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10 Tips To Improve Your Mental Health and Thrive

Most of us hate our jobs, get less sleep that we should, get stressed out easily and far too often. We work long hours, deal with long commutes and otherwise survive, rather than thrive. It’s time to stop and change the tune. Here are the strategies I’ve found to greatly help get out of a rut and to maintain sanity and a grip on life, as well as to make sustained progress toward my goals.

1) Pre…

Wish I’d known this years ago. Super helpful in planning when to reply to emails and when to schedule meetings according to circadian rhythms.

https://hbr.org/2015/01/the-ideal-work-schedule-as-determined-by-circadian-rhythms

Pretty helpful tool, if not the most detailed. Great place to start if you’re frustrated with your role in the company.

http://lifehacker.com/this-flowchart-helps-you-find-your-career-personality-t-1708911601?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_facebook&utm_source=lifehacker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Now you know!

http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/07/this-is-what-one-sip-of-soda-does-to-your-body/

There are good and there are terrible times during the day to drink your coffee. Be very careful not to mess up the timing, since you could easily cause your stress hormones to go haywire with coffee when they’re already high during the the day.

http://lifehacker.com/the-scientifically-best-time-to-drink-your-coffee-1456767721

This DISC and Values Profiling Tool on Tony Robbins’s site is an excellent tool for diagnosing and better understanding your behavioral styles and personality types to help identify and maximize their personal strengths. For me, it was scarily accurate and gave some very constructive feedback about actionable improvements. Completely free and a $250 value. 

Highly recommend this, if like 4/5s of…

Now get your behind up from the chair and stretch, take a walk, get a glass of water or coffee – just move your muscles and skeleton. Apparently two hours per day are needed to stave off all sorts of maladies like diabetes and heart disease. Sitting is slow death, friends. Avoid it as much as you can – walk!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/06/02/medical-researchers-have-figur…

This might be oversimplifying the physiological underpinnings a bit, but the conclusion is spot on. Unbalanced eating and hydration habits exacerbate stomach and blood acidity to the point where the body spends far too many metabolic resources counterbalancing the ill effects, until it starts breaking down entirely. One must be very careful about consuming lots of alkaline foods and avoiding…

Don’t be put off by the title. Ramit has some truly good advice on this subject (among others), which I and hundreds of thousands of people have used successfully. It’s not about penny-punching, but about negotiating a higher salary (how to do it), establishing multiple streams of income, charging more for what you already love to do, etc. Highly recommend reading this all the way through. It’s…