1. Eliminate fried foods or fast foods from your daily diet. Once in a while is fine. Eating fast food 4 times a week is terrible. Fast food has a ton of salt, fat, and carbs that sap your energy. When you go to these places you spend too much money and tend to drink carbonated sodas with your meal. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and less foods that are manufactured in plants! If you must eat out, get a salad for a change.
2. Walk 20 minutes a day, 5 days a week, outside if possible.
3. Drink plenty of water. Cut back on the caffeine, alcohol, and soda. This will help your rest quality as well as your digestive health. Being dehydrated is bad for you.
4. Forgive others. Carrying bitterness around only eats you from the inside.
5. Contact a friend you haven’t been in touch with for a while. Relationships matter.
6. Meet somebody new this week. Go out of your way to do this. I have some great neighbors and I’ve gone out of my way to introduce myself.
7. Smile.
8. Buy a DVR and record your late night shows so you can get more sleep.
9. Grow something you can eat. If you live in an apartment, grow something in planters like herbs. If you live in a small house, plant a 4 foot by 4 foot garden and plant things that will have success. If you live somewhere like a condo or apartment with a porch that gets partial sun, grow mint or oregano – these plants love the shade.
10. Don’t compare your life to others – our journeys are all different
11. Read a book. Figure out how to do this for at least 30 minutes a day.
12. Eat smaller dinners and eat dinner earlier.
13. Find something that you spend money on that is a total waste and then eliminate it. Do you really need to drink a soda or coffee every single day? If you eliminated a soda a day, that is $30.00 a month or more you could give to your church, a child’s college fund, or perhaps a vacation fund. Chances are, this wasteful spending is also a waste of your time.
14. Give of your time or resources in some way. Could you do something in your church? Could you help somebody out?
15. Call someone in your family