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Nine Ways to Improve Your Quality of Life

1. Think daily. Meditate. Spend time each day alone with your thoughts. This surely isn’t the first time you’ve heard that advice, there’s a reason forthat! There’s also a reason that this is the first step in the list. Doing the other things in the remaining nine suggestions without taking some time to reflect almost negates any benefit gainedelsewhere.

2. Get in the zone. Not only will these be your most productive moments in life (the 20% of the time where you accomplish 80% of the results) but it will be a boost to your confidence thatwill alter the decisions you make elsewhere in life.

3. Make it a point to do something bold every day. Step out of your comfort zone; leave the routine even if for only a second. This mightmean talking to someone that you generally wouldn’t talk to or starting a project that you feel intimidated by.

4. Learn something new. Pick a topic, preferably something you know nothing about andlearn something about it. A good source of inspiration for this can be the newspaper or internet. It helps to retain it if you have time to make a note of what you learned or explain it to someoneelse, but even if you don’t get the chance to do that, your brain will thank you for the new patterns you introduce.

5. Debate something. If you think you know about something, nothing will proveit like arguing it with someone who’s smarter or more informed than you. Find a friend you can debate with who has ideas that are different from your and who won’t be offended by debating them–this iseasier said than done, but it can provide you with some of the best mental stimulation possible.

6. Spend time with a child. If you have one, consider yourself lucky, if you don’t, I bet you havefriends who would be happy to let you borrow theirs for a few hours. It doesn’t matter what age they are, children see the world entirely different. Look at it from their eyes. Be their hero....