8 habits to improve your life [the 31 day challenge]

I propose a game to you.

I am going to expose seven habits that can make your life change for the better remarkably. However, carrying out the seven habits may be too difficult at first so I propose that you choose one of these seven habits and work on it for the next 31 days.

I'm going to give you some preliminary considerations before exposing these seven habits to change your life for the better.

PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS

1) The process to change your life is not going to be easy.

These seven habits will make your life significantly better. However, you don't want to do it all at once. Have a plan of action, that is, take, for example, tip number one and make it a habit to make it a habit for the next 31 days.

In each council I will propose a method of action, I'm going to show you how to get it.

2) You need to be committed.

If you have reached this article it is because you want your life to be better. You need to commit to that change so You can leave the following comment at the end of this article:

"Hello, my name is 'your name' and for the next 31 days I will take advice number (choose the advice that is easiest for you)".

During the next 31 days you will be posting comments about how you are doing with such advice. If you finally stop commenting, we will have understood that you have abandoned your commitment to change your life for the better.

3) You need to be disciplined.

Changing your life for the better entails banishing bad habits and incorporating new habits, and this requires discipline, and to be disciplined you need motivation.

You will find that motivation in the feedback that we are going to give you in your comments.

7 habits that will make your life better:

1) You are going to start exercising.

Choose what type of exercise are you going to do for the next 31 days: walking two hours a day, running for an hour three times a week, swimming for an hour three times a week, ...

You need to establish a specific exercise, establish how much time you are going to dedicate each week, what days you are going to do it and what time you are going to do it. As you see, you need to be very specific in your action plan.

If you choose to follow this habit, leave me your comment with these data that I just told you.

2) Two days a week, you are going to meet someone with whom you feel comfortable.

If you choose to carry out this habit, leave me your comment saying what days of the week you have chosen to meet, at what time, what you are going to do and who you are going to meet. Example: Monday at 10:00 AM I have a meeting with my best friend for a walk and on Thursday at 11:30 AM I have a meeting with a coworker for coffee.

3) You are going to find a space in your day to day to read for at least 45 minutes.

If you choose to carry out this habit, you are going to leave me a comment type "Every day from 22:30 pm to 23:15 pm I am going to read the following book: 'Title of the book'".

At this point you may be interested in this article «The 22 Best Self-Help and Self-Improvement Books«.

4) You are going to have the following sleep habit.

For the next 31 days, you will try to sleep at least 7 hours and you will not go to bed later than 00:00.

This habit is linked to the first habit that I have proposed, that is, if you choose to carry out this habit, you will have to do the first habit, and vice versa, If you choose the first habit, you will have to do this habit number four.

This is because to sleep properly you have to be tired.

Maybe you are interested:

«TOP 8 tips on how to sleep well without pills»

The Guide You Need To Sleep Better [and improve your quality of life].

As well I recommend you take a supplement of melatonin, a natural substance that our brain secretes and that is responsible for regulating our natural sleep cycle.

From the age of 40 our brain begins to secrete less melatonin and it is advisable to take it as a supplement. If you want more information about it, Leave me your comment and I will gladly guide you in this regard.

5) You are going to start eating better.

You are going to incorporate new much healthier eating habits. During the next 31 days you will add more fish, more vegetables, more legumes, less junk food and less pastries to your menu.

You are going to do a weekly planning with lunch and dinner. Choose dishes that you know how to make and keep in mind that you will need a certain time to buy the ingredients and prepare each dish, so remember to leave a space in your schedule to cook.

If you don't have too much time you can take advantage of the weekend to make some lentils, chickpeas, or whatever and then, in tapers, you can freeze it to take it out during the week.

Then I leave you a healthy and balanced meal planning (corresponds to the month of November). This planning belongs to the company that is in charge of feeding my children at school. It can give you some ideas:

If you choose to choose this habit, I advise you to leave your comment sharing your lunch and dinner planning and your progress. This will help you get involved.

6) You will stop criticizing and complaining for the next 31 days.

This habit is not as easy as it may seem. If you go for this habit, it doesn't take a lot of planning. You just have to keep a record of the times you have succumbed to a complaint or criticism. For this registration I invite you to use the comment system below.

If you suddenly find yourself in a conversation where someone is being criticized, go away. Make up an excuse, say you go to the bathroom, or say you need to make a call.

Eliminating complaints and criticism from your life will make you be a much more positive person.

7) You are going to meditate every day for 15 minutes.

You are going to choose a time of day and you are going to meditate for 15 minutes. Of course, if you choose to do this challenge, think about it (or write it better) at what time of day are you going to meditate.

After meditating, leave me your comment explaining your feelings or what problem you have focused on to see it with another perspective.

A consideration before meditating: don't choose a time of day when you can fall asleep. If you do it after eating or at night, you may fall asleep.

I recommend these articles:

An example of meditation

8 Relaxation Exercises and Techniques (to live quietly)

Basic principles for meditation

8) Carry out a volunteer activity.

First you need to find a list of volunteer activities that are carried out in the locality where you reside. You will make up this list by doing a Google search.

You can find these activities by searching like "Volunteering [write the name of your community or town]". Among the results that Google will give you, you will surely be able to make a good list and choose the activity that best suits your needs, interests and availability.

Surely there are many volunteer activities close to where you live: helping disabled people, accompanying the elderly, collaborating with organizations that help the most needy (collecting food, distributing it, educating children in distress or who come from poor families or unstructured, ...), protective of animals, accompaniment of hospitalized children, ...

Once you have chosen which association you can collaborate with, establish what days and at what time you are going to go. Leave me a comment with this data and commit to this goal.

Incorporating this habit into your life will make your life improve remarkably because When we feel useful helping others, our rates of emotional well-being increase.

Well, this list is up to here.

Now it's up to you to start taking the actions that will make your life better. Choose one of these habits and leave me your comment.