These 3 pillars of your day have the ability to potentially change your life. It doesn’t matter if you’re a teenager like me or in your 40s. They will slingshot your journey towards your goals like it is doing on mine.

Gratitude Journaling

When you open the fridge, you see food. Isn’t that amazing?

When you open your cupboard, you see good clothes to wear. Isn’t that amazing too?

It’s all about the gratefulness in small things that lead you to a content-filled life.

When you express gratitude in even small things like that, you emit a positive energy that compels people towards you, making you that person everyone wants to be around.

How do you do this daily to keep that positive energy ever-lasting? Just write 2-3 sentences about what you’re grateful for in your diary or just the notetaking app on your phone (starting your journal/diary is a great option).

It doesn’t have to be any intellectual-level stuff. It can be as simple as “I am grateful that I took the course” OR “I am grateful for this water bottle”

When you’ve been doing this for some time, you can start adding a small story like “I am grateful for that course I purchased as it led to exposure to an insane amount of value and a roadmap to my goals”.

Meditation

Meditation is the single best thing you can do for yourself. 10 minutes a day for the rest of your life. By meditating, your attention span increases, developing a brain that can purely focus on the task at hand for several hours without getting distracted.

In today’s generation, mediocre human beings cannot do that. Everyone is weak and therefore it’s so easy to win if you do the right things relentlessly. Meditation is one of them.

Just envision, that you and your competition are working for the same outcome. You just dedicating those extra 10 minutes of meditating will outwork them in every aspect. Just because you can sit and focus!

How do you do it? Simple. Sit in a comfortable position, close your eyes, and just focus on your breathing while breathing through your belly. When distracted, focus your attention again on the breath and continue the cycle.

Bursting a myth here: It’s not that you should sit in that so-called meditated state where you place your hands on your knees and join your index finger and thumb together. Try out alternatives if it doesn’t work for you.

I began meditating 15 months ago, starting with guided meditations, whether it be a calming sound or an entire video guiding you. Search it up on YouTube if you think it’ll work for you in the initial stages. Just remember to slowly detach from it after some time and meditate without any external source.

Journaling

You can articulate all your ideas by putting them down on a sheet of paper. All you need is a pen and paper to transform your life around.

Whenever I am reading a book and can’t comprehend a certain topic, I’ll just go and write how I perceive it in my journal. Guess what? It all starts to make sense whilst I am writing.

You can start just by writing how your day went or write about what was stressing you out but later found out was redundant.

It is one of the best tools for problem-solving.

Whenever faced with a problem in your life, just write “Problem:” and write it thoroughly so you can articulate it. Then, write “Solutions:” and write down all the solutions you can come up with.

That’s it, when you do that, you don’t have to run to other people to have their opinions. Just using your own practical thinking and intelligence will get you far better results than asking for validation from people.

Note: It’s not that you shouldn’t take others opinions. It’s just that when the problem lies in your control, why not try to solve it yourself?

Actionable Steps

• 3 sentences of gratitude every day

• Start by taking a single deep breath/ day and go on from there. Meditate.

• You can change your life with just a pen and paper. Write. journal.