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99 tips for wellbeing in 99 days.

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Day 5

When you feel thoughts running away and creating imaginary futures you donโ€™t like.

Ground yourself by asking 3 questions:

โœ–๏ธWhatโ€™s the worst that could happen?

โœ”๏ธWhatโ€™s the best that could happen?

= Whatโ€™s the most likely that will happen?

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Day 6

Read something. Anything.

Whatever your preference - education, fact or fiction - getting in lost in thousands of words that someone else has taken the time to construct can be magical.

Books are like sweets for your mind.

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Day 7

Be MAD today.

โœ”๏ธMake
โœ”๏ธA
โœ”๏ธDifference

Thatโ€™s all.

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Day 8

Be grateful for what you have - not what you havenโ€™t.

When you focus on what you lack you lose focus on what you have.

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Day 9

Attitude is a choice.

We all know the right choice to make.

Sometimes we just forget.

Try not to forget.

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Day 10

Every day is a new opportunity to:

โœ”๏ธSay yes to the things in your life that are important.

โœ–๏ธSay no to the things that arenโ€™t.

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Day 11

Decide now to grow.

Tiny changes bring remarkable results.

A 1% improvement every day for a year aggregates to you being 37 times better off by the end of the year.

Take a small step today.

Another tomorrow.

Repeat.

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Day 12

You can be the most positive person your family meets today.

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Day 13

When the world is in a difficult place.

Like it is now.

Think carefully about what goes into your mind.

Extend conversations that make you feel good.

End ones that make you feel bad.

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Day 14

There is probably someone who feels more anxious, scared and worried than you do.

Help them to feel better.

It will help you to feel better.

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Day 15

Success is a series of good, small decisions consistently made over a sustained period of time.

You can reach success every day by consistently being slightly better than the day before.

The power of compounding is amazing.

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Day 16

Youโ€™re stuck with yourself forever.

So you might as well be stuck with a version of you who you love, respect and care about.

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Day 17

How to get more done and procrastinate less.

Turn off the Internet.

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Day 18

Momentum builds motivation.

Track how many days in a row you exercise for, read for, meditate for...

When you miss a day, start the count again and rebuild the momentum.

โ€œNever miss twice.โ€ -James Clear

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Day 19

If you want to grow, it will take effort.

You canโ€™t โ€œbelieveโ€ yourself to success.

Profound growth comes from:

1. Time
2. Effort
3. Input
4. Practice

It takes hard work - but knowing what to work hard on is a big part of the process.

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Day 20

Your attitude is your superpower.

Itโ€™s free, within your control and when used positively is the gift that keeps on giving.

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Day 21

Stack a desired habit on to an existing habit.

โœ”๏ธTwo minutes of exercise whilst the kettle boils.
โœ”๏ธRead for five minutes straight after brushing your teeth in the evening.
โœ”๏ธWrite three points of gratitude straight before getting into bed.

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Day 22

You are only where you are right now.

Might as well try to make the most of it.

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Day 23

โ€œWhen you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.โ€
-Wayne Dyer

You are only one thought away from a completely different experience of life.

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Day 24

Get enough sleep.

Things to do during the day that help:

Exercise ๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™€๏ธ
Go outdoors ๐ŸŒณ
Avoid caffeine โ˜•๏ธ
Avoid alcohol ๐Ÿบ
No bright lights before bed ๐Ÿ’ก

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Day 25

Be kind.

When you are kind you might not remember it.

The other person may never forget it.

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Day 26

The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.

When others around you are being negative, your silence is the sound of acceptance.

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Day 27

It doesnโ€™t matter who you are, where you come from, or what you can do.

Other people will never care that you know, until they know that you care.

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Day 28

The way you talk to yourself is the programme running the software of your life.

You can talk yourself into achieving something as quickly as you can talk yourself out of it.

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Day 29

A brilliant life wonโ€™t happen by accident.

If you want a brilliant life with brilliant outcomes, you have to work for it.

It costs effort and energy.

But itโ€™s worth it.

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Day 30

You deserve to feel happy.

Even on the days when you think you donโ€™t.

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Day 31

Effort is important.

But without strategy you will get nowhere.

In short: What you donโ€™t focus on is as important as what you do focus on.

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Day 32

The things you want and the things worth working for are hardly ever in your comfort zone.

Stretch.

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Day 33

The end of one thing can also be the start of another.

Donโ€™t forget that.

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Day 34

What sort of person do you want to be?

Why do you want to be that person?

How will you prove it to yourself every day?

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Day 35

Itโ€™s too easy to say thank you. There is a difference between saying thank you and being thankful.

Gratitude is the quality of being thankful.

When you say thank you, it is something you do.

When you feel thankful, it is something you are.

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Day 36

Perfection is not a good goal.

Because it doesnโ€™t exist.

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Day 37

โ€˜Sonderโ€™

The profound feeling of realising everyone, including complete strangers, has a life with just as many (and often more) problems than your own, which they are constantly living despite not telling you about it or you being aware of it.

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Day 38

There are two types of ideas.

The ones you have.

The ones you do something about.

Only the second one can change anything.

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Day 39

Something Iโ€™ve recently learned.

Asking โ€œWhatโ€™s the rush?โ€ is a pretty good prescription for life.

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Day 40

Itโ€™s #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

Be kind.

You might not remember being kind to someone.

They might never forget it.

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Day 41

Stop trying to be perfect.

The flaws, rough edges, and cracks make us interesting and unique.

No need to be perfect.

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Day 42

Be a conscious consumer of information.

Especially news, social media and gossip.

Have control in a world of abundance.

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Day 43

There
Is
No
Competition

Youโ€™re
Only
Against
Yourself

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Day 44

There are better days in the future.

One of them might be tomorrow.

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Day 45

If the news bothers you.

Choose not to watch it.

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Day 46

If you want to improve yourself and be happier.

It takes one small step at a time.

Being 1% better tomorrow than today is hardly noticeable.

But after a year.

Youโ€™ll be 37 times better than when you started.

Be patient.

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Day 47

Tarzan canโ€™t hold on to the vine in front and vine behind at the same time.

Youโ€™re like Tarzan.

To move forward you have to let go of whatโ€™s holding you back.

Sometimes to grow, you have to let go.

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Day 48

The problem in your thoughts is usually much bigger than the problem in real life.

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Day 49

Life isnโ€™t Top Trumps.

Itโ€™s not about being better than anyone else.

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Day 50

Scroll less.

Think more.

Live better.

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Day 51

Be kind.

To others.

And yourself.

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Day 52

Did you know?

You donโ€™t have to be good at something for it to be good for you.

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Day 53

The โ€˜stuffโ€™ you have wonโ€™t make you any happier.

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Day 54

Your attention is a currency.

Choose wisely how you spend it.

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Day 55

What is the smallest thing in your life you take for granted?

Show gratitude towards it today.

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Day 56

Things worth doing are usually not easy.

Embrace the challenge.

Savour the reward.

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Day 57

If you think you canโ€™t.

You wonโ€™t.

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Day 58

Putting out someone elseโ€™s light wonโ€™t make your flame burn any brighter.

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Day 59

Have values.

Ask yourself what you stand for.

Then what you stand against.

Live your values. Donโ€™t laminate them.

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Day 60

Growth mindset

>Repetition
>Make mistakes
>Fix mistakes

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Day 61

If you had friend who spoke to you the way you speak to yourself - would you be friends with them?

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Day 62

Donโ€™t hold onto a mistake just because you spent a long time making it.

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Day 63

Problems are never solved by people who only want to complain about them.

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Day 64

The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.

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Day 65

Did you get up this morning to ordinary or extraordinary?

Did you even realise you had a choice?

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Day 66

To thrive rather than just survive, try to engage in active rest by getting into a flow state at least once a day.

#wellbeing99

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Day 67

You SMELL.

You are:

Shaping
Minds
Every day to
Love
Learning

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Day 68

Sometimes, in some cases, things really do need to get worse before they get better.

When the worst happens - just remember - it isnโ€™t permanent.

#wellbeing99

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Day 69

Your ability to inspire the minds in front of you is your greatest superpower.

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Day 70

How not to be happy.

Stay indoors all day.

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Day 71

If you always try and be perfect then you will never finish anything or get anything done.

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Day 72

Times are tough.

But so are you.

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Day 73

If you want peace.

Accept.

If you want dissatisfaction.

Expect.

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Day 74

Being positive can be hard.

But without positivity - life can be harder.

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Day 75

The feeling of pride for what you have achieved should always be greater than the feeling of worry for what you havenโ€™t achieved.

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Day 76

Appreciate without expectation or comparison.

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Day 77

Extinguishing the light of someone else wonโ€™t make your light burn any brighter.

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Day 78

Life isnโ€™t a competition.

You donโ€™t earn points for beating or beating others.

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Day 79

You earn respect by being yourself.

Not by being the person others want you to be.

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Day 80

โ€œThey can be a great people, Kal-El; they wish to be.

They only lack the light to show the way.

For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you...

my only son.โ€

Be the light.

#superman

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Day 81

Running faster makes no difference if youโ€™re going in the wrong direction.

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Day 82

There is no one better at being you than YOU.

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Day 83

There are seven and a half billion types of normal in the world.

Why would you want to be like everyone else?

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Day 84

Remember to breathe.

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Day 85

Action is the enemy of procrastination.

Which side will you take?

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Day 86

The future is forged one moment at a time.

The present moment is all you have.

Win the moment now and forge the future you want.

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Day 87

1% better is all you need.

Two planes take off from the same point.

One has a course difference of 1 degree.

By the time they circumnavigate the world they will be 500 miles apart.

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Day 88

When you think what youโ€™ve always thought.

Youโ€™ll feel what youโ€™ve always felt.

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Day 89

Be proud of who you are every single day.

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Day 89

Listen without defence.

Respond without offence.

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Day 90

On your own you are a small ripple.

All of us together is an unstoppable wave.

Keep being a ripple.

Itโ€™s worth it.

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Day 91

Choose less over more.

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Day 92

People will always:

Criticise
Question
Challenge
Protest
Object
Blame

Just carry on being amazing anyway!

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Day 93

Be kind.

The world is a small town.

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Day 94

Nobody sees the world in quite the same way you do.

It is what makes you special.

It is what makes you stand out.

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Day 95

The killer of focus.

Endless tasks vs endless distractions.

With you caught in the middle.

Intentionally choose where to direct your attention.

Change your environment.

Change your default.

Forge a new path.

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Day 96

"You have to find your own rainbow to follow.

There is no gold at the end of somebody elseโ€™s rainbow."

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Day 97

Youโ€™re not perfect.

Why would you want to be?

Perfect isnโ€™t interesting.

It isnโ€™t exciting.

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Day 98

โ€œArt is the elimination of the unnecessary.โ€

-Pablo Picasso

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Day 99 (the last day)

If you want to live an amazing life.

No one will live it for you.

No one will gift it to you.

Itโ€™s all on you.

Shaped by the daily choices you make.

Focus your attention.

Make your choices.

Improve daily by 1%.

See you on the other side.

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