glimpse of what goes on in other people’s
minds.
1. Do the Thing You Fear the Most.
If there’s one thing that will change your
thoughts quicker than anything else, it’s
facing your fears.
2. Stand up For Yourself
A lot of people have difficulty in standing
up for themselves. The first time you do it
can be very empowering and your thoughts
about yourself will change forever.
3. Stop Talking
It’s great to be silent for just a little while.
Our thoughts turn inward and we begin to
appreciate ourselves just a little more.
4. Strengthen Your Strengths
Sometimes we focus too much on trying to
strengthen our weaknesses when we should
be concentrating on strengthening our
strengths.
5. Take A Walk Around an Art Gallery
You might not appreciate art or participate
in it but it’s great to see the thoughts of
others on canvas. It can give us a tiny
6. Blindfold Yourself for a Day
Walk in the shoes of a blind person for 1 full
day, it will forever change the way you think
about life.
7. Stand on a Chair for 5 Minutes Per
Day
Building self discipline is a great way to
take control of your mind and your thoughts.
If you just get up and stand on a sturdy chair
your mind will be wondering what the hells
going on and try and force you to get off the
chair. Disciplining your mind is a great way
to start changing your life.
8. Dance When There’s Nobody There
It’s a strange sensation to dance on your
own, although when I have done this I look
like a dog having a seizure, nonetheless it’s
a great way to let go of your inhibitions.
9. Give Money to Someone Unexpectedly
Whether it be on the internet, or in the street,
just give a larger than normal donation to
someone. This again is liberating and your
thoughts about money will change for a few
moments (that’s all it takes to start the
process of changing your life.)
10. Strengthen Your Thoughts About
Yourself
Reinforce your thoughts about your good
points. If you are good at talking to people,
tell yourself this often. If you are good at
maths, tell yourself often. This has the
benefit of reinforcing and strengthening
your self image.
11. Take A Risk
Life would be boring without ever having
taken a risk in your life. Do something that
you didn’t want to do because you thought
you wouldn’t be any good at it. This totally
smashes the boundaries of your comfort
zone and your life could change forever.
12. Talk To A Stranger
Again this is breaking our comfort zones,
but just saying hi to stranger in the street or
good morning can have an enormous impact
on your day and the person you said hi to.
13. Walk Around The House Naked
I can almost feel the shock at this. I don’t
mean when you’ve got guests in, I mean
when everybody is out. Lock the door and
totally liberate yourself and your thinking of
what’s right and what’s wrong. I wouldn’t
advise doing it all the time, but from time to
time, it’s a great feeling.
14. Read A Book By An Author You Most
Avoid
reading books by authors we avoid gives us
a chance to take control of our minds and
lets us see another side to our thinking.
We’ve got to ask why we avoid them in the
first place, is it something within us that we
are avoiding?
15. Write An Article About Yourself
Imagine a newspaper has asked you to write
an article of 1000 words or less about
yourself and your life and they want to know
what motivates you in life, now write the
article. This helps put your life into some
perspective and gets you thinking about your
childhood and growing up.
16. Stop Contact With Your Down People
If you have people in your life who
constantly drag you down, or are negative
all the time, drop them. Honestly drop them
from your life, you are not serving them and
they are not serving you and they are
dragging your thoughts down.
17. Believe In Yourself
A lot of people believe their life has been
pre-destined and there’s nothing we can do
to change it – absolute rubbish. YOU are the
only person who controls the universe, yes I
did mean universe. Your universe is
different from mine so you control your own
universe, think about that and start acting
upon it.
18. Meditate Every Day
Another powerful thing that has the power
to change your life and your thinking for
good. Retreating into your mind for a few
minutes every day will do you a power of
good.
19. Ask For A Discount
When you buy anything from a shop that is
over $100, ask for a discount. Tell the
salesman you’d like a 10% discount on the
item. Most people are so afraid of doing this
but it’s a great way to empower yourself and
let go of another inhibition, what’s the worst
that can happen?
20. Risk Embarrassment
Imagine if you had seen the person of your
dreams on a bus, or at the store and you
didn’t do anything about it how much would
you kick yourself. If this happens to you, do
something about it, don’t keep it hidden.
Just say to them you thought you would
come over and say how attractive they
looked and felt you had to tell them. You
never know what will happen and how much
your life could be changed. Obviously don’t
turn into a weirdo and do it with every good
looking person on the street.
21. Work Toward, What You Think, Is
An Impossible Goal
If you work toward a goal without
expectation you don’t care about the
outcome as much. When you don’t care
about the outcome, you don’t have as much
expectation.
22. Practice Gratitude
We all know what we don’t have in our lives
because we spend a lot of time wishing we
had them, but are we really thankful for
what we have? Spend time every single day
being thankful for the good things we do
have in our lives.
23. Do Something Nice And Don’t Tell
Anyone About It
We tell others about our acts of kindness to
let them know how nice we are and to seek
approval. If you keep your act of kindness to
yourself without ever telling anyone the
feeling of positive energy lasts much longer.
24. Share Your Skills
Everybody has a skill of some kind. When
you share it you not only have the power to
help others, but you enhance your own skill
by owning it.
25. Don’t Talk Just Listen
Enhance your listening skills by not talking
when someone is speaking to you. Resist the
urge to speak your views when someone is
talking to you, just listen to them and ask
them more open ended questions at the
appropriate times. This has two benefits: a)
You can really listen if you are not
formulating the stories in your own head
when someone is talking b) you will make
the other person feel great as you are
actively listening to them.
26. Write Your Future Life Story
Start from the age you are just now and start
writing your future life story as you’d like it
to be. Be as outrageous as you want and just
write about your ideal life and how you
interact with it. Words on paper are
powerful and can help shape your goals.
27. Give Someone A Gift For No Reason
We always assume someone buys us a gift
for a reason whether it be a birthday,
christmas or special occasion. Buy someone
a gift just because you know they would like
it.
28. Pass On Your Good Books
If you’ve read a book and it changed your
thinking or life in some way, pass it on to
someone else who might benefit.;
29. Spend More Time With Your Kids
Your kids will grow up very quickly, spend
as much time as you can with them.
30. Forgive Behavior
The way we behave doesn’t necessarily
reflect our true thoughts. Remember this
when someone acts out of character and
behaves in a way you don’t approve of.
31. Allow Yourself To Be A Lazy Git
We are so used to filling our time with
useful things to do and being productive we
have forgotten the art of laziness. Being lazy
is good every ONCE IN A WHILE and it
allows our mind to slow down and relax.
32. What Is Your Best Quality Today
Every morning for 10 seconds just state, out
loud if you can, what your best quality is.
Try and change it every day. This reinforces
your strengths and weakens your perceived
weaknesses.
33. Write A Comment
If you visit a blog you like, leave a comment
and join in the community of people. Or, if
there is not much of a community, be part of
starting it.
34. Tell Your Friends And Colleagues
How Good They Are
If a friend or colleague does something
good, tell them how good they are at that
particular task. This reinforces someone else
strengths or strengthens their weaknesses
and makes them feel good about themselves.
35. Make A Video Of Yourself And Post
It To Youtube
Why on earth would you do this? Just
because you can!
36. List All Your Worries
Make a list of every single worry you have
at the moment. You will notice that you
don’t have as many worries as you thought.
Worrying consumes our thinking and we
think our whole life is one big worry. When
you get it down on paper it’s extremely
surprising that you don’t have as many as
you’d thought.
37. Work On Each Worry In Turn
Now that you have all your worries listed.
Go through them and start acting on them in
turn. If you find worries you cannot act upon
it means there is nothing you can do to
change the outcome of that worry, so forget
it, why waste mind energy on something you
cannot control at all?
38. Read About Successful People
If you want to change your thoughts and
change your life read about people who have
already done it and use them as guides.
39. Tweet Your Moods
If you use twitter why not tweet your moods
daily and see if there is some kind of pattern
after a few months.
40. Stop Watching Soaps
Soap operas actually have the power to alter
your state of mind. People get so caught up
in the emotions of the soap that they
experience what the actors and actresses are
doing.
41. Have A News Break
What would happen if you never read a
newspaper for a week? nothing at all, your
life wouldn’t change, you wouldn’t run out
of things to talk about, you would still be as
up on the world as everyone else.
Newspapers sell because of their doom and
gloom, read it and you are buying into it.
42. Do Something Spontaneous
Jump on a bus without looking at the
destination, book a holiday, take time off
work, take your partner away, buy your kids
a gift; do anything and make sure it’s out of
character, (expand that boundary).
43. Write To An Author
Authors are people just like you and I and
they love getting feedback about their work.
If a book touched you in some way or
changed you, take time to write to the author
and thank them. Don’t look for a reply, just
thank them.
44. Follow your instincts
We don’t trust ourselves nearly enough as
we should. Follow your instincts more and
pay attention to the signals your body is
picking up and see where it takes you. You
might find that your conscious brain gets in
the way of your body signals a lot of the
time.
45. If You Find Some Money Give It To
Charity
If you find money in the street don’t pocket
it, give it to someone who is homeless or
better yet buy them a meal with it. If it’s a
suitcase full of money, that’s obviously a
different story.
46. Your Thoughts Really Do Have Power
When you realize this, it will change your
thinking in so many ways. I can’t tell you
that it’s true you have to experience it for
yourself.
47. Always Admit It When You Have
Made A Mistake
Don’t blame others or hide behind someone
else. Hold your hands up and admit you
made a mistake, no matter what the
consequences are. You will be much more
respected this way. However, don’t take the
blame for others.
48. Do Something Every Day To Improve
Your Mind
Learn a new word, do an anagram puzzle,
sudoku your mind, read a book, read a
stimulating blog post, anything that will help
your mind just a little. Just a little turns into
something huge.
49. Change Your Thinking Style
If something is not working out, try and
change your thinking style and come at it
from another angle. This is true of
everything in life.
50. What Do You Really Want To Do In
Life
You will find most people cannot answer
this question simply because they are
plodding along with life. When you know
what you really want to do with your life
then your life takes another path.
51. Pass On Your Knowledge
Knowledge is for sharing, let others know
what you know if it’s appropriate.
52. Ask For What You Want In Life
If you don’t ask you won’t get. Asking for
your wants puts it out there. I mean literally
ask and metaphorically ask. When you want
a big house or a mansion, ask out loud and
send it out there. When you want the smaller
things in life, ask for them from people who
can give you them. Always pay it forward.
53. When Someone Does You A Good
Turn Pay It Forward
If you receive a compliment, thank the
person and look for an opportunity to give
someone else a compliment. If you receive a
gift, give a gift to someone else at an
opportune time.
54. Always Have A Good Breakfast
We underestimate the power of food to keep
our brains healthy and our minds alive with
energy. If you don’t eat that much, make
sure you have a good breakfast to set you up
for the day.
55. What Would People Say About You If
You Died
This is not a morbid thought, but I often
think about what people would say about me
at my funeral. The thing is the ones who
might say something bad, I can’t really not
invite because I’ll be dead. However, the
important people are ones I would care
about most and I would like to develop my
life’s values based on what people would
say about me at my funeral; he was a caring
man, he was a family man, he always told
the truth no matter how hard it might seem,
he had integrity etc.
56. Sing Your Heart Out
I love to sing, I hopeless at it, but I love it.
We have a radio station over in the UK
called gold http://www.mygoldmusic.co.uk/
and it plays music from the 60s, 70s and 80s
and I sing at the top of my voice as there is
always something on that’s good. My sons
are not very pleased about it though
57. Love The One You’re With
Always let your partner know how much
you love them by telling them and showing
them. This way your mind is focused on
them for at least part of the day.
58. Pacing Whilst Studying
This has helped me a lot over the years. I
paced my way through university. My
theory is that the body and mind is being
stimulated with the exercise you are doing
whilst walking, this makes the blood flow.
Blood flow to the brain help you to study
and remember.
59. Make New friends
Whether it be online or offline. Keeping
yourself busy socially is stimulating for the
mind and lets you see the world from others
peoples perspective.
60. Make Love Regularly
Releasing the feel good chemicals,
endorphins, into your bloodstream is a great
way to stimulate the mind. I have to admit to
feeling much more creative after making
love.
61. Listen To Music
This stimulates the mind and can have
tremendous benefits for your thoughts,
therefore your life. I love listening to
Baroque music whilst driving at night, I love
rousing rock driving during the day and
dance trance music at the weekend whist
driving
62. Listen To A Book Instead Of The
Radio
Getting downloadable books from
Amazon.com or Audible.com is a great way
to spend long journeys and learn something
at the same time.
63. Have A Sleep In
I am not a big fan of sleeping longer than I
have to, but sometimes it’s great to lie in bed
for a few hours longer than normal. It helps
the brain recuperate.
64. Turn Off The TV
There’s nothing more brain numbing than
having the TV on all day every day.
Exercise your mind and read a book, or at
least watch something educational.
65. Look For Evidence Of Your Beliefs
This will develop your mind and your
critical thinking. If you look for evidence of
your beliefs such as ‘what is the evidence
that sea water is blue or green’, you’ll
discover some great information on during
your research.
66. Take Micro Naps
Taking a micro nap for 10 minutes a few
times a day does wonders for your brain
energy.
67. Travel Often
Travel really does broaden your horizons
especially if you really get into the local
food and culture.
68. Tidy House Tidy Mind
There really is nothing better than clearing
your house or office space to clear your
mind. When the house is not tidy there is
always a niggling at the back of your mind.
When the house, office and workspace is
totally clean and tidy it frees your mind to
concentrate on work or your family at home.
69. Exercise Your Mind Not Just Your
Body
We all know the benefits of exercising the
body but exercising the mind by doing
crosswords, maths puzzles, playing chess,
reading, anagrams, sudoku etc, all help to
increase the minds capacity for learning.
70. Read Philosophy
the beauty of philosophy is that there is no
right and wrong. However, reading different
philosophers views about the world will
stimulate your mind.
71. Ditch The Credit Card
We have forgotten how to wait for the things
we want in life, if we see something we like
we want it now and using a credit card is too
easy. Make the object of your desire more
precious by saving up for it. This will
discipline your mind as well as your money
spending habits.
72. Watch A Motivational Video On
Youtube First Thing In The Morning
This is a great way to start the day. Just type
in motivational into youtube search box, sort
by view count and watch a few videos.
73. Keep Up To Date With New Theories
Whatever field you are interested in keep up
to date with new theories and discoveries.
New theories in psychology are especially
interesting albeit quite thin on the ground.
74. Take One Action Toward Your Goals
Every Day
Your Self confidence, self esteem, and goals
can only be reached by taking action. The
more action you take the more your mind
will help you to keep going.
75. Never Let Your Mind Go Out Of
Fashion
Keep up to date with the latest research on
health, beauty and intelligence. Only those
whose thoughts keep searching will stay
intelligent for life.
76. Confronting Your Stressors
Whatever you are stressed about the most
tackle first. The less stress you have the less
your mind has to cope with. Tackle the
biggest stressors first and work your way
down.
77. Drink Coffee And Tea
Despite evidence to the contrary coffee and
tea have been shown to help the brain.
Antioxidants and/or caffeine may help fight
the onset of Alzheimer’s by 30-60%
drinking 30 cups a day is obviously not good
but 3-5 cups per day is okay.
78. Carry Yourself With Confidence
People can tell by the way you walk if you
are confident or not. Walk with purpose and
have a purpose to walk.
79. Make Up Your Own Mind
When reading or listening to the news, do
your own research and make up your own
mind. The government and large
corporations, whether deliberate or not, is a
propaganda machine feeding you
information to manipulate your thinking.
80. Take Up Yoga
This is meant to be one of the best ways to
relive stress and exercise both mind and
body.
81. Change Your Hands
Practice doing this with your less dominant
hand. If you are right handed start doing
things with your left hand and vice versa. If
you are ambidextrous, start doing it with
your feet
82. Eat Plenty Of Fish
There is an abundance on new evidence that
eating fish is great for our brains and
keeping them healthy.
83. Reduce Your Alcohol Intake
I had to say this, I am an addiction worker.
Don’t cut it out just reduce it to the
recommended safe level.
84. Quit The Smoking
Yep it can be one of the hardest drugs to
give up but it is worth it. I feel so much
better for giving up smoking and have a lot
more energy than normal and my mind can
function a lot better.
85. Practice Deep Breathing
Getting plenty of oxygen to your brain is
key for a healthy mind, deep breathing can
help with this.
86. Get A Dog/Cat
If you live alone why not go to one of the
pet rescue centres and get a dog or a cat.
People who have pets are shown to be less
lonely, more active, and show fewer signs of
stress.
87. Break your Pattern
If you are the one who always goes
shopping swap the routine with your partner.
Or if you always go to a particular store,
change it and go to the same store in another
area. Do anything to break the patterns you
have in life. This way your mind is kept
more active.
88. Try New Food
We have trained our palettes over the years
and have gotten used to eating certain foods
day in and day out. Try new foods and train
your palette to eat better foods.
89. Stimulate Your Brain By Going To A
Concert
Whether it be a rock concert or am
orchestral concert, getting out and hearing
music live and being with people who enjoy
the same music stimulates your mind and
your emotions.
90. Join An Internet Group
Join an internet discussion group to further
your education on topics of interest. Want to
start a business? join a group and get ideas
for best practice. Want to know more about
tropical fish? join a group. This educates
your mind, gives you ideas and lets you
meet people who are interested in the same
topics as you.
91. Volunteer To Help Others
Volunteering is a great way to give back to
the community and help others learn the
skills you have. Even if you don’t think you
have skills you can still help someone out in
your community just by talking or doing
their shopping for 1 hour per week.
92. Read The Tao Te Ching
Has to be one of the best books, in my
opinion, for developing your mind.
93. Practice Patience
Waiting in queues, traffic jams, on a
telephone call can be very frustrating
sometimes. If you use the time to develop
your mind and focus on your goals your
frustration will dissipate very quickly. Use
free time like this constructively instead of
getting angry and putting yourself in a bad
mood.
94. Practice Divergent Thinking
This is the practice of looking for multiple
solutions to problems or issues that arise in
your life, whether they be at home or at
work. Don’t judge your solutions just put
them down on paper until you can’t think of
any other ways. get others involved in this
as well.
95. Put On A New Hat
Edward De Bono wrote a book called Six
Thinking Hats in which he proposed you to
put on a different, mental, hat for each area
of your life. For example you put on your
parent hat when talking to your kids, you
can also put on your child hat for playing
around with your kids. mentally putting on
different hats allows you to better go in and
out of different roles in your life.
100. Read The Dictionary
Learning a new word every 2 -3 days will
increase your vocabulary by 120 – 170
words per year.

96. Stop trying To Multitask 101. Always Over deliver On Your

Promises
Multitasking can’t be done except with
unconscious processes such as walking and If you say your going to do something, don’t
talking. If you try to consciously multitask just do it and get the job complete, make
like make the kids lunches, have a telephone sure you over deliver on everything you do
conversation and try and get the kids ready
for school it can’t be done nearly as
effectively as doing each task separately.
Multitasking stresses out minds and helps to
produce bad results.

97. Write A Short Essay On The Books

Your Read

Doing this will keep your mind active and

helps your to read in a different way as you
are analyzing books instead of just reading.
this way you retain more information and in
a few years time you don’t embarrass
yourself by saying ‘yeah, that was a great
book but I can’t remember what it was
about.’

98. Allocate Time For Worrying

If you are a recovering worrier and you need

some help, allocate a certain time each day
to worry about everything. Once you’ve
done the time of worry, leave it until the
next day.

99. Stop Faffing And Just Do It

Faffing is the art of doing small things to

avoid completing a bigger task. I am
constantly getting on at my son and saying
‘Stop faffing!’. We spend too much time
faffing instead on concentrating on the task
at hand