5 days that will turn your life around

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

We think that at least once it seemed to everyone that life had stopped and did not change, everything was enough, I did not want anything. One day merges with another, and so months and years pass. You can fight this. And PR manager and blogger Alina Rodina knows how.

It would seem that it is difficult to do something differently from usual at least once? Try to live outside the box for just a few days, without relying on habitual patterns of behavior. It is not for nothing that they say that if everything is tired, you need to look at the world from a different angle!

So, I invite you to live the next five days in a completely unusual way.

Day one: be left-handed

90% of people who read this article are right-handed, another 9% are left-handed, and only 1% are ambidextrous (people who have equal control of both hands). On the Internet, you can find many stories about the genius and non-standard thinking inherent in the latter two groups. So, ambidextrous and left-handed were Albert Einstein, Michelangelo, Nikola Tesla, Leonardo da Vinci, Alexander Fleming, Benjamin Franklin, and from modern heroes are Angelina Jolie, Keanu Reeves, Tom Cruise and even Barack Obama.

I propose to join this fun company for a day and try to change your working hand. To begin with, you can shift all your household needs to the left foot. Now you will probably be able to remember in detail how you put the kettle on to boil, how you opened the door to the office, how you brushed your teeth in the morning and even what kind of foot you got up on … And all because from now on you will perform these automatic actions consciously! And you also have to re-learn how to write and eat. It is especially interesting to get it from sushi.

Smart scientists in equally smart scientific articles argue that such exercises are very useful and contribute to the formation of new neural connections in the cerebral cortex.

In addition, having learned to act outside the box in the little things, at the physical level, you will be able to make non-standard decisions and see emerging problems from new perspectives.

Day two: answer your social media messages

Recently I read about an experiment by the editor of The Village magazine. Sergei Babkin told how he called back everyone who wrote him messages on social networks for a whole week.

I found it very interesting. Firstly, in this way you fight the soullessness of messengers for the right to live communication (well, or half-alive, by phone). Secondly, this is something that people do not expect, a kind of break in the template … For example, Katya posted a video about cats, and you to her: “Hello, hello! What a cool video you found! It cheered me up! Thanks! Isn't it better than like?

Or another unexpected turn of events: a typical goose, with whom you have been texting for a long time and have been actively debating on Facebook, but have never seen each other, sends another message proving your most correct point of view, and you reply to him - “Dude, give I have my mobile number, I will dial."

I think such an experiment will not only surprise and delight your friends, but also help you improve your communication skills. It's also a kind of way out of your comfort zone. After all, typing a couple of letters on the keyboard is much easier than calling and talking to a person in person.

Day three: pretend to be rich

Many of us dream of a house by the sea, a beautiful expensive car, travel around the world and a small safe with a couple of three million euros. But what if you imagine that you already have it all?

Imagine yourself as a rich person and live this day with the appropriate thoughts. Stop by a luxury boutique for an evening gown to hit the red carpet in Cannes. Find out from travel agencies what interesting vacation options in exotic countries they can offer you. Sign up for a test drive to drive your dream car. After all, grab a cup of coffee in an eerily pretentious and expensive restaurant.

The essence of this experiment is to allow yourself to have everything that you want so much. Indeed, very often we consider ourselves unworthy of our desires, and a tricky cockroach sits in our head, which continually whispers: "You cannot live like this!" Curb your cockroach for a day: suddenly the law of attraction will work and your thoughts will attract the desired reality to you.

Day four: don't talk

Once I witnessed how a deaf-mute man was returning home slightly drunk and, apparently, forgot or lost his keys. His wife is also deaf and dumb. Therefore, he spent 30 minutes spinning around his house, coming up with different ways to call his wife and ask her to open the door.

And then it dawned on me: after all, these people have to communicate with this world every day in the No sound mode. Nod silently when you are offered a package in the supermarket, or politely but again silently dodge an answer when asked how to get to the library. And also restrain yourself when the insolent aunt in the minibus starts wailing about the "toxicity" of your spirits. And (oh gods!) Do not sing in the shower and do not even purr under your breath another bored hit. Do you think this is easy?

Try playing silent for a few days. If work does not allow, you can arrange yourself a challenge on the weekend. I think this weekend will definitely not go as usual, and even a couple of funny stories will be generated for get-togethers with friends.

Day five: become your opposite

A psychologist friend of mine claims that if you are annoyed by certain character traits in another person, then these traits are often the object of envy. This is something that you cannot afford, that you suppress and are afraid to openly demonstrate.

For me, such qualities are courage and arrogance. When I see someone without any modesty goes to our boss and says that he needs a raise in salary because “buckwheat has risen in price”, I am seized with terrible envy. Why can't I do that? Or when someone goes to the doctor's office without a queue, because he “needs it” or “it’s for a minute, just ask,” and you’ve been standing in the morning and clapping your ears. It's a shame.

Therefore, on the final day of our unusual five-day week, I suggest you be your antipode. If you've been an overly active and energetic person before, try relaxing and living in the flow at your own pace. If you laughed a lot and hounded anecdotes at every opportunity, be more serious and talk to people on high topics. Spent the weekend alone with your cat and laptop? Go to people. Hanging out all evenings with friends in clubs? Go home to the cat.

Try to be different! And then, at the end of the day, reflect on how comfortable or uncomfortable you were in this new state. Perhaps you want to develop some qualities in yourself so that they will help you in life and beyond.

If you are still complaining that you are bored and “everything is wrong,” try using these simple tips and step away from the system for at least five days. Better yet, change your life for good this year.