10 Goals for today

As I’ve mentioned before, one of the best ways to have a positive effect on your life today is to make a small change or take a small risk. Thinking big is good but small actions are more manageable and easier to achieve. With that in mind, here’s a list of 10 goals, any of which you could set yourself for today or tomorrow.

1. Get up an hour earlier.
Spend the time doing something you enjoy. Read a paper, watch the sun come up or just relax and drink a nice cup of tea.

2. Go for a walk.
If it’s too dark when you get home from work or school then try a walk after lunch. Just 2o minutes will help you to feel calmer and healthier.

3. Read a book.
We all say we haven’t the time but still manage to waste hours on front of the tv or our computers. Dust of that book you bought months ago and get started.

4. Make yourself a meal.
Not a microwave meal, a real meal with real healthy ingredients, it will taste all the better because you made it yourself.

5. Listen to some music.
Your favourite album or a relaxing radio station. I use last.fm to hear recommended music based on my own tastes.

6. Write a list of all the things you would like to do and decide your first step towards one of them. Why not draw a mindmap of all your goals?

7. Meditate.
This is something I don’t do often enough but when I do I use the “Heart of the Rose” method as taught in the book The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

8. Call a friend or family member just to catch up with them or maybe make a date to catch a movie or go for coffee.

9. Clean up your paper work.
We have a drawer at home called the “Drawer of Doom” it’s where we throw all our non urgent bits and pieces of paper work and it gradually becomes a mountain of rubbish. Every so often I dive in, clean it out and do some filing. It feels good to clear it out!

10. Book that appointment, you know, the one you’ve been putting off.
Dentist, Councilor, Life Coach or Doctor appointments are all example of appointments that can be put off, it’s a fantiastic weight off your mind when you finally do book them.

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