Updated: Dec 8, 2020
Day 1
There is nothing wrong with you.
There is no one better at being you than YOU.
You’re already brilliant as you are.
When you realise there is nothing wrong with you – you’ll also realise there’s nothing to perfect.
Day 2
What I if told you
You read the first line wrong?
Sometimes you need to just look at life from a different perspective.
Sometimes your beliefs stop you from seeing things in a way that is helpful.
Day 3
Imagine it is your 100th birthday.
All of your family have gathered together.
Your great, great, great, great granddaughter is going to say a few words about you.
What would she say?
What would you want her to say?
How could you make it come true?
Day 4
Social distancing can also be applied to social media.
Distance yourself from negative people who constantly complain and display irrational outrage.
Curate what you consume.
Day 5
When you feel thoughts running away and creating imaginary futures you don’t like.
Ground yourself by asking 3 questions:
What’s the worst that could happen?
What’s the best that could happen?
= What’s the most likely that will happen?
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.
Day 7
Be MAD today.
Make
A
Difference
That’s all.
Day 8
Be grateful for what you have – not what you haven’t.
When you focus on what you lack you lose focus on what you have.
Day 9
Attitude is a choice.
We all know the right choice to make.
Sometimes we just forget.
Try not to forget.
Day 10
Every day is a new opportunity to:
Say yes to the things in your life that are important.
Say no to the things that aren’t.
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.
Day 12
You can be the most positive person your family meets today.
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.
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.
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.
Day 16
You’re stuck with yourself forever.
So you might as well be stuck with a version of you who you love, respect and care about.
Day 17
How to get more done and procrastinate less.
Turn off the Internet.
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.
“Never miss twice.” -James Clear
Day 19
If you want to grow, it will take effort.
You can’t “believe” 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.
Day 20
Your attitude is your superpower.
It’s free, within your control and when used positively is the gift that keeps on giving.
Day 21
Stack a desired habit on to an existing habit.
Two minutes of exercise whilst the kettle boils.
Read for five minutes straight after brushing your teeth in the evening.
Write three points of gratitude straight before getting into bed.
Day 22
You are only where you are right now.
Might as well try to make the most of it.
Day 23
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
-Wayne Dyer
You are only one thought away from a completely different experience of life.
Day 24
Get enough sleep.
Things to do during the day that help:
Exercise
Go outdoors
Avoid caffeine
Avoid alcohol
No bright lights before bed
Day 25
Be kind.
When you are kind you might not remember it.
The other person may never forget it.
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.
Day 27
It doesn’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.
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.
Day 29
A brilliant life won’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 it’s worth it.
Day 30
You deserve to feel happy.
Even on the days when you think you don’t.
Day 31
Effort is important.
But without strategy you will get nowhere.
In short: What you don’t focus on is as important as what you do focus on.
Day 32
The things you want and the things worth working for are hardly ever in your comfort zone.
Stretch.
Day 33
The end of one thing can also be the start of another.
Don’t forget that.
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?
Day 35
It’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.
Day 36
Perfection is not a good goal.
Because it doesn’t exist.
Day 37
‘Sonder’
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.
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.
Day 39
Something I’ve recently learned.
Asking “What’s the rush?” is a pretty good prescription for life.
Day 40
Be kind.
You might not remember being kind to someone.
They might never forget it.
Day 41
Stop trying to be perfect.
The flaws, rough edges, and cracks make us interesting and unique.
No need to be perfect.
Day 42
Be a conscious consumer of information.
Especially news, social media and gossip.
Have control in a world of abundance.
Day 43
There
Is
No
Competition
You’re
Only
Against
Yourself
Day 44
There are better days in the future.
One of them might be tomorrow.
Day 45
If the news bothers you.
Choose not to watch it.
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.
You’ll be 37 times better than when you started.
Be patient.
Day 47
Tarzan can’t hold on to the vine in front and vine behind at the same time.
You’re like Tarzan.
To move forward you have to let go of what’s holding you back.
Sometimes to grow, you have to let go.
Day 48
The problem in your thoughts is usually much bigger than the problem in real life.
Day 49
Life isn’t Top Trumps.
It’s not about being better than anyone else.
Day 50
Scroll less.
Think more.
Live better.
Day 51
Be kind.
To others.
And yourself.
Day 52
Did you know?
You don’t have to be good at something for it to be good for you.
Day 53
The ‘stuff’ you have won’t make you any happier.
Day 54
Your attention is a currency.
Choose wisely how you spend it.
Day 55
What is the smallest thing in your life you take for granted?
Show gratitude towards it today.
Day 56
Things worth doing are usually not easy.
Embrace the challenge.
Savour the reward.
Day 57
If you think you can’t.
You won’t.
Day 58
Putting out someone else’s light won’t make your flame burn any brighter.
Day 59
Have values.
Ask yourself what you stand for.
Then what you stand against.
Live your values. Don’t laminate them.
Day 60
Growth mindset
>Repetition
>Make mistakes
>Fix mistakes
Day 61
If you had friend who spoke to you the way you speak to yourself – would you be friends with them?
Day 62
Don’t hold onto a mistake just because you spent a long time making it.
Day 63
Problems are never solved by people who only want to complain about them.
Day 64
The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.
Day 65
Did you get up this morning to ordinary or extraordinary?
Did you even realise you had a choice?
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.
Day 67
You SMELL.
You are:
Shaping
Minds
Every day to
Love
Learning
Day 68
Sometimes, in some cases, things really do need to get worse before they get better.
When the worst happens – just remember – it isn’t permanent.
Day 69
Your ability to inspire the minds in front of you is your greatest superpower.
Day 70
How not to be happy.
Stay indoors all day.
Day 71
If you always try and be perfect then you will never finish anything or get anything done.
Day 72
Times are tough.
But so are you.
Day 73
If you want peace.
Accept.
If you want dissatisfaction.
Expect.
Day 74
Being positive can be hard.
But without positivity – life can be harder.
Day 75
The feeling of pride for what you have achieved should always be greater than the feeling of worry for what you haven’t achieved.
Day 76
Appreciate without expectation or comparison.
Day 77
Extinguishing the light of someone else won’t make your light burn any brighter.
Day 78
Life isn’t a competition.
You don’t earn points for beating or beating others.
Day 79
You earn respect by being yourself.
Not by being the person others want you to be.
Day 80
“They 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.”
Be the light.
Day 81
Running faster makes no difference if you’re going in the wrong direction.
Day 82
There is no one better at being you than YOU.
Day 83
There are seven and a half billion types of normal in the world.
Why would you want to be like everyone else?
Day 84
Remember to breathe.
Day 85
Action is the enemy of procrastination.
Which side will you take?
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.
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.
Day 88
When you think what you’ve always thought.
You’ll feel what you’ve always felt.
Day 89
Listen without defence.
Respond without offence.
Day 90
On your own you are a small ripple.
All of us together is an unstoppable wave.
Keep being a ripple.
It’s worth it.
Day 91
Choose less over more.
Day 92
People will always:
Criticise
Question
Challenge
Protest
Object
Blame
Just carry on being amazing anyway!
Day 93
Be kind.
The world is a small town.
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.
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.
Day 96
“You have to find your own rainbow to follow.
There is no gold at the end of somebody else’s rainbow.”
Day 97
You’re not perfect.
Why would you want to be?
Perfect isn’t interesting.
It isn’t exciting.
Day 98
“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
-Pablo Picasso
Day 99
If you want to live an amazing life.
No one will live it for you.
No one will gift it to you.
It’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.