101 Practices for a Great Life
1. Get to bed earlier. Get up earlier.
2. Pay yourself first. Learn to invest wisely.
3. Find one extra hour in your day for personal development.
4. Are you doing what matters most? Log your time and where you spend your money.
5. Greet others enthusiastically.
6. Record great ideas on audiocassette or on 3x5 cards, or notebook.
7. Set the tone before your week begins
8. Read magazines
9. Focus on your purpose; not results
10. Improve your communication skills
11. Practice smiling – and making faces
12. Use natural light, candles, full-spectrum lighting
13. Learn to meditate; work to focus your mind.
14. Be still; just be.
15. Reduce, reuse, recycle
16. Write down your negative thoughts. Get them out of your head.
17. Treasure your time. Spend it wisely.
18. Have a good laugh
19. Live in moderation
20. Everything is created twice – in thought and reality
21. Set physical fitness goals
22. Experience how others live
23. Surround yourself with what you desire
24. Exercise daily
25. Avoid negativity; associate with positive people.
26. Turn off the TV
27. Do not gossip
28. Do not judge; you can’t do it without judging yourself.
29. Surround yourself with love – or pictures, symbols
30. Avoid wheat and dairy; most people are allergic.
31. Eat fresh; if it comes out of a box, can or package it probably isn’t too good for you.
32. Stop the coffee/caffeine habit; adrenalize no more.
33. Take Echinacea in cold season to boost your immune system.
34. Slow down
35. Try natural healing first; your body is amazing.
36. Practice excellence
37. Take quality vitamins
38. Be your own best friend
39. Breathe!
40. Know thy neighbor
41. Bring nature indoors
42. Spend time outside
43. Serve others
44. Know how you want to be perceived
45. Keep a journal
46. Pray, meditate, visualize
47. Invest in tapes
48. Cultivate relationships
49. Be loving
50. Take time for yourself 28-09-2011
51. Eliminate tolerations
52. Enroll objective support – not friends or family
53. Be kind
54. Remember names
55. Do what you don’t want to do.
56. Become other-conscious; it reduces self-consciousness.
57. Recognize stereotypes
58. Learn to laugh at yourself
59. Practice innovation
60. Develop your character. You choose who you want to be.
61. Acknowledge people you admire; who make your life better.
62. Practice optimism. It’s more fun than pessimism.
63. Embrace your fears. Do that which you fear.
64. Be authentic; the world wants to know the real you.
65. Be vulnerable. It’s the only way to grow and connect.
66. Start the day on a high note.
67. You don’t have answer the phone!
68. Be on time.
69. Be prepared; it isn’t just for Boy Scouts.
70. Keep your agreements.
71. Drink lots of water.
72. Purchase music that helps you feel good. Dance if you like.
73. Stay in touch.
74. Imagine the possibilities; dream.
75. Spend time before bed to reflect.
76. Keep those business cards.
77. Under promise, over deliver.
78. Develop a network to get the information you need, when you need it.
79. Read, read, read
80. When you listen, listen.
81. Be present; there has never been a better time than right now.
82. Take breaks; stay fresh.
83. Take action; be proactive.
84. Take the shortest route with the least resistance.
85. Be humble
86. Have a plan; have a strategy.
87. Stretch (Yoga highly recommended)
88. Closing your eyes removes distractions
89. Ask for what you want.
90. Give what you want.
91. Keep up on current trends
92. Be forgiving, for your own good.
93. Never complain. Provide solutions.
94. Have a mentor. Be a mentor.
95. Structure creates freedom
96. Contact someone in your network daily
97. Give up being right and go for the result
98. Try aromatherapy, naturopathy, homeopathy
99. Attend seminars, continuing education
100. Become an effective public speaker
101. Clear space for new opportunity
