50 Good Habits

Good Habits

1. Get up early in the morning and go to bed early. Don’t go back to sleep if you wake up before your alarm.
2. Have a heavy breakfast
3. Eat healthy, drink healthy
4. A big NO to addictions
5. Exercise daily
6. Set your priorities and schedule your work ahead of time. Make sure you do it in time too.
7. Don’t hold grudges against anyone. Forgive where you can.
8. Try not to form biased opinions about anyone
9. Your close ones are the best gift you have. Take good care of them.
10. Listen more
11. Speak only when it’s most fruitful
12. Control your anger. People are least themselves when they are angry.
13. Say good things about people. If you don’t have any good to say about someone, stay silent.
14. Practice proper cleanliness and hygiene
15. You are in control of your mood. Don’t depend on anyone else to brighten you up.
16. Be goal oriented through your life
17. Keep a positive attitude
18. Be open to criticism
19. Give the best in whatever you do
20. Learn from the mistakes of the past, forget bad memories, and press on to greater achievements.
21. Nurture your hobbies and maintain recreational activities which will sharpen your life skills
22. When someone trusts you, prove yourself worthy of it
23. Maintain respect for people regardless of how you are treated by others
24. Focus on those few people that really care for you than trying to impress those who make you feel depleted
25. Stay in the company of those having a great character and morals and avoid bad influences
26. Look for the good in everyone, and make them feel worthwhile
27. Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own
28. Whenever you help someone make sure to not expect anything in return
29. Share as long as it’s not a threat to anyone. Abstain from over-sharing.
30. Use humor sensibly
31. Live in the present moment
32. Don’t take life way too seriously
33. Stop tying to control everything
34. Compliment yourself
35. Say sorry when you know you should
36. Make constructive use of your commute time
37. Get a mentor and seek his counsel when the going gets tough
38. Read good books and watch good movies (if doubtful check the IMDB list)
39. Don’t abuse resources. Save water, electricity, time, money - whatever and whenever you can.
40. Eat only as much as you can
41. When in doubt take a dump
42. Save an empty jar and fill it with notes of good things that happen this year. Then, next year, you can empty the jar and see what awesome stuff happened that year.
43. When writing an email, leave the recipient email field blank until you’re ready to send it. This prevents accidental emails. Also additionally, you can delay your outgoing emails by a minute to avoid sending out emails that haven’t been proofread or don’t have the attached documents.
44. Wait a few months before sharing a lifestyle change
45. Stay updated with the news
46. To remove tourists from photos, place your camera on a tripod, snap 15 photos every 10 seconds, open them up in Photoshop, and pick File > Scripts > Statistics, and choose Median.
47. Get the WiFi passwords at various places by checking the comments section of their FourSquare accounts.
48. Carry a box and a bin with you as you clean. A bin can be a trash bag or any other container. Stuff things to be trashed in the bin and things that belong in another room in the box. As you move from room to room, put the items from the box back in their rightful places.
49. Instead of crossing words out with lines, cross them out with letters, so they won’t be legible.
50. Video-Game Soundtracks make great work music.