A step-by-step guide to get richer, healthier, and happier in 31 days
- Forget old-school self-help.
- With this 31-day guide full of sage life advice, you can head into the new year feeling confident to tackle anything.
- Tasks include overhauling your LinkedIn, practicing a new language, and setting a savings goal based on your age.
2019 is upon us. Meaning it's time to stop thinking about how to improve your health, job, relationships, and life in general — and time to start doing. And we're here to help.
Above is our 31-day guide to starting off a healthy, wealthy, happy year. Each day is accompanied by a task, along with a quick explanation of why it's important.
Read on to find out how to set yourself up for success.
SEE ALSO: 13 experts share their favorite tips so you can make 2019 your most productive year yet
January 1: Ask yourself: What do I want that I already have? What else, if anything, do I truly want?
Katherine Schafler, a New York psychotherapist, wrote about the "ambition trap" in a post for Thrive Global. It's the tendency for getting everything we want to make us unhappy.
"The more self-aware you are, the easier it'll be for you to distinguish between what you like, and what you actually want to acquire," she writes. "But how do we make that distinction? As human beings, we're so used to wanting more as a default mode. More food, more money, more friends, more sex, more stuff, more time, more attention. So how do we start wanting less?"
It starts with the questions posed above.
January 2: Stop hitting the snooze button.
It might feel as though pressing the snooze button in the morning gives you a little bit of extra rest to start your day, but the truth is that it does more harm than good.
That's because when you wake up, your endocrine system begins to release alertness hormones to get you ready for the day. By going back to sleep, you're slowing this process. Plus, nine minutes doesn't give your body time to get the restorative, deep sleep it needs.
January 3: Start keeping track of your net worth.
One of the easiest ways to keep track of your financial progress is to monitor your net worth: everything you own minus everything you owe.
As a financial planner in New York, Business Insider's Lauren Lyons Cole says one of the first tasks she asks clients to complete is their current financial snapshot, an overview of every aspect of their financial situation, including account balances. Once you can see all your money in one place, you can start figuring out what you want to do with it.
Bonus: Getting organized frees up brain space so you don't have to think about money nearly as much.
See the rest of the story at Business Insider