Check out three motivating ways having less will result in more happiness so you can remember that the end goal isn't less things, but more joy.
Not exact matches
Writer James Clear suggests starting small, choosing one
thing to improve incrementally every day, and committing to
not pushing off
things that take
less than two minutes to do, such as washing the dishes after a meal or eating a piece of fruit to work toward the goal of eating healthier.
Here's one from Getting
Things Done: when a task takes
less than two minutes, don't schedule it, don't set it aside for later, don't set a reminder — just take care of it.
It doesn't make you softer or
less effective or any of those
things.
Deloitte's
Lesser says
things aren't quite that simple.
Studies indicate carbon dioxide emissions from transportation in the province have declined 16 % in that time, and while it's impossible to draw a direct causal relationship between the tax and the emissions decline, it's fair to say it was a factor contributing to indisputable behavioural changes — you can't emit 16 %
less CO2 by doing the same
things you did before.
The hard work is done — all that remains is to bring the cost of the meat down to
less than the real
thing, which may
not be that hard to do if the demand for and cost of beef keeps skyrocketing, especially in China.
Thinking a few hours - even days — ahead will make your future self
less stressed and way more productive when you don't have to waste time finding, fixing and doing
things in the moment you need them.
«People are
less inhibited, and they then will engage in
things they would want to do all the time but wouldn't normally because it would be frowned upon in their social circles.»
So,
not only are people getting paid
less,
things are getting more expensive, which makes people feel both frustrated and poor.
These are really easy
things to do and I can rattle through ten of them in about ten minutes (if
not less).
And they're
not just saving money on rent and commuting costs, Matt tells CNBC: «We also need
less stuff to fill our place, and we feel
less social pressure to buy more
things to match our living situation.»
This required us to dial back our expenses slightly -
things like
less eating out for dinners, packing my lunch for work more often, and cutting the cord on cable TV (we still don't miss it today).
Yes, braggers and boasters get noticed by thrusting themselves into the spotlight, but the only
thing their antics achieve is a growing sense of resentment from people who couldn't care
less.
But here's the
thing: Like them, you probably didn't launch a business to make
less money than you did at your last job.
EASTWOOD: So anyway, we did that and then I went to Tokyo and where they hadn't been too fond of Americans going there and filming, I sold the governor who was actually the mayor of Tokyo, I sold him on the idea that this would be a great
thing for the Japanese people that didn't even know this battle even existed much
less how tough it was.
Somebody who should get more focused when
things get bad,
not less focused, and should actually get more patient at the severity of the situation,
not less patient.
The new - product launch, by contrast, is
less of a sure
thing, as the fine - art world isn't looking for a new transportation case —
not even a bombproof one.
When you try to do several
things at once, you aren't more productive, but
less by as much as 40 percent, according to brain scan studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In many cases, improvement is
not about doing more
things right, but about doing
less things wrong.
Kids who develop growth mindsets set higher goals, had a healthier attitude toward effort and failure, and were
less likely to complain about being «bored» (which fixed - mindset kids use as a cover or excuse to explain why they don't try difficult
things).
«If you don't write
things down, you end up cluttering your mind, leaving
less memory storage for more important
things,» Wong says, «and
less brain capacity for other process, including creativity.»
This is a far
less volatile way of doing
things than using exchange rates: for example, the price of a hamburger doesn't jump 27 % simply because of currency fluctuations.
The interesting
thing about getting to the next level is that more isn't more,
less is more.
If you're one of those companies, then
not only are you leaving money on the table by
not testing
less expensive options, but you are missing a wave of new consumers that are
not yet ad blind on those next new
things.
Along with these issues is the temptation for Americans across age groups to spend beyond their means on
things they might
not need, making retirement savings even
less of a priority.
And the best way to compete with the winner (or current market leader) is by either doing
less (
not more) and focusing on one
thing and doing it very well.»
It's
not that it's gotten lazy, but that it invested heavily in getting better and better at
things people care
less and
less about.
It's
not because we want to make
things more expensive, it is because we can't figure out how to make it
less expensive.»
Four months later, the reflation trade, while
not quite dead, seems
less a sure
thing.
For those living on
less, it's good to know that there's still the option of doing those
things and that you don't need a ton of money to live a good life.
Corporations like Procter & Gamble, Clorox, and Colgate - Palmolive aren't likely to sell
less toothpaste, shaving cream, laundry detergent, and dish soap unless
things get really, really bad.
The one
thing investors should be able to count on is for the Chinese Central Government to more or
less deliver on its economic promises because they can
not afford
not to.
There are
things that don't come back, or don't come back in
less than a generation.»
She added that «anything
less than 600 is
not a good
thing.»
Taking the bus instead of a cab when I have time to get somewhere or switching my standard Oregon pinot noir order to a much
less expensive gin and tonic doesn't seem like a huge amount, but those 2
things add up to about $ 1,200 a year in savings for me.
The writer is a an executive who retired unexpectedly at 52 after
things didn't work out at his job and he realized that he already has enough to retire, even though what he had was far
less than his original retirement goal.
More specifically,
things are
not looking all that great on the charts
less than 24 hours after this change was introduced.
We, on the other hand, view it with hope: because more than anything, the events of the past few days show that the truth is getting out — the truth that capital markets simply can
not exist under the authoritarian rule of central planners, the truth that the stock market is a casino in which the best one can hope for a quick flip, and finally the truth that our entire socio - economic regime, whose existence has been predicated by borrowing from the uncreated wealth of the future, and where accumulated debt could be wiped out at the flip of a switch if
things go wrong in the process obliterating the welfare of billions (of
less than 1 % ers), is one big lie.
There weren't many bright spots in the province's financial update, but if one
thing made it a bit
less awful than it could have been, it was that oil and gas revenues are now projected to be considerably higher than the 2016 budget's fairly gloomy outlook.
Don't take
things for granted just because you're paying
less towards your debt!
Lately, I have been getting lazy and just haven't felt like doing the whole straight shave
thing with the artist club and wanted to do something faster and and slightly
less involved.
And after a record run for technology stocks, maybe
less exposure isn't the worst
thing.
We could cut a few
things — our bi-weekly date night (a movie, or a dinner, never both), eating
less meat (though that doesn't appeal to me, as -LSB-...]
Legendary basketball coach John Wooden once said: «The more concerned we become over the
things we can't control, the
less we will do with the
things we can control.»
If Instant Preview for ads reduces the number of clicks on ads, this means
less direct revenue for Google, which would appear to
not be a good
thing.
If we took a company with complicated software or business processes or other
things that maybe aren't clear to people in the field it is
less obvious, right?
Renting can be
less expensive than buying since you're
not shelling out money for
things like maintenance, repairs, property taxes or homeowner's insurance.
Allen follows up about these newer, more unexpected enthusiasts, and Chaput suggests that maybe some of them «would prefer a church that wouldn't have strict norms and ideas about the moral life and about doctrine, and they somehow interpret the pope's openness and friendliness as being
less concerned about those
things.
Yes our quality of life is still quite good relative to SOME other countries... that
not really what people are thinking though when they use the term «3rd world country» — they are talking about the trending that they see — and the media reflects a perception out there that
things are trending in a negative direction... look, if you read my original posts, you will see that they have much
less to do with our economy as they have to do with WHY we are involved in the middle east and the SOCIAL impact of that.