5 Simple Things That Will Make Your Life Better
Perspective is more important than anything else. List three positive things that occur to you each day.
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For the next seven nights, spend ten minutes each night before going to bed. List three positive things that happened today, and explain why. It is important to have a written record of the events. You can use your computer or a journal, but you should keep a copy. It is not necessary that the three events are of great importance (“My husband bought my favorite ice-cream for dessert today on his way home from work”), but it can be.
Answer the question, “Why did it happen?” next to each positive event.
Want to be more innovative?
As many perspectives as you can, and let them crash around in your mind.
These patterns are simple but when combined, they create a whole which is more intelligent than its parts. Take a walk, cultivate your hunches, write down everything, but leave your folders cluttered, embrace serendipity, make mistakes that are generative, take up multiple hobbies, frequent coffeehouses, and other liquid networks, follow the links, let others build upon your ideas, borrow, recycle, or reinvent. Build a tangled banking system.
Want to improve your friendships?
Keep in touch with your loved ones every two weeks, and ensure that the good times outnumber the bad.
The fifteen high-performance groups averaged 5.6 interactions, positive for every negative interaction. Nineteen low-performance groups had a ratio of. Three hundred sixty-three positive/negative interactions. They had three negative interactions with every positive interaction.
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4) Do you want a better romantic relationship
Add a little thrill. Roller coasters beat counseling. The “misattribution” of emotions is what happens. We associate our charges with people, even if those people had nothing to do with them.
Most of the men crossing the wooden bridge looked at the research assistant and saw a studious researcher assistant. For the men who crossed over the rope bridge, adrenaline and anxiety translated into an increased romantic interest in her. Their physiological responses affected their perceptions. The bridge’s ability to enhance the romantic attraction of men earned it the nickname “the love-bridge” among the psychological community.
Want to be more efficient?
Use checklists regularly. Use them. They are simple and effective.
What happens if you use checklists consistently in an intensive-care unit? Deaths stop.
The number of patients not receiving the recommended care fell from 70% to 4%. In addition, the incidence of pneumonia decreased by 25%, and 21 fewer patients were killed than the year before. Researchers found that having doctors and nurses work in the I.C.U. The researchers found that having doctors and nurses in the I.C.U. Create their checklists of what they think should be done every day, improved consistency to the point where, within a couple of weeks, the length of stay of patients in intensive care was reduced by half.
