This is optimal living daily episode 1283, how to make big change, small, 8 simple ways to close one chapter and begin another by cornycarverofbemoreless.com, and a numerator justimolic, reading you blogs and articles every single day of the year to help you live a more meaningful life. It's Father's Day now. It's happy Father's Day to all kinds of fathers, including fathers of pets. I hope you're having a great one, or had a great one if you're listening after the fact which many people do, and is totally acceptable, I appreciate it.
Anyway, I'll keep this short, get right to it, and start optimizing your life. How to make big change, small, 8 simple ways to close one chapter and begin another by cornycarverofbemoreless.com. Whether it's the end or beginning of a year, or a phase, or a season in your life, consider these recommendations to close one chapter or an entire book, and open another. If you want to make space for a brilliant new year or new season in your life, intentionally close the one you are leaving behind.
There are 8 simple ways to make the transition you may be considering. Please note the tiny steps within each recommendation. Every change you make is a result of hundreds of tiny steps, and they all count. The more you recognize their importance, the more willing you'll be to take a tiny step towards change instead of giving up because change feels too big.
Make big change, small, 8 simple ways to close one chapter and begin another. As you go through this list, notice what resonates with you. Close the gap between inspiration and action, and choose one. You can always come back to the others, but start with one.
Number 1. Simplify your closet. If you want to change your life, start with your closet. Eliminate closet chaos, create space in your home, and enjoy more peace in your life with minimalist fashion challenge project 333.
Tiny steps. A. Read more about it before dismissing it, at bemoreless.com slash project to dash 333. B.
Create a uniform with a few of your favorite items. Or C. Invite or dare a friend to join you in dressing with less for 3 months. Number 2.
Create a morning routine. When you become more intentional about how you start your day, things begin to shift on the inside and the outside. I call this the morning routine effect. Tiny steps.
A. Stop saying you aren't a morning person. It's a great excuse, but it doesn't matter. Start your morning routine whenever your morning starts, even if it's in the afternoon.
B. Wake up and write down three things you are grateful for. C. Stretch in bed.
Wiggle your toes. Roll your hips from side to side. Reach your fingers to the ceiling. Stretch your lungs too and take a few deep breaths.
Or D. Hide your phone. Do whatever it takes to be digital free until you've enjoyed your morning routine. Number 3.
Choose to leave the worst behind. If your year was full of ups and downs like mine, identify the worst of it and leave it behind. Tiny steps. A.
Let go of things that make you sad. If you are holding on the physical reminders of the worst, let them go. B. Write it down and ceremoniously burn it.
Or rip it up. Or C. If it's not that easy and the worst continues to weigh you down, ask for help. Number 4.
Declutter. If you really want to know what matters in your life, get rid of everything that doesn't. Tiny steps. A.
Put a box next to your door and drop something in it every day until it's full. B. Try the minimalism game. C.
Let go of 100 items in less than an hour. Or D. Join a simple year, 12 months of guided simplicity, and spend January actively decluttering with simplicity author and advocate, Brooke McCallery. Number 5.
Embrace the margin. When an appointment cancels or something falls off your to-do list, don't replace it. Stop filling all the spaces with more items on your to-do list. Let's do more B.
Tiny steps. A. Stop measuring. Let's stop measuring who we are by what we accomplish.
We need to measure less by what we cross off our to-do list and more by what's on our heart, by how we feel, and by how we treat people. B. Linger longer. Think about the evenings you've sat around a table after meal, talking, and laughing, instead of rushing clean up the dishes.
You fell in love with the people around you in the evening you shared. Likewise, lingering over a sunrise, a good book, a long walk, or a moment of solitude encourages love. Love of what you are experiencing, love of who you are spending time with, and love of who you are. Or C.
Stop talking about it. Let's stop telling each other how busy we are. Number 6. Change your mood.
I'm fascinated by how connected our minds and bodies are, or if you can shift your mood simply by shifting your body. You can. If you have tiny steps from my friend Rachel at MindBodyWise.com, tiny steps, hey, losing your jaw. Start with a huge open mouth stretch, sticking your tongue out as far as you can.
Follow this stretch with a little jama-sauge by doing circular movements with your fingertips at the hinge where your lower jaw meets your upper jaw. B. Relax your belly. Your gut is known as your second brain.
There are more receptors for specific hormones related to mood in your gut than in your brain, so take a moment to breathe with the intention of inflating your belly. With each breath, feel your belly soften and the muscles of your core release. See, open your arms, fan your feathers, so to speak, and take up space with your upper body. Let your system know that you don't need protection right now.
As you open your arms, breathe in deeply and repeat in your mind, I am safe, I am at ease, all is well. Number 7. Use social media for good, more not at all. Is social media adding value to your life and or business?
More not. Continue to ask this question and experiment with how you use Facebook, Instagram, or other social channels. Tiny steps. A.
Take a Facebook occasion. Deactivate your account for 30 days or longer, and see how it feels. B. Curate your feeds.
Find some accounts that frustrate you, or bring you down, follow uplifting helpful groups and people. See, remove social apps from your phone or commit to visiting once a day or once a week instead of mindlessly checking in when you are bored. Number 8. Redefine your resolutions.
Whether you make formal resolutions or goals or not, redefine how you commit to change. Don't tie your success to the results. When you are hyper-focused on the end of the goal or a specific measurement, you discount everything that unfolds along the way. There's great opportunity for growth and joy long before you reach the end.
What's more successful than that? Tiny steps. Celebrate every tiny step in the midst of big change. B.
Journal your progress. Sometimes we forget how far we've come. C. Give yourself permission to change direction.
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