Well-being made easy

Laure Gallet
Nov 7 · 2 min read

I am amazed at how simple well-being activities are: close your eyes and breath, sleep early instead of watching videos, stop Facebook. And yet, it is super difficult to achieve it

So I tried to make well-being as easy as possible for me

  1. Sleep: I wish to sleep early but I don’t do it much. The time I feel the most drained in the day is when I come home from work. I just want to hide in my bed and watch videos for hours. So instead, I would like to take a 1 minutes nap. I say 1 minutes, because I want this list to be the simplest list on earth, so that each thing is doable. I believe that if I do one very simple thing, it is definitely better than nothing, and will trigger a virtuous chain
  2. Noise in at work: I work in an open space but I hate noise, especially overhearing people conversations when I work. My noise canceling headset doesn’t make enough magic to take me in a different world. So my commitment is to go find an empty meeting room and stay there for 5 minutes
  3. Movement: I need to move and get cranky when I don’t. But if I don’t practice for a while, I get so cranky I don’t want to move anymore.
  4. How do I feel? I am very quick to judge myself and tell negative stories about myself. But I am much less incline at listening to how I currently feel. Right now, I feel a bit tired, drained and stressed
  5. What do I need? I know always what I should be doing. It is harder to consider what I need. I am scared that wondering what my need is, is going to take me away from my goals and responsibilities. I know it is not true, but I have this deep belief holding me back
  6. Listen to happy music — music triggers my happy mood. So the activity is to listen to one happy song
  7. Hack self-confidence: I have experienced that self-confidence is not something that fell on my overnight like the rain. Instead, I can actually develop it if I chose to believe it. So acting self-confidence, talking to myself like I am self-confident works well. So my activity is to say one positive affirmation
  8. Let it go. Just think. In ten years, what will matter about today?
  9. Smile at myself, give myself a thought of love
  10. Switch off my phone. I might turn it on in few minutes again, but at least it is few minutes without distraction
This is me in a full well-being day
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