Okay, so this is an app recommendation and a book recommendation in one. Basically if you need more gratitude in your life, this is easiest way I have found to get it. It literally takes only 5mins or less each day, so why not try it. I have found the book to be best, but the app is great if you are travelling, or need to do the journal whilst on the go.
Pic below is from the five minute journal website, but gives a good overview of what it is all about:
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What would you do with an extra hour per day? More from the Blog What if you assumed every interaction was for the long term? How would that affect your actions? That guy who cut you up in his car. That lady that won’t move out of the way on the pavement. That annoying person at work in a different department. An assumption of a one-time interaction gets you off the hook. It allows you to vent from a place of emotion as there are few consequences. What if the guy in the car was your boss? What if that lady was your grandma? The annoying person at work the one person you need to unlock a new project? “If you ran into an asshole in morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole” ~ Fictional character Raylan Givens in TV series Justified – from Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss Fed up of meeting hell? Our iPhone app can help. Find out more.
What would you do with an extra hour per day? More from the Blog Everyone was saying 2016 was terrible because:
None of the above made any material impact on my day to day life. If I hadn't watched the news I would be hard pressed to tell something had changed. It is easy to watch the news, regurgitate how bad things will be, prophesize about the next thing to worry about. If you don't then you are stupid, right? I think I had quite a lot to deal with last year and still I do not think 2016 was bad despite: - I lost over £4k in my first business venture - my wife took a leave of absence due to work related stress - my dad was diagnosed with two types of aggressive inoperable cancer (and almost died from infection) - a close friend of the family died of cancer - even my hedgehog died of wobbly hedgehog syndrome. But this was still the best year ever. I have been having the best year ever since 2005. This is when I made the choice to both appreciate what I have and consistently strive for better. Since then, I have travelled the world in holiday sized chunks; increased by salary by 200%; met my soulmate and got married; and got in the best shape of my life. What a waste of energy and time thinking that a whole year was bad and hoping that the next one will be better. Hope is not a good strategy. Do something to make your life better. Your relationships, your tithing, your community, yourself. And then maybe you will find that everything is okay. Just as it has been all the time. Turns out you have not practiced enough gratitude to notice yet. If you are not sure what to be grateful for then maybe you need to recalibrate your give-a-shit-ometer. If you need any more reasons to be grateful: · If you don't live in Aleppo and/or are not in mortal danger. · If you can read this on the internet realise the majority of people on the planet cannot. · If you can stream any documentary or read any book instantly on your iPad realise you have access to more knowledge than any other generation that has ever lived on the planet This is the best time to live and we are convincing ourselves it isn't. Let's get a grip humans! Fed up of meeting hell? Our iPhone app can help. Find out more.
What would you do with an extra hour per day? There is no worse habit than complaining for destroying productivity. In Ascending order:
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What would you do with and extra hour per day? Imagine you have a bad day, something has not gone your way or you have an important decision to make. You may benefit from taking stock on a mental give-a-shit-ometer. A suggestion below. On a scale of 1-10 how bad is this (thing, problem, conflict): 10. You have just been blown up by an IED and have moments left to live 9. You have lost a limb or limbs 8. You have just been wounded 7. You are being shot at 6. You have just made a decision that will kill someone to save someone else being killed Okay, if you are not in a war zone then I am guessing you are already down to a 5. Let’s move on to financial: 5. You do not have enough money for food, clothes or shelter 4: 4.8. You have just made a decision that will bankrupt an entire country, if not the world 4.5. You have just made a decision that will bankrupt your company 4.2. You have just made a decision that will bankrupt yourself If you are reading this, then chances are that here is where most of your problems will start: 3. You are overweight, unhealthy and do not like yourself. You will die slowly of first world diseases; you know this and yet you are eating a bag of Cheetos as we speak. 2. You felt aggrieved by someone else’s actions (wife cheated; friend spoke to a guy you like; someone cut you up on the way to work) 1. You felt aggrieved by someone else’s words (Trump said something stupid; Glenda “always” knows how to push my buttons; my boss is an asshole) Why do we care so much about items 1-3? Because that is all we have to care about. Not so bad after all is it? Gratitude solves a lot of problems before they start. Fed up of meeting hell? Our iPhone app can help. Find out more.
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