100 Ways to Un-Complicate Your Life


I found these on another blog I read, and they are definitely too good not to pass on, so here they are "100 Ways to Un-complicate Your Life"...
  1. Don’t try to read other people’s minds
  2. Get up 30 minutes earlier so that you don’t rush/get a ticket while driving too fast/have to explain why you’re late/get fired
  3. Get 8 hours of sleep per night so that you think more clearly
  4. Stick to your budget
  5. Start saving and investing every week, no matter how little you can spare
  6. Balance your checkbook
  7. Don’t try to be friends with everyone. Cultivate closer relationships with fewer people.
  8. Don’t try to do business with everyone. Identify your target client and take very good care of them.
  9. Before getting angry, ask yourself if it will really matter in 20 years
  10. Focus on being a good person, not on pleasing others
  11. Stay home this Saturday, and finish off that nagging chore that you need to finish
  12. Kiss and make up
  13. Make a weekly menu, and shop for only those items at the market
  14. Ask your grandparents the best way to uncomplicate life, and try it for a month
  15. Fill up your gas tank when it’s half full
  16. Don’t drink alcohol when you’re tired, sad or mad
  17. Pay your bills on time
  18. Get an annual physical examination
  19. Say “I love you” to your significant other and to your children. Studies show that more marriages last, and fewer kids use drugs, when these words are spoken every day.
  20. For just one day, imagine everyone’s intentions are good because most people’s are
  21. Give away clothes that haven’t been worn in two years
  22. Throw out clothes that are in disrepair, and can’t be mended
  23. When you have a conflict with someone, talk it out. Don’t let it turn into more than it is.
  24. Know what your priorities are in life, and act as if they are your priorities
  25. Tell the truth
  26. Don’t cheat
  27. Don’t steal
  28. If you’re holding on to a ridiculous grudge, let it go
  29. Clean your house weekly, so that it doesn’t become too large a chore
  30. Do your best at work, or at school
  31. Don’t eat when you aren’t hungry
  32. Eat when you are hungry
  33. Be yourself
  34. Say no unapologetically
  35. Cook simple meals
  36. Don’t try to keep up with the Joneses
  37. Pay off your car before buying a new one
  38. Organize your desk at the office
  39. Change your smoke alarm batteries when the clocks spring forward, and again when they fall back
  40. Organize your important paperwork
  41. Take only half the clothes that you planned to take with you on holiday
  42. Help your children with their homework every night, and have an open dialogue with their teachers
  43. Have white sheets and white towels in children’s rooms/bathrooms, because they’re easily bleached
  44. Spend your time with nice people
  45. Avoid drama
  46. Don’t text or talk on the phone while driving
  47. Turn off the television/video games/computer; they’re time consumers
  48. Don’t engage in office politics
  49. Refuse to gossip, or talk behind other people’s backs
  50. Do the dishes right after dinner
  51. Never go to sleep angry
  52. Ask nicely for what you need and want
  53. Walk 10,000 steps per day to help your heart
  54. Do 20 push-ups before speaking in anger
  55. Leave work at work
  56. Don’t befriend anyone that isn’t trustworthy
  57. Don’t envy others
  58. Have your oil changed
  59. Take vitamin C BEFORE you catch a cold
  60. Don’t work more than 8 hours per day
  61. Weed your garden weekly
  62. Wash your car weekly
  63. Have a spring cleaning month every year, and do one room at a time
  64. You don’t need to be best friends with work colleagues, but build respectful partnerships
  65. Don’t drink and drive
  66. Don’t look for reasons to be angry or sad, look for reasons to be happy. You’ll always be able to find plenty of each.
  67. Be friendly with your neighbours
  68. Return emails and phone messages promptly
  69. Schedule in free time
  70. Don’t procrastinate
  71. Do what you say you’ll do, when you say you’ll do it
  72. Be more flexible when you’re able to be
  73. Forgive and forget. End of story.
  74. Break the consumerism habit…put a three month moratorium in place on buying anything not deemed a necessity
  75. Start your diet on September 1, rather than January 1, so that you won’t also have holiday pounds to lose
  76. Take care of any health issues or concerns
  77. Have your tires rotated
  78. Have your brakes checked
  79. Have your eyes checked
  80. Don’t let your imagination run away with you
  81. Let go of perfection in others
  82. Let go of perfection in yourself
  83. Don’t try to help those that refuse to help themselves
  84. Find a way to reduce your commute to work
  85. Have an allotted amount of worry time per day/week, that you strictly abide by
  86. Drink more water
  87. Eat more salmon
  88. Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill
  89. Wear your hair in a classic, easy to care for style
  90. Finish what you start
  91. Wear classic clothes and shoes that never go out of style
  92. Create a daily routine
  93. Have a 1, 5, 10 and 20 year plan for your financial and life goals
  94. Slow down
  95. Eat out less often
  96. When you ask your husband which outfit looks best, thank him for his answer and wear the one he liked rather than focusing on why he didn’t like the other one
  97. Allow your children to grow up
  98. Clean out your garage, and donate anything that hasn’t been used in the past year
  99. Stretch every day
  100. If a relationship is over, let it go
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