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10 Things You Can Do Today to Improve Your Life

Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S., expounds:

You don’t need an overhaul to improve the quality of your life. Just a few steps can help to boost your well-being and make your days more meaningful. And the great part is that you can start today. Below, several clinicians give their suggestions on how to do just that.

The suggestions are not new. Following through and using them is the key. I am aware I do better when I do something, no matter if it seems insignificant. The idea is to start with something you can succeed at, make doing a habit and then move on to more challenging things.

The suggestions are worth a try.

What I miss is how to do those things.General advice often sounds like Get better then you will get better. I need specifics. They don't fit all of course but at least then one could pick and choose. Only real advice is go to bed earlier. Know what I mean?

The author provides specifics on how to accomplish each suggestion. Perhaps your treatment team might help you?

I disagree. There are very few suggestions. Like one advice is to think positively. Like.. OK how?

I understand some people do get helped by this but also there are people who need more inspiration about the details. Most of us know where we want to be but few of us know how to get there.

Jimi, here's "how" to think positively: http://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/po...a-bad-day.html

Thanx. But to be honest I really understood just a small part of that.

I can sit, reflecting and making plans to change everyday. Having ADD I need tangibles. At work we have goals, our goals need to be specific, measurable and a timeline for accomplishing.

Wash dishes on counter by sink (filled sink, surfed internet, washed 10 dishes, got a drink, washed 5 more, picked up tools and put away, surfed internet, finished dishes in sink and filled again, check my email etc all evening long until all the dishes were washed on that counter) There were still piles of dishes on the rest of the counters, but I couldn't think about that.

Next night clean another counter, wash all the dishes, pick up the trash and put things away. (again chipping away, bit by bit)

It took a week, to make it look ok, still kind of grungy, but clean.

Now I am cleaning the frig, that will take several days, but breaking it up into pieces really helps.

It is easier to wash small piles of dishes everyday then to go at it all it once.

I have done this with the laundry, living room sofa and floor.

Slow? yes very slow, but I have a plan and achieving goals every day

Hmm none of that makes much sense to me...for instance some people don't get enough sleep because they can't not because they willingly want to stay up later. Everthing else just sounds like generalized advice better fit for people that have over-all decent mental health but get into ruts rather than one who's never been out of the rut so to speak.

But I know that's helpful to some people.