Wellbeing
Small steps that worked for real people, on wellbeing.
The sky over Wellbeing · 135 small steps
- Anger arrives with information
- Anger is a boundary alarm
- Awkward is a season, not a sentence
- Criticism needs credentials
- Don't park your life at "someday"
- Get stronger at being misread
- Heal the fear first — the words follow
- Judgment is one habit, pointed two ways
- Pleasing everyone still gets you judged
- Practice having no audience
- Some advice assumes the rent is already paid
- Take the laugh back
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All 135 tips on wellbeing
- “Busy” isn’t about you
- “My responsibility” instead of “my fault”
- A slanted report can still be accurate
- Aim yourself at people, especially when the pull is inward
- Alone can be a life, not a waiting room
- Anger arrives with information
- Anger is a boundary alarm
- Ask for the ferritin, not just the iron
- Ask them how they did it
- Awkward is a season, not a sentence
- Book the assessment, and stop guessing
- Budget for the social hangover
- Call the card before you post the wallet
- Check the sliding scale before you go it alone
- Childhood dreams are not a debt
- Confidence follows competence
- Confidence is the receipt, not the ticket
- Criticism needs credentials
- Dab the balm on before the tissue does
- Depression is an illness of motivation, not a shortage of cheerfulness
- Do I have to be in the room?
- Do one new thing this weekend
- Do the push-up you can do today
- Doing everything right and feeling nothing
- Don’t believe everything you think
- Don't park your life at "someday"
- Download the map while you still have signal
- Dreamed about your ex? Don’t text them
- Drink the glass, then wait fifteen minutes
- Drink the water and count it
- Drowning is quiet
- Enamel does not grow back
- Envy can be grief in disguise
- Familiarity starves fear
- Get stronger at being misread
- Get the guard before the crown
- Get up and move; the bed makes it worse
- Give blood in the quiet weeks
- Heal the fear first — the words follow
- If they flash you, check your own lights first
- If you need to disappear for a while, say so
- If you shower and still smell
- Improve yourself because you like yourself
- It was never mostly about size
- Jealousy is the smoke, not the fire
- Judgment is one habit, pointed two ways
- Keep the beliefs that survive scrutiny
- Leave the phone in your pocket for the wait
- Let four sentences do all the talking
- Let thoughts be weather
- Loneliness bends what you see
- Look out the window every twenty minutes
- Make the sun a tie-breaker
- Meditation: becoming impartial to the weather inside
- Mortality is a lens, not a morbid thought
- Move a muscle, change a thought
- Move while it still bothers you
- Name one person, give one job
- Name the sounds in the room
- One story: the drink was the depression
- People learn the jokes you make about yourself
- Perfectionism is a hamster wheel, not a high standard
- Plan it for the new moon
- Pleasing everyone still gets you judged
- Practice having no audience
- Press your tongue to the roof of your mouth
- Pull your toes toward your shin
- Push your belly out to quiet it
- Put down the case you keep reopening
- Put lip balm on before the dentist
- Put your face in cool water
- Read the UV index before you skip it
- Rebuilding? Start with a physical
- Roll the tennis ball against the wall
- Run the bite under warm water
- Say ‘I’m blushing’ before they do
- Shave it before you start hiding it
- Show up anyway
- Show your eyes the motion
- Small promises you actually keep
- Smell the shirt dry, not the skin
- Some advice assumes the rent is already paid
- Sometimes it’s a money problem
- Spit, don’t rinse
- Stop trying to fall asleep
- Swap the en for simple in the web address
- Take the laugh back
- Take the walk after lunch
- Take two dry weeks and read the result
- Take yourself to the film
- Tell the dentist before you sit down
- Tense your legs before you stand
- The bacteria are on your tongue
- The book works when the reader is ready
- The case for tomorrow is your track record
- The clean toilet is the one nobody uses
- The compliment lifts the giver too
- The earplugs make the band sound better
- The far side of lonely
- The feed is a highlight reel
- The feeling is automatic. The next move is yours.
- The glow is mostly sleep and water
- The irritation is a mirror
- The journaling trio
- The last drops hide upstream
- The pillowcase experiment
- The regret you get to choose
- The regulars are watching the mirror
- The spotlight is mostly in your head
- The spray that works has a three-day limit
- The water goes between the drinks
- The whole-life trade
- Their reaction is their history talking
- Their win is not your loss
- They forgot it before you got home
- Tired after people, or afraid of them?
- Tired is a symptom before it's a personality
- Treat the depression, not the optics
- Turn the dome light on
- Turn the rival into a teacher
- Unlearning the verdict
- Watch the urge instead of fighting it
- Wear it at hugging distance
- What the envy is pointing at
- What the gym can carry
- When the answer keeps being “a therapist”
- Will moving fix it? Both answers are true
- Write down the panic, then check it later
- You can't out-discipline a wound
- You know your reasons. Grant them theirs.
- You're allowed to be ordinary
- Your bloopers against their highlight reel
- Your job is not your worth
- Your paycheck was never a measure of you
- Your tail lights are probably off
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