The Best Minute: Simple improvement, being happy, and choosing busyness

1 PERSONAL GROWTH SOLUTION FROM ME

When it comes to creating better habits and routines to be the person you want to be, don’t overcomplicate it.

Think about the pain point you want to solve. For example:

Eating better
Going to bed on time
Learning an instrument

And then pick routines that are attainable with little effort:

Eating better = eat one fruit a day
Going to bed on time = set a bedtime alarm on your phone
Learning an instrument = Practice for 5 minutes a day (only go longer if you want to on a given day)

Start with something small that doesn’t require much willpower to accomplish. Small consistencies over time make the biggest impact. Trying to radically change a behavior overnight often leads to discouragement and failure. Decide on the pain point you want to solve and then pick a simple routine you can do with little effort. You can always add more later.

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2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS

I. Charles Kingsley on what actually makes us happy:

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”

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II. Debbie Millman on why busyness is a choice:

“We are now living in a society that sees busy as a badge. It has become cultural cachet to use the excuse ‘I am too busy,’ as a reason for not doing anything we don’t feel like doing. The problem is this: if you let yourself off the hook for not doing something for any reason, you won’t ever do it. If you want to do something, you can’t let being busy stand in the way, even if you are busy. Make the time to do things you want to do and then do them.”

1 INTERESTING FACT

Amazon was almost given a completely different name.

The company was originally called Cadabra, like the magic term "abracadabra." But Jeff Bezos' lawyer told him that the magic reference was too obscure, and when you say it out loud, "cadabra" could be mistaken for "cadaver." Eventually, they came up with the name Amazon, a reference to the river in South America.

The idea was that their selection of books would be vast and wide, just like the world's largest river. They did have many other names in mind and still own one of the domains. If you type in Relentless.com in your browser, you will be redirected to Amazon.com.

Source: Business Insider