100 Ways to Develop Your Mind
1. Do the Thing You Fear the Most. If there’s one thing that will
change your thoughts quicker than anything else, it’s facing your fears.
2. Stand up For Yourself. A lot of people have difficulty in standing
up for themselves. The first time you do it can be very empowering and
your thoughts about yourself will change forever.
3. Stop Talking. It’s great to be silent for just a little while. Our
thoughts turn inward and we begin to appreciate ourselves just a little
more.
4. Strengthen Your Strengths. Sometimes we focus too much on trying
to strengthen our weaknesses when we should be concentrating on
strengthening our strengths.
5. Take A Walk Around an Art Gallery. You might not appreciate art or
participate in it but it’s great to see the thoughts of others on
canvas. It can give us a tiny glimpse of what goes on in other people’s
minds.
6. Blindfold Yourself for a Day. Walk in the shoes of a blind person
for 1 full day, it will forever change the way you think about life.
7. Stand on a Chair for 5 Minutes Per Day. Building self discipline
is a great way to take control of your mind and your thoughts. If you
just get up and stand on a sturdy chair your mind will be wondering what
the hells going on and try and force you to get off the chair.
Disciplining your mind is a great way to start changing your life.
8. Dance When There’s Nobody There. It’s a strange sensation to dance
on your own, although when I have done this I look like a dog having a
seizure, nonetheless it’s a great way to let go of your inhibitions.
9. Give Money to Someone Unexpectedly. Whether it be on the internet,
or in the street, just give a larger than normal donation to someone.
This again is liberating and your thoughts about money will change for a
few moments (that’s all it takes to start the process of changing your
life.)
10. Strengthen Your Thoughts About Yourself. Reinforce your thoughts
about your good points. If you are good at talking to people, tell
yourself this often. If you are good at maths, tell yourself often. This
has the benefit of reinforcing and strengthening your self image.
11. Take A Risk Life. would be boring without ever having taken a
risk in your life. Do something that you didn’t want to do because you
thought you wouldn’t be any good at it. This totally smashes the
boundaries of your comfort zone and your life could change forever.
12. Talk To A Stranger. Again this is breaking our comfort zones, but
just saying hi to stranger in the street or good morning can have an
enormous impact on your day and the person you said hi to.
13. Walk Around The House Naked. I can almost feel the shock at this.
I don’t mean when you’ve got guests in, I mean when everybody is out.
Lock the door and totally liberate yourself and your thinking of what’s
right and what’s wrong. I wouldn’t advise doing it all the time, but
from time to time, it’s a great feeling.
14. Read A Book By An Author You Most Avoid. Reading books by authors
we avoid gives us a chance to take control of our minds and lets us see
another side to our thinking. We’ve got to ask why we avoid them in the
first place, is it something within us that we are avoiding?
15. Write An Article About Yourself. Imagine a newspaper has asked
you to write an article of 1000 words or less about yourself and your
life and they want to know what motivates you in life, now write the
article. This helps put your life into some perspective and gets you
thinking about your childhood and growing up.
16. Stop Contact With Your Down People. If you have people in your
life who constantly drag you down, or are negative all the time, drop
them. Honestly drop them from your life, you are not serving them and
they are not serving you and they are dragging your thoughts down.
17. Believe In Yourself. A lot of people believe their life has been
pre-destined and there’s nothing we can do to change it – absolute
rubbish. YOU are the only person who controls the universe, yes I did
mean universe. Your universe is different from mine so you control your
own universe, think about that and start acting upon it.
18. Meditate Every Day. Another powerful thing that has the power to
change your life and your thinking for good. Retreating into your mind
for a few minutes every day will do you a power of good.
19. Ask For A Discount. When you buy anything from a shop that is
over $100, ask for a discount. Tell the salesman you’d like a 10%
discount on the item. Most people are so afraid of doing this but it’s a
great way to empower yourself and let go of another inhibition, what’s
the worst that can happen?
20. Risk Embarrassment. Imagine if you had seen the person of your
dreams on a bus, or at the store and you didn’t do anything about it how
much would you kick yourself. If this happens to you, do something
about it, don’t keep it hidden. Just say to them you thought you would
come over and say how attractive they looked and felt you had to tell
them. You never know what will happen and how much your life could be
changed. Obviously don’t turn into a weirdo and do it with every good
looking person on the street.
21. Work Toward, What You Think, Is An Impossible Goal. If you work
toward a goal without expectation you don’t care about the outcome as
much. When you don’t care about the outcome, you don’t have as much
expectation.
22. Practice Gratitude. We all know what we don’t have in our lives
because we spend a lot of time wishing we had them, but are we really
thankful for what we have? Spend time every single day being thankful
for the good things we do have in our lives.
23. Do Something Nice And Don’t Tell Anyone About. It We tell others
about our acts of kindness to let them know how nice we are and to seek
approval. If you keep your act of kindness to yourself without ever
telling anyone the feeling of positive energy lasts much longer.
24. Share Your Skills. Everybody has a skill of some kind. When you
share it you not only have the power to help others, but you enhance
your own skill by owning it.
25. Don’t Talk Just Listen. Enhance your listening skills by not
talking when someone is speaking to you. Resist the urge to speak your
views when someone is talking to you, just listen to them and ask them
more open ended questions at the appropriate times. This has two
benefits: a) You can really listen if you are not formulating the
stories in your own head when someone is talking b) you will make the
other person feel great as you are actively listening to them.
26. Write Your Future Life Story. Start from the age you are just now
and start writing your future life story as you’d like it to be. Be as
outrageous as you want and just write about your ideal life and how you
interact with it. Words on paper are powerful and can help shape your
goals.
27. Give Someone A Gift For No Reason. We always assume someone buys
us a gift for a reason whether it be a birthday, christmas or special
occasion. Buy someone a gift just because you know they would like it.
28. Pass On Your Good Books. If you’ve read a book and it changed
your thinking or life in some way, pass it on to someone else who might
benefit.
29. Spend More Time With Your Kids. Your kids will grow up very quickly, spend as much time as you can with them.
30. Forgive Behavior. The way we behave doesn’t necessarily reflect
our true thoughts. Remember this when someone acts out of character and
behaves in a way you don’t approve of.
31. Allow Yourself To Be A Lazy Git. We are so used to filling our
time with useful things to do and being productive we have forgotten the
art of laziness. Being lazy is good every ONCE IN A WHILE and it allows
our mind to slow down and relax.
32. What Is Your Best Quality. Today Every morning for 10 seconds
just state, out loud if you can, what your best quality is. Try and
change it every day. This reinforces your strengths and weakens your
perceived weaknesses.
33. Write A Comment. If you visit a blog you like, leave a comment
and join in the community of people. Or, if there is not much of a
community, be part of starting it.
34. Tell Your Friends And Colleagues How Good They Are. If a friend
or colleague does something good, tell them how good they are at that
particular task. This reinforces someone else strengths or strengthens
their weaknesses and makes them feel good about themselves.
35. Make A Video Of Yourself And Post It To Youtube. Why on earth would you do this? Just because you can!
36. List All Your Worries. Make a list of every single worry you have
at the moment. You will notice that you don’t have as many worries as
you thought. Worrying consumes our thinking and we think our whole life
is one big worry. When you get it down on paper it’s extremely
surprising that you don’t have as many as you’d thought.
37. Work On Each Worry In Turn. Now that you have all your worries
listed. Go through them and start acting on them in turn. If you find
worries you cannot act upon it means there is nothing you can do to
change the outcome of that worry, so forget it, why waste mind energy on
something you cannot control at all?
38. Read About Successful People. If you want to change your thoughts
and change your life read about people who have already done it and use
them as guides.
39. Tweet Your Moods. If you use twitter why not tweet your moods
daily and see if there is some kind of pattern after a few months.
40. Stop Watching Soaps. Soap operas actually have the power to alter
your state of mind. People get so caught up in the emotions of the soap
that they experience what the actors and actresses are doing.
41. Have A News Break. What would happen if you never read a
newspaper for a week? nothing at all, your life wouldn’t change, you
wouldn’t run out of things to talk about, you would still be as up on
the world as everyone else. Newspapers sell because of their doom and
gloom, read it and you are buying into it.
42. Do Something Spontaneous. Jump on a bus without looking at the
destination, book a holiday, take time off work, take your partner away,
buy your kids a gift; do anything and make sure it’s out of character,
(expand that boundary).
43. Write To An Author. Authors are people just like you and I and
they love getting feedback about their work. If a book touched you in
some way or changed you, take time to write to the author and thank
them. Don’t look for a reply, just thank them.
44. Follow your instincts. We don’t trust ourselves nearly enough as
we should. Follow your instincts more and pay attention to the signals
your body is picking up and see where it takes you. You might find that
your conscious brain gets in the way of your body signals a lot of the
time.
45. If You Find Some Money Give It To Charity. If you find money in
the street don’t pocket it, give it to someone who is homeless or better
yet buy them a meal with it. If it’s a suitcase full of money, that’s
obviously a different story.
46. Your Thoughts Really Do Have Power. When you realize this, it
will change your thinking in so many ways. I can’t tell you that it’s
true you have to experience it for yourself.
47. Always Admit It When You Have Made A Mistake. Don’t blame others
or hide behind someone else. Hold your hands up and admit you made a
mistake, no matter what the consequences are. You will be much more
respected this way. However, don’t take the blame for others.
48. Do Something Every Day To Improve Your Mind. Learn a new word, do
an anagram puzzle, sudoku your mind, read a book, read a stimulating
blog post, anything that will help your mind just a little. Just a
little turns into something huge.
49. Change Your Thinking Style. If something is not working out, try
and change your thinking style and come at it from another angle. This
is true of everything in life.
50. What Do You Really Want To Do In Life. You will find most people
cannot answer this question simply because they are plodding along with
life. When you know what you really want to do with your life then your
life takes another path.
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