{"id":26785,"date":"2022-01-12T20:18:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T20:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/?p=26785"},"modified":"2022-01-12T20:18:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T20:18:33","slug":"small-ways-to-improve-your-life-without-really-trying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/2022\/01\/small-ways-to-improve-your-life-without-really-trying\/","title":{"rendered":"Small ways to improve your life without really trying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our CARE team shared some great tips from a recent article. Whether it\u2019s taking fruit to work or being polite to rude strangers there are countless ways to make your life better in the new year with little effort involved. The Guardian summarized this in their article \u201c100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying.\u201d Below are the top 10, but check out the article for the full list at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2022\/jan\/01\/marginal-gains-100-ways-to-improve-your-life-without-really-trying\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2022\/jan\/01\/marginal-gains-100-ways-to-improve-your-life-without-really-trying<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exercise on a Monday night (nothing fun happens on a Monday night)<\/li>\n<li>On the fence about a purchase? Wait 72 hours before you buy it.<\/li>\n<li>Tip: the quickest supermarket queue is always behind the fullest cart (greeting, paying and packing take longer than you think).<\/li>\n<li>Laugh shamelessly at your own jokes.<\/li>\n<li>Consider going down to four days a week. It\u2019s likely a disproportionate amount of your fifth day\u2019s work is taxed anyway, so you\u2019ll lose way less than a fifth of your take-home pay.<\/li>\n<li>Everyone has an emotional blind spot when they fight. Work out what yours is, and remember it.<\/li>\n<li>Plant spring bulbs, even if they\u2019re just in a pot.<\/li>\n<li>Send a voice note instead of a text; they sound like personal mini podcasts.<\/li>\n<li>Keep a bird feeder by a window, ideally the kitchen. It\u2019ll pass the time when you\u2019re washing up.<\/li>\n<li>Set aside 10 minutes a day to do something you really enjoy \u2013 be it reading a book or playing Halo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wellness.cooperhealth.org\/100-ways-to-slightly-improve-your-life-without-really-trying-in-the-new-year\/\">100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying in the new year \u2013 Compassion &amp; Resiliency Experience (C.A.R.E.) Program (cooperhealth.org)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our CARE team shared some great tips from a recent article. Whether it\u2019s taking fruit to work or being polite to rude strangers there are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wellness"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26789,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26785\/revisions\/26789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}