Small Daily Habits to Improve Your Life: Start Today!

Are you ready to increase your happiness & fulfillment with these small daily habits to improve your life? With these small habits that I share in this blog post, you can start practising them today!

One day you’ll wake up and thank yourself for all the small daily habits that you practised in the past to create a better and more brighter today.

“On average, it takes more than 2 months before a new behavior becomes automatic — 66 days to be exact. And how long it takes a new habit to form can vary widely depending on the behaviour, the person, and the circumstances”

Thus, if a new habit you’re trying to form doesn’t stick as quickly as you expect it to, don’t be so hard on yourself or give up.

If you truly want to make positive changes in your life that stick, you’ll need to stay focused and aligned with your purpose– your why this change is important to you and why you value it.

🎉 Small habits can create big victories in your life over time.

🎉 Make your future self proud!

🎉 Improve your habits, uplevel and upgrade your life!

Recommended Reading: Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results by James Clear

Prepping your meals is one of the effective daily habits to improve your life.

Not only will you be able to save time and money,

but you will also ensure that you have healthy meals to nourish your body and brain with!

You can add meal prepping into your weekly routine by setting a day in your week to go for a food shop.

Once you’re home from your grocery shopping, you can start prepping your meals for the week ahead!

Best Weekly Meal Prep Ideas:

• Overnight oats with nut butter and fruit
• Chicken pesto pasta with broccoli and avocado
• Chicken curry, vegetables and rice
• Healthy High Protein Quiche
• Tuna greek salad
• Salmon, vegetables and rice
• Crispy Tofu with Gnocchi

Snacks:

• Fruit
• Dried figs and tahini
• Protein bars
• Banana protein shake
• Bliss balls

This small daily habit can change your life over time if you are willing to stick with it consistently.

Dedicate time in your life every day to working on a side hustle/ passion project that you are passionate about.

Find a project that is in alignment with the life you want to be living (aka your dream life) and that can make you incredible money too!

What you believe is possible for you, is.

If you don’t have the time and energy to directly put into your side hustle/ passion project one day, instead try doing something that can expand you. Learn something new, increase your knowledge, read a book or listen to a podcast.

Investing in your own personal growth and development is always a worthwhile time investment imo on the journey of becoming your best self.

Best ways to invest in your learning & personal growth and development

• Online courses and masterclasses
• Journalling
• Youtube
• Reading personal development & business/career books
• Podcasts
• Attending group networking events in likeminded spaces

Your future self will be so happy you showed up for creating and living a more happy and fulfilling life your way each day.

You have time.

It’s just, where are you choosing to spend your time and what on?

Reclaiming your time is a true game changer.

On the list of small daily habits to improve your life, this habit and prioritisation strategy is hands down one of my favourites that truly help you in accomplishing your dreams!

How to reclaim your time and attention for your goals:

• Get rid of your distractions
• Discover how to retrain your focus so that you can complete the tasks you set out for yourself
• Limit your social media usage- mute stories & posts, use a screen time app blocker
• Ask yourself this question: are you focusing on your essentials or are you just space-filling?
• Become clear on your priorities and prioritise what truly matters to you & what you value
• Set boundaries with what you are spending your time, energy and attention on

Positive Mindset Perspective:

Focus on where you want to go, what you want and the best!

Amazing Productivity Tip:

To get more quality work done, focus on deep work rather than work that is scattered.

When your focus is on so many different things and replying to text messages at the same time while you’re trying to finish a task, it can lead to getting less done or even limiting the quality of your work.

Recommended Reading: Time Magic by Melissa Ambrosini and Nick Broadhurst

Moving my body daily is a non-negotiable.

Whether you go for a walk or to a gym class, daily movement is vital for good health and well-being.

Daily movement as a small habit in your routine can improve your happiness and health.

And, improve your vitality!

Who does’nt want that??

Mindset Perspective to Support You with Being Consistent with Moving Your Body Daily:

“Even if it’s just for 10 mins today that I can exercise my body, that is better than nothing.”

Simple ways to incorporate daily movement into your routine:

• Walk to work if it’s suitable for you
• Complete at home YouTube workouts
• Practice yoga
• Stretch when you wake up and before you got to sleep
• Take dance breaks
• Go for a swim
• Take the stairs instead of the escalators
• Go for daily walks
• Take a workout class

One of the fastest ways to regulate your nervous system is by taking deep breaths.

Breathing deeply can support you in resetting your nervous system and increasing your mindfulness.

Consciously being aware of your breath throughout your day can help remind you to take deep breaths when your breaths are short.

Overall, taking some deep breaths throughout your day is one of the positive daily habits to improve your life and help reset your nervous system.

The proven benefits of regulating your nervous system:

• Assists you in calming down when you’re feeling stressed
• Makes you feel more present and grounded
• Enhances your focus and cognitive function
• Improves your quality of sleep
• Enhanced emotional resilience: making it easier to handle challenges when they arise

Intentionally viewing yourself in a positive light and feeding your mind with good-feeling thoughts is a profound way to improve your life.

If you dedicate yourself for at least the next month to intentionally using positive self-talk and catching your mind when it wants to play stories that make you feel not great,

I guarantee you will start to feel better about yourself and your world.

I want you to unconditionally love yourself!

Here’s how to improve your self-talk:

• Intentionally talk to and view yourself in a positive light: tell yourself thoughts & stories that make you feel good and healthily empowered
• Practice gratitude
• Make your daily self-care a priority- the practices that make you feel you, wholesome and grounded
• Improve your mindfulness: practice guided meditations, self-awareness and mindful eating
• Observe your thoughts
• Practice self-belief
• Set boundaries with your social media consumption
• Use discernment with who you choose to surround yourself with & set boundaries
• Affirm empowering and uplifting affirmations about yourself
• Practice self-compassion, caring for yourself and getting to understand yourself
• Practice true self-love

Practising your self-care routine is a small habit that you can every day to increase your happiness and improve your life & overall wellbeing.

Self-care is about taking time in your daily routines to care of yourself and your needs.

Ask yourself in this moment- what do I need?

Why is self-care so important?

• It can make you feel good and support you in maintaining a positive outlook on life
• Practising self-care is a great way to take care of your physical, emotional, spiritual and mental needs 
• Improves both your physical and mental health
• Self-care can be act of showing yourself love 
• Regular self-care helps prevent burnout

Best Habits to Incorporate Into Your Self-Care Routine 

• Practise mindfulness and gratitude
• Daily exercise/ movement
• Have a morning and evening skincare routine
• Take your daily vitamins and supplements
• Drink your daily recommended water intake 
• Listen to your favourite music daily
• Show up for your goals and passions- do something daily towards them. Take aligned action 🤩
• Speak kindly to yourself 
• Journal your thoughts, affirmations and dreams & goals 
• Express your creativity
• Take a long warm bath 
• Have Boundaries
• Rest
• Allow yourself to sleep! 
• Spend time outside in nature daily 
• Play!
• Eat food that nourishes you
• Spend quality time with your family, partner and friends
• Take some deep breaths  
• Keep your environment clean and tidy
• Reduce mental overwhelm by planning and setting goals to achieve
• Say no when you need & want to 
• Do something every day that makes you feel happy and joyous

There are so many beautiful simple pleasures available for you to enjoy every day!

If you’re open to embracing them, they can add happiness, meaning and satisfaction to your life. 

It’s important to enjoy the simple pleasures in life as it can help you feel more grateful and uplift your mood!

Add cherishing the simple pleasures to your daily habits to improve your life and see how your life improves.

Simple pleasures to cherish every day

• Quality time and experiences with your loved ones (family, partner, friends)
• Burning incense
• Wearing natural perfume
• Mindfully eating
• Lighting candles
• Practising gratitude
• Singing to your favourite songs
• Planning your schedule in your diary
• Drinking your morning coffee
• Setting goals and dreaming big!
• Journalling
• Listening to great music
• Slow cooked meals
• Eating meals out
• Working out
• Stopping to smell and witness the beauty of flowers
• Phone calls with your loved ones
• Soaking up the sunshine
• Naps
• Having picnics outside
• Swimming in the ocean
• Practising your self-care routine
• A good stretch
• Eating dark chocolate
• Making a vision board from inspirational pictures from Pinterest

I like to view enjoying the simple pleasures as making the effort

to intentionally add/do things in your daily routine

that make you feel warm, content and happy on the inside!

Incorporating this small daily habit of romanticising your life can be a way of showing self-love and enjoying your life more!

To romanticise is “to think about or describe something as being better or more attractive and interesting than it really is”, as described in the Britannica dictionary.

To romanticise your life to me means that something ordinary can be seen or made extraordinary. 

Some benefits of romanticising your life are increasing your happiness, satisfaction and enjoyment of life!

Who wouldn’t want to fall in love with their life more?

The best ways to romanticise your life:

• Beautify your space and environment
• Look for the beauty in each day
• Light candles and incense
• Wear beautiful perfume and clothes that make you feel great
• Savour the little things
• Take photos
• Live in the moment
• Share random acts of kindness
• Enjoy your meals by slowing down and practise mindful eating
• Do something creative
• Indulge in the sweetness of life
• Play music while you complete your tasks
• Take fresh air walks at sunset or sunrise
• Take your work to a cafe or the beach
• Read a book on your Kindle
• Surround yourself with people who inspire you
• Create traditions
• Try new things

Stay dedicated to making your dreams a reality.

Do you know that specific thing that you want to achieve,

but you have not been prioritising it or you’ve been procrastinating getting it done…

It’s time to stay focused and committed to achieving the things you’ve always wanted to do and said you would do.

This small habit of staying focused on your vision and taking aligned and consistent action

is sure to improve your life

and get you closer towards making your dreams a reality.

Do you have the dream to work for yourself?

Or do you want to afford to travel the world?

You have a desire in your heart for a reason.

Gain clarity on your goals

and stay focused, consistent and dedicated to achieving them.

It’s awesome to remind yourself that you are living the life that you once dreamed of living.

You are doing what you once dreamed of doing/

you are where you once dreamed of being.

Intentionally practising gratitude is truly an uplifting daily habit to improve your life.

There are so many benefits to this small habit.

The benefits of intentionally practising gratitude:

• Boost your happiness and contentment levels
• Enhance and strengthen your social interactions, friendships and romantic partnership
• Improved mental health
• Greater empathy and understanding
• Improved emotional regulation helping you feel better and focus on the good things in your life & what’s going well

1o Reasons to be grateful for:

1. I am grateful for change.
2. I am grateful for everything that’s already in my life. 
3. I am grateful for giving things a go.
4. I am grateful for never giving up. 
5. I am grateful for believing in myself.
6. I am grateful for living in alignment with my values.
7. I am grateful for forgiveness and letting go of what no longer serves me.
8. I am grateful for giving love and receiving love.
9. I am grateful for being able to new places.
10. I am grateful for my friends that are in my life.

This one on the list of daily habits to improve your life has been a game changer for me!

Once this habit sticks with you, there will be no going back to planning your day on the day.

Preparing yourself for success the night before is an amazing way to ensure that you’ll feel ready going into the next day.

Not only that, but when you implement this small daily habit

you can align your schedule with the right action steps that serve your vision/ goals.

Once you are clear the night before on what you need to do tomorrow,

you will clear up more mental space, time and energy to

put into the work that you needand want to accomplish.

How to plan & prepare for your day the night before:

• Get a quality sleep
• Revisit your calendar & add any important upcoming dates
• Say thank you- practice your gratitudes
• Write out what you have to do tomorrow- focus on and schedule your priorities
• Lay out your clothes for the next day
• Complete your skincare routine
• Take some deep breaths before you fall asleep
• Prepare your nutritious food to take with you to work
• Drink water or herbal tea before bed
• Put things away- complete a quick tidy-up
• Journal about how you’re feeling and what you’re feeling excited for, any dreams and exciting plans coming up?
• Mentally know your morning routine- coffee, what you’ll have for breakfast, your workout etc.

Additional tip:

Complete a weekly reset on your Sundays and plan & prepare for your happy and successful new week!

Reprioritise, reflect, congratulate your wins and review what went well and what you want to change coming into your next week.

So, what are you waiting for?

Start making the positive changes that you want to see in your life TODAY.

Let me know and the Living Her Way community know in the comments section below,

What new daily habits are you implementing into your daily routine?

Which ones that are no longer aligned with you are you switching out?

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And, remember your healthy habits are developed over time.

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