Yesterday I wrote about the need to get started with just one thing a day. I hammered home the point that my first daily action was unusually focused on getting into the gym.
For those of you that are still unsure where to start – this is going to be a great post for you – I have a slew of possibilities to pick from.
So without any more talking and introduction – here’s a set of options and questions for your consideration in no order whatsoever!
I have grouped each set of 5 completely arbitrary things into 13 Dimensions of Life to make this even more digestible.
- Energy & Spiritual
- Begin praying
- Get your bloodwork done, inclusive of hormone and minerals
- Download a meditation app
- Commit to taking a 5 minute walk every hour
- Fast from solid foods for 16 hours
- Get a Bible App
- Values, Purpose, and Legacy
- Figure out one non negotiable value that you operate from
- Write a letter to yourself from the 10 years older version of yourself giving yourself one piece of advice
- Run your own numbers
- Talk with your children about your values
- Schedule a retreat/alone time for yourself to give this more thought
- Emotional Health and Well Being
- Take a 20 minute walk in the morning
- Write down 3 things you are grateful for and truly feel the gratefulness in your bones
- Call someone you’ve been meaning to call
- Schedule some time to volunteer at a local charity
- Pay for the guy’s coffee in line behind you for no reason
- Health & Physical Fitness
- Stop eating refined sugar
- Only eat at mealtimes
- Drink a 32 oz glass of room temperature water first thing in the morning
- Change the air filters in your home
- Stretch your entire body for 15 minutes – find how to do so via YouTube
- Intellect, Education, and Skills
- Start reading a book on an interesting subject
- Download the Blinkist app and sign up for the service
- Find a podcast you are interested in
- Sign up for an online course at Udemy
- Find a new recipe and make the meal tonight
- Character, Discipline, Integrity
- Stop hitting the snooze button, just get out of bed
- Listen to Jocko’s podcast
- Get rid of all of the snack foods in your home
- Do 20 squats, 20 pushups, and 20 sit ups today all right in a row. Stop when you get tired, restart until you get through one cycle.
- Wake up at 5am tomorrow
- Productivity & Organization
- Cancel your TV service
- Commit 30 minutes to planning the next seven days of to do’s
- Get 8 hours of sleep and 9 hours in bed tonight
- Quit watching any TV or media for the day
- Remove all social media apps from your phone
- Entrepreneurship, Business Plans and Delivery
- Check out Chris Guillebeau’s materials – Side Hustle School is legit
- Check out Sean Wes’ materials
- Start writing down your ideas
- Reach out to a friend that you know has their own business and offer to help them with 10 free hours of your time over the next two months
- Go to Fiverr.com and find a gig or two that you could do better than what is being offered
- Family, Inner Circle, Social
- Tell someone close to you that you love them with no expectations of a response
- Reach out to a mentor to reconnect
- Quit checking your phone when your family is in the home
- Do something fun with your kids for no reason
- Go to mpix.com and build a canvas of your family and mail it out to a couple of close family members for no reason
- Financial
- Check out mvelopes.com
- Check out David Ramsey’s materials
- Grab all of the extra cash and change around your home and put it into savings
- Open up a savings deposit box
- Setup automatic bill payments with your current bank
- Play, Adventure, and Creativity
- Buy concert tickets for an upcoming show
- Research an ‘experience’ in your local area via AirBnB’s app
- Sign up for dance, singing, or writing lessons at a local community college
- Go on GroupOn and buy a half price lesson on something such as sailing or rowing that you have never done before
- Find a new restaurant in your town and eat out there
- Professional – Career and Work
- Schedule ‘thinking time’ into your day
- Scan LinkedIn for profiles you think are really well done as potential models for your own LinkedIn profile
- Plan your schedule for tomorrow
- Brainstorm 5 innovative ideas to bring to your boss for further brainstorming
- Research executive coaches
- Tangibles and Location
- Make your bed
- Fold your laundry
- Clean your desk
- Get a whiteboard for your home office (I just got three)
- Get a hammock
Many of these are 1 off topics and many of these could be incorporated into a new daily habit. The point here is to get started with one thing per day that moves you step forward.
I bet that there will be days where you will find you can do 5 of these things in addition to your usual routine, and other days where getting one thing done will be a real struggle.
I am very interested to hear which one you picked!
