Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Uncomplicate Your Life 100+

As I was pinning on Pinterest this morning I stumbled upon a picture that read {100 Ways to Uncomplicate Your Life} Had to click on it and read more.....LOVED IT! HAD TO SHARE IT!  I found this on LIVE THE CHARMED LIFEAfter you read these just imagine if 1/4 or the world did 1/2 of these.  Man, the world would be a much better place.  Think about it...  Try it...

1. Don’t try to read other people’s minds
 
2. Get up 30 minutes earlier so that you don’t rush/get a ticket while driving too fast/have to explain why you’re late/get fired
 
3. Get 8 hours of sleep per night, so that you think more clearly
 
4. Stick to your budget
 
5. Start saving and investing every week, no matter how little you can spare
 
6. Balance your checkbook
 
7. Don’t try to be friends with everyone. Cultivate closer relationships with fewer people.
 
8. Don’t try to do business with everyone. Identify your target client and take very good care of them.
 
9. Before getting angry, ask yourself if it will really matter in 20 years
 
10. Focus on being a good person, not on pleasing others
 
11. Stay home this Saturday and finish off that nagging chore
 
12. Kiss and make up
 
13. Make a weekly menu, and shop for only those items at the market
 
14. Ask your grandparents the best way to uncomplicate life, and try it for a month
 
15. Fill up your gas tank when it’s half full
 
16. Don’t drink alcohol when you’re tired, sad, or mad
 
17. Pay your bills on time
 
18. Get an annual physical examination
 
19. Say “I love you” to your significant other and to your children. Studies show that more marriages last, and fewer kids use drugs, when these words are spoken every day
 
20. For just one day, imagine everyone’s intentions are good because most people’s are
 
21. Give away clothes that haven’t been worn in two years
 
22. Throw out clothes that are in disrepair and that can’t be mended
 
23. When you have a conflict with someone, talk it out. Don’t let it turn into more than it is
 
24. Know what your priorities are in life, and act as if they are your priorities
 
25. Tell the truth
 
26. Don’t cheat
 
27. Don’t steal
 
28. If you’re holding on to a ridiculous grudge, let it go
 
29. Clean your house weekly, so that it doesn’t become too large a chore
 
30. Do your best at work, or at school
 
31. Don’t eat when you aren’t hungry
 
32. Eat when you are hungry
 
33. Be yourself
 
34. Say no unapologetically
 
35. Cook simple meals
 
36. Don’t try to keep up with the Joneses
 
37. Pay off your car before buying a new one
 
38. Organise your desk at the office
 
39. Change your smoke alarm batteries when the clocks spring forward, and again when they fall back
40. Organise your important paperwork
 
41. Take only half the clothes that you planned to take with you on holiday
 
42. Help your children with their homework every night, and have an open dialogue with their teachers
 
43. Have white sheets and white towels in children’s rooms/bathrooms, because they’re easily bleached
 
44. Spend your time with nice people
 
45. Avoid drama
 
46. Don’t text or talk on the phone while driving
 
47. Turn off the television/video games/computer; they’re time consumers
 
48. Don’t engage in office politics
 
49. Refuse to gossip, or talk behind other people’s backs
 
50. Do the dishes right after dinner
 
51. Never go to sleep angry
 
52. Ask nicely for what you need and want
 
53. Walk 10,000 steps per day to help your heart
 
54. Do 20 push-ups before speaking in anger
 
55. Leave work at work
 
56. Don’t befriend anyone that isn’t trustworthy
 
57. Don’t envy others
 
58. Have your oil changed
 
59. Take vitamin C BEFORE you catch a cold
 
60. Don’t work more than 8 hours per day
 
61. Weed your garden weekly
 
62. Wash your car weekly
 
63. Have a spring cleaning month every year, and do one room at a time
 
64. You don’t need to be best friends with work colleagues, but build respectful partnerships
 
65. Don’t drink and drive
 
66. Don’t look for reasons to be angry or sad, look for reasons to be happy. You’ll always be able to find plenty of each
 
67. Be friendly with your neighbours
 
68. Return emails and phone messages promptly
 
69. Schedule in free time
 
70. Don’t procrastinate
 
71. Do what you say you’ll do, when you say you’ll do it
 
72. Be more flexible when you’re able to be
 
73. Forgive and forget. End of story
 
74. Break the consumerism habit…put a three month moratorium in place on buying anything not deemed a necessity
 
75. Start your diet on September 1, rather than January 1, so that you won’t also have holiday pounds to lose
 
76. Take care of any health issues or concerns
 
77. Have your tires rotated
 
78. Have your brakes checked
 
79. Have your eyes checked
 
80. Don’t let your imagination run away with you
 
81. Let go of perfection in others
 
82. Let go of perfection in yourself
 
83. Don’t try to help those that refuse to help themselves
 
84. Find a way to reduce your commute to work
 
85. Have an alloted amount of worry time per day/week, that you strictly abide by
 
86. Drink more water
 
87. Eat more salmon
 
88. Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill
 
89. Wear your hair in a classic, easy to care for style
 
90. Finish what you start
 
91. Wear classic clothes and shoes that never go out of style
 
92. Create a daily routine
 
93. Have a 1, 5, 10 and 20 year plan for your financial and life goals
 
94. Slow down
 
95. Eat out less often
 
96. When you ask your husband which outfit looks best, thank him for his answer and wear the one he liked rather than focusing on why he didn’t like the other one
 
97. Allow your children to grow up
 
98. Clean out your garage, and donate anything that hasn’t been used in the past year
 
99. Stretch every day
 
100. If a relationship is over, let it go
 
and I guess folks enjoyed the first 100 that they added another 100.  ENJOY!!
 
1. Believe that everything will turn out just fine in the end, because it usually does
 
2. Learn the basics of investing, so that you’re able to grow your wealth
 
3. Say exactly what you mean with kindness
 
4. Believe in something bigger than yourself
 
5. File your taxes promptly
 
6. Be a peacemaker, not a warmonger
 
7. Eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables per day
 
8. Don’t confuse love with sex
 
9. Before making any major decision, sleep on it
 
10. Pray, meditate or reflect every day
 
11. If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all
 
12. Do unto others as you’d have them do unto you
 
13. Find a reason to laugh every day
 
14. Teach your children about art, music, and literature
 
15. Teach your children how to save, invest and manage money
 
16. Don’t blame others for your situation
 
17. Accept that you can’t change anyone’s nature, including your own
 
18. Don’t be sad in order to make someone else happy
 
19. Don’t be less than you are to make someone else more comfortable
 
20. When you move to a new city or town, make friends quickly
 
21. Don’t harbour ill will towards authority for no valid reason
 
22. Don’t complain unless you have a solution
 
23. Make peace with your parents
 
24. Tell your young children “no” when necessary
 
25. All things in moderation
 
26. Buy white dishes that never go out of style
 
27. Take good care of yourself so that you’ll be able to do more for others
 
28. Understand that no one was put on this earth to make you happy
 
29. Allow others to make themselves happy
 
30. Be tolerant of other cultures, lifestyles, and religions
 
31. Don’t be defensive. Listen calmly to constructive criticism, act if it’s accurate, disagree politely if it isn’t.
 
32. Tell yourself the truth
 
33. Stop making negative comments about your body, your mind, or your beauty
 
34. Work harder on making the inside pretty, and less on making the outside pretty
 
35. Make due with what you have
 
36. Work to live, and live to eat
 
37. Fall madly, deeply, crazy in love, and don’t hold anything back
 
38. Take people at their word, until you’ve been shown that you can’t
39. Have your teeth cleaned every six months
 
40. Floss
 
41. Have a weekly date night with your partner
 
42. Don’t let your children become the center of your family; they need to begin their own life someday
 
43. Don’t make your children feel guilty for beginning their own life
 
44. Smile at others as often as possible
 
45. Be too busy to care what others think, but not too busy to care for others
 
46. Take the 100 Thing Challenge
 
47. Live by the phrase “vive le difference”
 
48. Be monogamous
 
49. Cry when you need to
 
50. Tell your children that you believe in them, and be their number one fan
 
51. Agree to disagree
 
52. Don’t try to control others, accept them instead
 
53. Don’t try to control the situation, accept it instead
 
54. Don’t let pride stand between you and something you want
 
55. Let your silly side out more often
 
56. Sit up straight
 
57. Stand up straight
 
58. Stay home and rest when you’re sick
 
59. Don’t pretend to be sick
 
60. Don’t drive when you’re tired
 
61. Do your best to make others feel comfortable
 
62. Don’t keep guns in your home
 
63. Set healthy boundaries with others
 
64. Be careful not to say something in anger that cannot be taken back
 
65. Learn to like yourself
 
66. Take responsibility for your actions, even if it’s embarassing
 
67. If you don’t know the answer to a question, say so
 
68. Learn how to find the answers to things you don’t know
 
69. Stop smoking
 
70. Break your addiction to your iPhone or Blackberry
 
71. Create a basic wardrobe of quality classics, and only buy what you need to replace what has worn out
 
72. Have your pets checked regularly by their vet, including their immunization records
 
73. Stop waiting
 
74. Start living
 
75. Write thank you notes
 
76. Don’t compare yourself to others
 
77. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem
 
78. Read more
 
79. Skip more
 
80. Remove the television from your bedroom
 
81. Be present more often
 
82. Be a human being, not a human doing
 
83. Don’t wait until it’s too late to tell someone that you love them
 
84. Laugh at yourself
 
85. Stay in touch with people that remind you where you came from
 
86. Don’t be ashamed of your upbringing
 
87. Stop thinking the world owes you something
 
88. Realise that you owe the world your best self
 
89. Honour your elders
 
90. Be careful not to become self-absorbed
 
91. Give up the belief that great wealth, great beauty, or great fame will make you happy. It won’t.
 
92. Learn what does make you truly, utterly, undeniably happy on a lasting basis
 
93. Give more than you get
 
94. Stop making excuses
 
95. Stop being angry at the world
 
96. Throw out the self help books and get on with it
97. Don’t over analyze
 
98. Realize that no one in your life is perfect, and neither are you
 
99. Let out a huge sigh of relief at that realization
 
100. See change as a lovely ending to a book you’ve just finished reading, and go out and find the next book

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