Well-being made easy
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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- Listen to happy music — music triggers my happy mood. So the activity is to listen to one happy song
- 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
- Let it go. Just think. In ten years, what will matter about today?
- Smile at myself, give myself a thought of love
- Switch off my phone. I might turn it on in few minutes again, but at least it is few minutes without distraction

