A List of 100 Things That Work Really Well

A List of 100 Things That Work Really Well

   January 15, 2018       Hardik Gandhi

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I wrote this list down, and I wanted to share it with you. I could write a whole article, at least, about each of these items, but I wanted to give you this list and see what you think of it. Here are 100 things that I know from experience work really well.

1. Persistence
2. Holding a vision for what you want and trusting that it’s coming
3. Following inspiration
4. Challenging limiting beliefs
5. Treating people with kindness and respect as much as possible
6. Being open to feedback
7. Being willing to change or pivot
8. Being patient with things breaking or not working out as planned
9. Being gentle on and with the self
10. Noticing and appreciating as much goodness as possible in others
11. Getting regular and sufficient sleep
12. Being honest and transparent
13. Enjoying and engaging with challenges
14. Catching victim thinking and taking back your power
15. Taking action to address or solve the larger problems
16. Slowing down
17. Re-evaluating priorities regularly
18. Valuing people and relationships above all else
19. Enjoying people and expressing that enjoyment
20. Not dimming your light to make others feel okay about dimming theirs
21. Continual learning
22. Taking notes
23. Writing or speaking your stream of consciousness, unfiltered, and then throwing it away
24. Trusting that everything that needs to get done will get done
25. Planning fun and enjoyable things
26. Inventing new things
27. Questioning the automatic response of “you can’t” or “it’s not possible”
28. Assuming that you have deep intrinsic value
29. Taking lots of breaks
30. Smiling and saying “hello” as much as possible
31. Trusting and empowering other people
32. Not giving a fuck about what other people think of you
33. Being deeply and adaptively selfish (instead of superficially and secretly selfish)
34. Expressing positive emotions a lot
35. Incubating and transforming negative emotions to effect change
36. Savoring each moment as much as possible
37. Making intentional mistakes
38. Experimenting to discover what’s realy true
39. Meditation, a kind that gets you more present to body sensations
40. Being deeply honest
41. Assuming that everyone is doing the best that they can
42. Wanting to inspire people by example
43. Intense exercise (e.g. high-intensity interval training)
44. Resistance training (e.g. lifting heavy weights, correctly)
45. Persisting through adversity
46. Not assuming that you should not do something because someone else already has
47. Continual improvement
48. Measuring things that you would like to improve
49. Eating minimal carbs
50. Drinking lots of water
51. Giving yourself a break
52. Not eating dairy
53. Psychotherapy
54. Coaching
55. Taking full responsibility for your emotional reactions
56. Taking zero responsibility for other people’s emotional reactions
57. Not taking other people’s actions personally
58. Recognizing that parents are humans too
59. Realizing that we’re all shitty parents
60. Not doing things that you’ll later regret
61. Not fighting with reality
62. Spending a lot of time doing nothing
63. Maximizing the time between stimulus and response
64. Sitting in hot water
65. Sitting in cold water
66. Alternating between sitting in very cold water and very hot water
67. Surfing
68. Looking into the eyes of other humans
69. Stopping reading a book when it’s boring
70. Continuing to read a book when it’s interesting
71. Not judging other people
72. Not judging yourself
73. Minimizing spending and maximizing income
74. Investing for the long term
75. Not following the crowd
76. Taking action on intuition
77. Learning to write well
78. Clarifying thoughts through slowing down to write and refine them
79. Assuming that everything happens to further your goals
80. Assuming that nobody else can steal your ideas
81. Not getting into legal battles
82. Not responding to shaming and attacks
83. Ignoring critical and negative people
84. Walking your talk
85. Keeping debt to a minimum, and eliminating it
86. Assuming you don’t know
87. Assuming others have something to teach you
88. Revealing when you don’t know something
89. Learning other languages
90. The Enneagram personality typing and growth / integration system
91. Emotional Freedom Techniques, aka tapping
92. Antibiotics
93. Probiotics
94. Patience
95. Appreciation
96. Gratitude
97. Goal setting
98. A spoonk mat to help you go to sleep
99. Much of modern medicine
100. Making long lists of things that you’re grateful for

What do you think?