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Tuesday’s Tiny Tip: Treat Yourself to a Morning Minute
Most of us are so connected to our devices, it’s like we’re one with our phones. But what if taking a single minute in the morning before plugging into the digital demands of the day could set you up for a more blissful existence? Countless experts say it can. Those bleary, dreamy moments when you […]
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Tuesday’s Tiny Tip: The One-Minute Rule
I learned this tip from one of my happiness gurus, bestselling author Gretchen Rubin. This was the very first “try this at home” tip she offered on her “Happier” podcast (which I love), and it’s super simple: Anything task in front of you that can be done in less than a minute, do without delay. […]
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Tuesday’s Tiny Tip: Find Your Feet
Try this tip anytime you’re standing somewhere: Feel your feet on the ground. Whenever you are standing, wearing shoes or not, notice your feet Where are they, exactly? Under your hips? Wider? Side by side? Staggered? How is your weight distributed between your two feet? And each foot? Is the weight balanced between toes and […]
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Tuesday’s Tiny Tip: Try a Mindful Walk
What is a mindful walk, you say? It’s just like a regular walk, but instead of ruminating on whatever’s going on inside your head, you tune into the sights, sounds and feelings around you. Leaves blowing in the wind, birds chirping in the trees, the crisp almost-spring air on your skin. The Greater Good Science […]
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Tuesday’s Tiny Tip: Don’t Believe Everything You Think
So this tip really isn’t tiny at all, because even being aware of what we’re thinking is hard. Thoughts come so constantly, so incessantly, that it can feel as though we are passive in the process, like the thoughts are just coming and we have nothing to do with how they got there. But (one […]
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Tuesday’s Tiny Tip: Plan a Personal Playdate
When was the last time you treated yourself to a playful outing just for the fun of it? It’s time to plan a personal playdate. My inspiration for this tip (and so many other things) comes from “The Artist’s Way, ” Julia Cameron’s classic book. She suggests readers keep a weekly “artist date” with themselves, […]
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Tuesday’s Tiny Tip: Find and Post a Childhood Photo
You can increase your capacity for self-kindness and self-compassion with this tiny tip: Put up a childhood photo of yourself and look at it often. If you’re like me, you’ve spent decades being your own harshest critic, giving short shrift to your achievements and aiming your internal telescope unflinchingly on perceived shortcomings. A common affliction, […]
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Tuesday’s Tiny Tip: Pomodoro Technique
This timer technique can be incredibly effective, especially when you need to focus on a task you’re reluctant to handle. Developed in the 1980s by Francesco Cirillo, who I guess invented setting a timer, the pomodoro technique is a time-management approach that calls for working in focused 25-minute blocks separated by five-minute breaks. (He apparently […]
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Tuesday’s Tiny Tip: Make Your Passwords Purposeful
This tip is so tiny and so easy, but yields big benefits: Make your passwords into affirmations. Most of us have to enter computer and account passwords multiple times a day, so why not make them opportunities for little bursts of support or encouragement? At my journalism job, we had to change our account passwords […]
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Tuesday’s Tiny Tip: Try a New Traffic Mindset
At my first newspaper job, I had a writing coach named Tony who would offer Tony’s Tiny Tip of the Day (“Use action verbs! The words at the end of a sentence play jazz!”) In honor of Tony, I share Tuesday’s tiny tip — something instantly implementable to boost your mood, self-worth, health, work or […]
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