing more.
Great post. Think I gonna start today!
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Thanks! You can start anytime, as long as you know where you’re heading
Hi Dragos!
Thanks for enlightening me. Due to our hectic lifestyle very often we overlooked even the simplest issue. Very enlightening!
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Hey, Charmaine
Welcome here and yes, we do overloook a lot from our life. Sometimes we overlook our entire life.
My list is so much smaller compared to yours.
Can I steal some from you?
We are going to get a pet, we saw a little Maltese puppy, and Elena cannot take her mind from it!
Wow, that’s wonderful
I totally understand Elena. We thought about getting a dog for Bianca but with our intentions to travel so much we couldn’t properly take care about it. And by all means, feel free to steal as many as you want from me 
wow. must save this on the bkm and hopefully get to it at some point.
My favorite way to live my life is “Living my life powerfully and living the life I love” – simple but powerful nonetheless.
Great post. Good Sunday morning reading.
Cheers Dragons.
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That’s a great way to live your life. It’s actually one of the most impressive personal mission statements I ever heard. May you fulfill it
Thanks a lot.
I cannot believe this list! Wow. As I was reading I would think of something that could be added to the list and every time I would see it farther down the list. I could not think of one thing I could add here. I did have the thought that I wish they gave out a list like this in high school AND went over each topic, one at a time, and how to apply it our lives. I could have used this waaaay back them. Also, you are one determined guy. I am impressed. This must have taken a LOT of work to put together. A lot of thought went into it because you not only list each suggestion but you do a little summery of it. Amazing.
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Hey. Robin
Thanks so much for your nice words. Yes, it took a lot more than a regular post, but as I already said, the benefits are incomparable. The thing with many of those ways is that they were discovered by trial and error. I wish I knew some of them when I was younger too, but I had to discover them one at a time. Sometimes painfully.
Dragos, you have met the challenge and exceeded all expectations. What an awesome list, I hope it helps your blog as my 100 lists have. The summaries with each show how much knowledge you have on these subjects and a great place for anyone to start for personal development.
I love 45-Stop solving the wrong problems and many others.
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Hey, Mike
I finally did it
Thanks for the friendly reminders on moving by butt and start doing some work around here, as you may see, they really, really paid off. As for the blog traffic, I still can’t believe I hit the home page of delicious with this one 
This is amazing – thanks for such a comprehensive list!
Will be coming back here in the future
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Well, thanks for being around
Wow! wonderful list. I’m saving it to my desk top to study
I really like this article. Nice to know person like you.
I follow you on twitter Sir. Greeting from Indonesia.
Salam.
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Nice meeting you too. Indonesia is a fantastic place, I do plan to travel there really soon.
An amazing list. I am happy to see that I do a lot of these, that I forget to do (but fully intend to do) some of the remaining ones, and that I would like to start doing the rest………….thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Welcome here, Farnoosh,
I briefly visited your blog and I see now how you implemented a lot of those ways. And I’m sure that you are capable of doing much more, if you want. I enjoyed your presence here
can’t believe you don’t have a ‘Create Your Own Twitter Account’ or ‘Follow a New Tweeps Every Day’ in your list…
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I think we could safely squeeze this into #72 Go Social, but if you want to count it as separate, what can I say: thanks for the addition. I’m a huge fan of Twitter too, I admit.
I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it *abundantly*
Ok. If you say so. I’m not going to argue about that
Hi! Thanks so much sharing. I posted a link to this article on my blog article. Hope you don’t mind. Thanks so much! ^_^
Hey, thanks for stopping by. And thanks for the link love
Great post! Thanks for this, some real gem’s
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Thanks, glad you found value here
I loved this post! There are so many great ideas here. In fact, they’re all great. It was so inspiring to read this and, as someone who is working hard to live positively in the present moment, I love how you ended this post, with #100: “Focus on what you can change: your present moment. Not yesterday, not tomorrow. Now. Live now.” My motto is live happily ever after now. Don’t wait for some ideal time to come around. What you have is life right now so make the most of it!
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Thanks for stopping by and for the nice words
Yes, we only have one thing, and this is “now”. Yet, we focus so much on the past or the future. Which are not “now”.
Wonderful list! I will use life long.
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I know that some of the items in the list are already common practice for you, but appreciate the comment, as always
Hi Dragos,
What a list you’ve created here! I so much appreciate the time and effort you put in to make this happen! So good! And so many ways to live a better life…something for everyone!
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Hey Lance,
Nice to see you back here and thanks for the nice words. Yes, I guess there’s something for everybody but not for anybody. We’re different (fortunately) and some of us may find other ways to enjoy life, I just wanted to share mines.
Hi Dragos.
Thanks for a great list but…
“25. Avoid Fighting
Fighting is the biggest energy leak of your being. Trying to prove another guy wrong is so against your true nature. You’re here to acknowledge life’s wonders, not to prove anybody’s wrong. They’re not wrong, just have different opinions. And that’s part of life.”
Come on, really? I agree, fighting and arguing is often pointless and a waste of energy but sometimes people are just wrong. The Nazi’s were wrong; Apartheid was wrong.
Chances are from to time most of us will have fights to fight in life. Perhaps better advice would be to pick your fights wisely and avoid those fights you can.
Regards Nick
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Umm,
I’m not there, I’m afraid. If I don’t like something, I take the liberty to walk away, which is number 81. It’s a slightly different approach than “fighting it”. I lived in communism for the first 19 years of my life. I didn’t “fight” against it, I tried to find my way out by reading, keeping a low profile, avoiding direct confrontation and striving to do the best I could under those circumstances. Most of the stuff I know now I learned as teenager under communism. I learned the value of free speech, of personal freedom, of discipline.
Whenever you fight something you make it stronger, In fact, everything you put your attention on, being it “wrong” or “right” becomes stronger, that’s one of the biggest secrets I’ve learned. Regardless of the quality of that attention. You may fight it or embrace it, it’s the same thing, you put your attention onto it.
I just chose to put my attention on things I really want to grow.
Congratulations! A fabulous job on your list, and the explanations.
I agree with your take on the liberty to walk away instead of fighting, especially in the life example you’ve provided. Attempting to impose one’s will upon another person typically only creates more resolve in the other person (to maintain their opinions and/or continue their behavior). This theory can be applied to children on the playground, family relationships, and especially world politics.
My hope is that humanity, through freedom of choice, will continue to realize the benefits of trying to be more loving and responsible human beings.
To sum it all up:
do something!
Live is about moving!
Hey, you said it better than me
Didn’t need 100 ways to say it either!
Excellent list, Dragos. It’s so easy to forget a lot of these. I needed to hear this. Thank you for taking the time to write this.
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Thanks for stopping by and for the nice words, Valerie
No matter where you are, organized life is the better way !
We usually don’t think that much but a small issues creates clutters in the future. I appreciate your efforts to drag down these small issues in the form of great tips !
Stumbled !
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Yeap, totally, an organized life is a better life. However, expecting the unexpected or following a coincidence can be sometimes a fantastic way to spice up things a little bit
Dragos, i’ve just finish to read this post and i think is just brilliant and, despite anyone can say, every step it’s totally possible to accomplish.
I always encourage my friends and job mates to smile every day, do something nice for others, be gentle with others, accept criticism and learn from them, and stop watching crap TV. We’ll be a little more better every day if we can just smile all day long.
Also, i read your post about what you learned from your daughter and i congratulate you for it. Just lovely. I don’t have kids yet but i expect to have one someday.
Regards from Argentina, and sorry for my poor english.
Thanks for being here, Fernando, and for your nice words. I’ve never been to Argentina (in fact, nowhere in South America) but I crave to be there. I think you have a wonderful country.
What an amazing list of ways to change your life.
The one that stuck out as I was going through the list is burning old memories. I think that there are some that should definitely be let go of, but others that should be treasured. Keep things that you can pass on to your children so they can know what you were like at their age, or so you can remind yourself at a later age what you believed and cherished, or to remind yourself of how far you have grown.
Saying something nice to yourself is probably something people don’t think about doing that often. It seems like, for me, it’s easy to make others feel better by saying or doing something nice for them, but I find the hardest time making myself feel better when I’m down in the dumps, and it’s probably because I haven’t learned to apply those same things that I do to others, to myself.
~ Kristi
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Burning some bridges is great for making those decisive steps ahead, but keeping an identity, with what defines you all together, is another. You’re right about that.
As for not saying something nice to yourself, like: “good job”, or “hey, you’re tired, take a break”, I know the feeling. This is why I put it on the list in the first place
live is a feeling, so feel it! realy nice article! thank you
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I feel nice
Thank you!
fabulous advice!
short, but powerful comment. Thanks
I really needed it…Thanks!
Glad you found something useful here
Thanks for that. That last one, no regrets, is such a powerful point and yet something that doesn’t really happen that often as we get stuck in what could have happened.
Thanks again.
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That was also one of the most difficult for me to grasp. Always wondering if I did right or wrong. Not anymore
What a long list.I’ll be honest,i havent finish reading it yet,but i twittered it and stumbled it so that I can read it later.
Credit to Dragos,that gotta take some time to write.
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Wow! What an amazing list! Thanks for posting this. Very, very inspiring. Thank you!
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I thank you for taking the time to read it. And to leave this comment, appreciate it
this totally made my day. every year around my birthday i fall into a slight depression, it never fails. i cannot wait to cross off this list!
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I used to do that too on my birthdays, now I treat every day as my birthday, and the depression is gone
Great posts and good information. Human beings have always been confronted by changes. We have a choice. Good day…
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Yes, we do have a choice. Always
What a great way to start the weekend. Love the post! I am really going to do some of these!
Thanks, and have a great week-end
The list is too long to be grasped all at once. I will just drop by any time I find the need for some inspiration.
I totally LOVE 94 – the “Live today”. It’s one of my fundamental principles. So many people advise you to think about the future, to make plans. While obviously having some kind of plan is a good idea, overplanning is really BAD. I know so many people that live in the future. “after I graduate I will have a nice job”, “after I get the job I can buy a house and a car”, “after I have the house and car I can get married”, and so on, it’s always “I *will* be happy when I will have achieved / obtained that something”. You know what? That’s BS! If you’re not happy *today*, you will not be happy after that big event you’re dreaming about, because you’ll find something else to dream about – that’s just how life is. So living in the present is essential for actually LIVING your life!
I’d add 101: keep a BALANCE. That’s more like a conclusion to your other points. You said things like “go hiking”, “play”, “find new hobbies”, “learn a new language”, but it might not be obvious that the point is actually to *have a balanced life*. A life with hobbies, travels, walking in the nature, playing an instrument, whatever is a healthy life (I talk about mental / spiritual health more than physical). A life with work-eat-TV-sleep is the one that you should try to avoid.
Keep a balance seems more like a whole life philosophy, a way in which you integrate various behaviors into one, big standard. I totally relate to that
thanks a lot for this helpful list of things.
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thanks for your nice words, shibumi
What a great list. I was so pleased I borrowed your article and put it on my blog. I hope you are OK with that. I also linked to your website so everyone that read this list on my blog will end up here.
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You can see it over here.
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I like the different types of subjects you chose i.e. Create A New Habit, Get Rid Of Labels, and Live It Like A Holiday. Great list! I bookmarked this for later usage.
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Excellent post! This cheered me up! needed it right now! Thanks!
Thank you for such a great list, Dragos! May I add another tip – Money is not the answer. Whilst money may allow you to live a ‘better’ life superficially and materialistically, it is not an answer to living a happier life. This is something about which I’m rather passionate, & have posted previously:-
Can Money Buy Happiness? http://vene2ia.com/categories/inspiration/aug-09/money-cannot-buy-happiness/
A simple and yet really helpful list Dragos, thanks for posting it ! Interesting stuff + it put me in a good mood !
This is absolutely the biggest waste of time I have ever not used to waste my time.
Scrolling through this list is like making sentences out of magnetic poetry and not having any nouns.
Sweet Lord.
This is a great guide step by step improvement to a more fulfilling life and fullest experiences and perception of those experiences i’m trying this out hopefully my commitment lasts me long enough to get to my next comment
this is not a waste of time it is painfully obvious that’s what you call rejection and as 15 states is the mindset of fear go become a couch potato Adam kennedy
Wow so many great ideas to live a better live. Thanks for the list. I really like #21 “Be Better, Not Perfect”. Trying to be perfect can be overwhelming so I like the idea of being better because that way I can just focus on one thing at a time and don’t overwhelm myself.
WOW this is one of those list that I need to print off and use as a daily checklist for a happier life. Great write up!
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you should Stop Watching tv and find new friends:)
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100 is TOO MANY… seriously. You want a better life? Live a less complicated one… 100 ways… JEEZ. Here. This is how every living thing on this planet lives THEIR lives to the fullest… it is just the stupid humans that complicate the simplest of processes in the universe- ENJOY LIFE… Ready?
1. Get born.
2. Survive.
3. Reproduce.
4. Repeat 2. and 3. if/as necessary.
5. Die.
See? NO living thing needs more than FIVE ways to live a better life.
Try the veal.
nice read
. I didn’t know about your blog until now, but I guess better late than never
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It is amazing, money has no correlation with happiness after a certain period. But I would not want to live without money.
Great list of actions. I like them especially because I think that action creates solution. You can read about a better life, but without actually doing something to achieve a better quality it is not worth a dime.
So, get out of the couch and start doing something to get closer to your chosen goal.
I wish I could do just half of the things you have mentioned in the list. Basically, if you have a strong willpower you can achieve balance and peace within yourself. For those that were not born with it just have to work hard. That is what I have been trying to do in all my life.
It is true that some people have innate ablities to achieve balance in their lives. On the other hand, it is taught in Buddism that you have to relinquish your desire to achieve piece and I think it works.