100 Ways to Develop Your Mind 1. Do the Thing You Fear the Most.

If theres one thing that will change your thoughts quickerthan anything else, its facing your fears. 2. Stand up For Yourself A lot of people have difficulty in standing up for themselves.The first time you do it can be very empowering and yourthoughts about yourself will change forever. SeeDealing WithConfrontation 3. Stop Talking Its great to be silent for just a little while. Our thoughts turninward and we begin to appreciate ourselves just a littlemore. 4. Strengthen Your Strengths Sometimes we focus too much on trying to strengthen ourweaknesses when we should be concentrating onstrengthening our strengths. 5. Take A Walk Around an Art Gallery You might not appreciate art or participate in it but its greatto see the thoughts of others on canvas. It can give us a tinyglimpse of what goes on in other peoples minds. 6. Blindfold Yourself for a Day Walk in the shoes of a blind person for 1 full day, it willforever change the way you think about life. 7. Stand on a Chair for 5 Minutes Per Day Building self discipline is a great way to take control of yourmind and your thoughts. If you just get up and stand on asturdy chair your mind will be wondering what the hells goingon and try and force you to get off the chair. Disciplining yourmind is a great way to start changing your life.See Self Discipline 8. Dance When Theres Nobody There Its a strange sensation to dance on your own, although whenI have done this I look like a dog having a seizure, nonethelessits a great way to let go of your inhibitions. 9. Give Money to Someone Unexpectedly Whether it be on the internet, or in the street, just give alarger than normal donation to someone. This again isliberating and your thoughts about money will change for afew moments (thats all it takes to start the process of changing your life.) 10. Strengthen Your Thoughts About Yourself Reinforce your thoughts about your good points. If you aregood at talking to people, tell yourself this often. If you aregood at maths, tell yourself often. This has the benefit of reinforcing and strengthening yourself image. 11. Take A Risk Life would be boring without ever having taken a risk in yourlife. Do something that you didnt want to do because youthought you wouldnt be any good at it. This totally smashesthe boundaries of your comfort zone and your life couldchange forever.Read This Post by Robin Easton 12. Talk To A Stranger Again this is breaking our comfort zones, but just saying hi tostranger in the street or good morning can have an enormousimpact on your day and the person you said hi to. 13. Walk Around The House Naked I can almost feel the shock at this. I dont mean when youvegot guests in, I mean when everybody is out. Lock the doorand totally liberate yourself and your thinking of whats rightand whats wrong. I wouldnt advise doing it all the time, butfrom time to time, its a great feeling. 14. Read A Book By An Author You Most Avoid reading books by authors we avoid gives us a chance to takecontrol of our minds and lets us see another side to ourthinking. Weve got to ask why we avoid them in the firstplace, is it something within us that we are avoiding? 15. Write An Article About Yourself Imagine a newspaper has asked you to write an article of 1000 words or less about yourself and your life and they wantto know what motivates you in life, now write the article. Thishelps put your life into some perspective and gets youthinking about your childhood and growing up. 16. Stop Contact With Your Down People If you have people in your life who constantly drag you down,or are negative all the time, drop them. Honestly drop themfrom your life, you are not serving them and they are notserving you and they are dragging your thoughts down.ReadThis Post by Dan And jennifer 17. Believe In Yourself A lot of people believe their life has been pre-destined andtheres nothing we can do to change it absolute rubbish.YOU are the only person who controls the universe, yes I didmean universe. Your universe is different from mine so youcontrol your own universe, think about that and start actingupon it. 18. Meditate Every Day Another powerful thing that has the power to change yourlife and your thinking for good. Retreating into your mind fora few minutes every day will do you a power of good.ReadHow To Meditate 19. Ask For A Discount When you buy anything from a shop that is over $100, ask fora discount. Tell the salesman youd like a 10% discount on theitem. Most people are so afraid of doing this but its a greatway to empower yourself and let go of another inhibition,whats the worst that can happen? 20. Risk Embarrassment Imagine if you had seen the person of your dreams on a bus,or at the store and you didnt do anything about it how muchwould you kick yourself. If this happens to you, do somethingabout it, dont keep it hidden. Just say to them you thoughtyou would

come over and say how attractive they looked andfelt you had to tell them. You never know what will happenand how much your life could be changed. Obviously dontturn into a weirdo and do it with every good looking personon the street. 21. Work Toward, What You Think, Is An Impossible Goal If you work toward a goal without expectation you dont careabout the outcome as much. When you dont care about theoutcome, you dont have as much expectation. 22. Practice Gratitude We all know what we dont have in our lives because wespend a lot of time wishing we had them, but are we reallythankful for what we have? Spend time every single day beingthankful for the good things we do have in our lives. readThePost at ZenHabits on Gratitude 23. Do Something Nice And Dont Tell Anyone About It We tell others about our acts of kindness to let them knowhow nice we are and to seek approval. If you keep your act of kindness to yourself without ever telling anyone the feeling of positive energy lasts much longer. 24. Share Your Skills Everybody has a skill of some kind. When you share it you notonly have the power to help others, but you enhance yourown skill by owning it. 25. Dont Talk Just Listen Enhance your listening skills by not talking when someone isspeaking to you. Resist the urge to speak your views whensomeone is talking to you, just listen to them and ask themmore open ended questions at the appropriate times. Thishas two benefits: a) You can really listen if you are notformulating the stories in your own head when someone istalking b) you will make the other person feel great as you areactively listening to them. 26. Write Your Future Life Story Start from the age you are just now and start writing yourfuture life story as youd like it to be. Be as outrageous as youwant and just write about your ideal life and how you interactwith it. Words on paper are powerful and can help shapeyour goals. 27. Give Someone A Gift For No Reason We always assume someone buys us a gift for a reasonwhether it be a birthday, christmas or special occasion. Buysomeone a gift just because you know they would like it. 28. Pass On Your Good Books If youve read a book and it changed your thinking or life insome way, pass it on to someone else who might benefit.; 29. Spend More Time With Your Kids Your kids will grow up very quickly, spend as much time asyou can with them. 30. Forgive Behavior The way we behave doesnt necessarily reflect our truethoughts. Remember this when someone acts out of character and behaves in a way you dont approve of. 31. Allow Yourself To Be A Lazy Git We are so used to filling our time with useful things to do andbeing productive we have forgotten the art of laziness. Beinglazy is good every ONCE IN A WHILE and it allows our mind toslow down and relax. 32. What Is Your Best Quality Today Every morning for 10 seconds just state, out loud if you can,what your best quality is. Try and change it every day. Thisreinforces your strengths and weakens your perceivedweaknesses. 33. Write A Comment If you visit a blog you like, leave a comment and join in thecommunity of people. Or, if there is not much of acommunity, be part of starting it. 34. Tell Your Friends And Colleagues How Good They Are If a friend or colleague does something good, tell them howgood they are at that particular task. This reinforces someoneelse strengths or strengthens their weaknesses and makesthem feel good about themselves. 35. Make A Video Of Yourself And Post It To Youtube Why on earth would you do this? Just because you can! 36. List All Your Worries Make a list of every single worry you have at the moment.You will notice that you dont have as many worries as youthought. Worrying consumes our thinking and we think ourwhole life is one big worry. When you get it down on paperits extremely surprising that you dont have as many as youdthought. 37. Work On Each Worry In Turn Now that you have all your worries listed. Go through themand start acting on them in turn. If you find worries youcannot act upon it means there is nothing you can do tochange the outcome of that worry, so forget it, why wastemind energy on something you cannot control at all?ReadThis Post for More Info 38. Read About Successful People If you want to change your thoughts and change your liferead about people who have already done it and use them asguides.

39. Tweet Your Moods If you use twitter why not tweet your moods daily and see if there is some kind of pattern after a few months. 40. Stop Watching Soaps

Soap operas actually have the power to alter your state of mind. People get so caught up in the emotions of the soapthat they experience what the actors and actresses are doing. 41. Have A News Break What would happen if you never read a newspaper for aweek? nothing at all, your life wouldnt change, you wouldntrun out of things to talk about, you would still be as up on theworld as everyone else. Newspapers sell because of theirdoom and gloom, read it and you are buying into it. 42. Do Something Spontaneous Jump on a bus without looking at the destination, book aholiday, take time off work, take your partner away, buy yourkids a gift; do anything and make sure its out of character,(expand that boundary). 43. Write To An Author Authors are people just like you and I and they love gettingfeedback about their work. If a book touched you in someway or changed you, take time to write to the author andthank them. Dont look for a reply, just thank them. 44. Follow your instincts We dont trust ourselves nearly enough as we should. Followyour instincts more and pay attention to the signals yourbody is picking up and see where it takes you. You might findthat your conscious brain gets in the way of your body signalsa lot of the time.Read This Post for More Info 45. If You Find Some Money Give It To Charity If you find money in the street dont pocket it, give it tosomeone who is homeless or better yet buy them a meal withit. If its a suitcase full of money, thats obviously a differentstory. 46. Your Thoughts Really Do Have Power When you realize this, it will change your thinking in so manyways. I cant tell you that its true you have to experience itfor yourself. 47. Always Admit It When You Have Made A Mistake Dont blame others or hide behind someone else. Hold yourhands up and admit you made a mistake, no matter what theconsequences are. You will be much more respected this way.However, dont take the blame for others. 48. Do Something Every Day To Improve Your Mind Learn a new word, do an anagram puzzle, sudoku your mind,read a book, read a stimulating blog post, anything that willhelp your mind just a little. Just a little turns into somethinghuge. 49. Change Your Thinking Style If something is not working out, try and change your thinkingstyle and come at it from another angle. This is true of everything in life. 50. What Do You Really Want To Do In Life You will find most people cannot answer this question simplybecause they are plodding along with life. When you knowwhat you really want to do with your life then your life takesanother path.read This Post by Dragos Roua 51. Pass On Your Knowledge Knowledge is for sharing, let others know what you know if its appropriate. 52. Ask For What You Want In Life If you dont ask you wont get. Asking for your wants puts itout there. I mean literally ask and metaphorically ask. Whenyou want a big house or a mansion, ask out loud and send itout there. When you want the smaller things in life, ask forthem from people who can give you them. Always pay itforward. 53. When Someone Does You A Good Turn Pay It Forward If you receive a compliment, thank the person and look for anopportunity to give someone else a compliment. If youreceive a gift, give a gift to someone else at an opportunetime. 54. Always Have A Good Breakfast We underestimate the power of food to keep our brainshealthy and our minds alive with energy. If you dont eat thatmuch, make sure you have a good breakfast to set you up forthe day.Read this post on eating by Vin Miller 55. What Would People Say About You If You Died This is not a morbid thought, but I often think about whatpeople would say about me at my funeral. The thing is theones who might say something bad, I cant really not invitebecause Ill be dead. However, the important people are onesI would care about most and I would like to develop my lifesvalues based on what people would say about me at myfuneral; he was a caring man, he was a family man, he alwaystold the truth no matter how hard it might seem, he hadintegrity etc. 56. Sing Your Heart Out I love to sing, I hopeless at it, but I love it. We have a radiostation over in the UK called gold and it plays music from the60s, 70s and 80s and I sing at the top of my voice as there isalways something on thats good. My sons are not verypleased about it though 57. Love The One Youre With Always let your partner know how much you love them bytelling them and showing them. This way your mind isfocused on them for at least part of the day.

58. Pacing Whilst Studying This has helped me a lot over the years. I paced my waythrough university. My theory is that the body and mind isbeing stimulated with the exercise you are doing whilstwalking, this makes the blood flow. Blood flow to the brainhelp you to study and remember. 59. Make New friends

Whether it be online or offline. Keeping yourself busy sociallyis stimulating for the mind and lets you see the world fromothers peoples perspective. 60. Make Love Regularly Releasing the feel good chemicals, endorphins, into yourbloodstream is a great way to stimulate the mind. I have toadmit to feeling much more creative after making love. 61. Listen To Music This stimulates the mind and can have tremendous benefitsfor your thoughts, therefore your life. I love listening toBaroque music whilst driving at night, I love rousing rockdriving during the day and dance trance music at theweekend whist driving 62. Listen To A Book Instead Of The Radio Getting downloadable books from Amazon.com orAudible.com is a great way to spend long journeys and learnsomething at the same time. 63. Have A Sleep In I am not a big fan of sleeping longer than I have to, butsometimes its great to lie in bed for a few hours longer thannormal. It helps the brain recuperate. 64. Turn Off The TV Theres nothing more brain numbing than having the TV onall day every day. Exercise your mind and read a book, or atleast watch something educational.Read this post by VinMiller 65. Look For Evidence Of Your Beliefs This will develop your mind and your critical thinking. If youlook for evidence of your beliefs such as what is the evidencethat sea water is blue or green, youll discover some greatinformation on during your research. 66. Take Micro Naps Taking a micro nap for 10 minutes a few times a day doeswonders for your brain energy.read this post on Micro Naps 67. Travel Often Travel really does broaden your horizons especially if youreally get into the local food and culture. 68. Tidy House Tidy Mind There really is nothing better than clearing your house oroffice space to clear your mind. When the house is not tidythere is always a niggling at the back of your mind. When thehouse, office and workspace is totally clean and tidy it freesyour mind to concentrate on work or your family at home.read this post at DumbLittleMan 69. Exercise Your Mind Not Just Your Body We all know the benefits of exercising the body but exercisingthe mind by doing crosswords, maths puzzles, playing chess,reading, anagrams, sudoku etc, all help to increase the mindscapacity for learning. 70. Read Philosophy the beauty of philosophy is that there is no right and wrong.However, reading different philosophers views about theworld will stimulate your mind.Read this post by Tim Ferris 71. Ditch The Credit Card We have forgotten how to wait for the things we want in life,if we see something we like we want it now and using a creditcard is too easy. Make the object of your desire moreprecious by saving up for it. This will discipline your mind aswell as your money spending habits. 72. Watch A Motivational Video On Youtube First Thing InThe Morning This is a great way to start the day. Just type in motivationalinto youtube search box, sort by view count and watch a fewvideos. 73. Keep Up To Date With New Theories Whatever field you are interested in keep up to date withnew theories and discoveries. New theories in psychology areespecially interesting albeit quite thin on the ground. 74. Take One Action Toward Your Goals Every Day Your Self confidence, self esteem, and goals can only bereached by taking action. The more action you take the moreyour mind will help you to keep going. 75. Never Let Your Mind Go Out Of Fashion Keep up to date with the latest research on health, beautyand intelligence. Only those whose thoughts keep searchingwill stay intelligent for life. 76. Confronting Your Stressors Whatever you are stressed about the most tackle first. Theless stress you have the less your mind has to cope with.Tackle the biggest stressors first and work your way down.Read this post by Jonathan Wells 77. Drink Coffee And Tea Despite evidence to the contrary coffee and tea have beenshown to help the brain. Antioxidants and/or caffeine mayhelp fight the onset of Alzheimers by 30-60% drinking 30cups a day is obviously not good but 3-5 cups per day is okay. 78. Carry Yourself With Confidence

People can tell by the way you walk if you areconfidentornot. Walk with purpose and have a purpose to walk.Read thispost by Brandon Lindell 79. Make Up Your Own Mind When reading or listening to the news, do your own researchand make up your own mind. The government and largecorporations, whether deliberate or not, is a propagandamachine feeding you information to manipulate yourthinking. 80. Take Up Yoga

This is meant to be one of the best ways to relive stress andexercise both mind and body.watch this video to get youstarted 81. Change Your Hands Practice doing this with your less dominant hand. If you areright handed start doing things with your left hand and viceversa. If you are ambidextrous, start doing it with your feet 82. Eat Plenty Of Fish There is an abundance on new evidence that eating fish isgreat for our brains and keeping them healthy. 83. Reduce Your Alcohol Intake I had to say this, I am an addiction worker. Dont cut it out just reduce it to the recommended safe level. 84. Quit The Smoking Yep it can be one of the hardest drugs to give up but it isworth it. I feel so much better for giving up smoking and havea lot more energy than normal and my mind can function alot better. 85. Practice Deep Breathing Getting plenty of oxygen to your brain is key for a healthymind, deep breathing can help with this. 86. Get A Dog/Cat If you live alone why not go to one of the pet rescue centresand get a dog or a cat. People who have pets are shown to beless lonely, more active, and show fewer signs of stress.readthis article by elizabeth Scott 87. Break your Pattern If you are the one who always goes shopping swap theroutine with your partner. Or if you always go to a particularstore, change it and go to the same store in another area. Doanything to break the patterns you have in life. This way yourmind is kept more active. 88. Try New Food We have trained our palettes over the years and have gottenused to eating certain foods day in and day out. Try newfoods and train your palette to eat better foods. 89. Stimulate Your Brain By Going To A Concert Whether it be a rock concert or am orchestral concert,getting out and hearing music live and being with people whoenjoy the same music stimulates your mind and youremotions. 90. Join An Internet Group Join an internet discussion group to further your educationon topics of interest. Want to start a business? join a groupand get ideas for best practice. Want to know more abouttropical fish? join a group. This educates your mind, gives youideas and lets you meet people who are interested in thesame topics as you. 91. Volunteer To Help Others Volunteering is a great way to give back to the communityand help others learn the skills you have. Even if you dontthink you have skills you can still help someone out in yourcommunity just by talking or doing their shopping for 1 hourper week. 92. Read The Tao Te Ching Has to be one of the best books, in my opinion, fordeveloping your mind.read this blog byNaoto Matsumoto 93. Practice Patience Waiting in queues, traffic jams, on a telephone call can bevery frustrating sometimes. If you use the time to developyour mind and focus on your goals your frustration willdissipate very quickly. Use free time like this constructivelyinstead of getting angry and putting yourself in a bad mood. 94. Practice Divergent Thinking This is the practice of looking for multiple solutions toproblems or issues that arise in your life, whether they be athome or at work. Dont judge your solutions just put themdown on paper until you cant think of any other ways. getothers involved in this as well.Read this article on divergentthinking 95. Put On A New Hat Edward De Bono wrote a book called Six Thinking Hats inwhich he proposed you to put on a different, mental, hat foreach area of your life. For example you put on your parenthat when talking to your kids, you can also put on your childhat for playing around with your kids. mentally putting ondifferent hats allows you to better go in and out of differentroles in your life. 96. Stop trying To Multitask Multitasking cant be done except with unconsciousprocesses such as walking and talking. If you try toconsciously multitask like make the kids lunches, have atelephone conversation and try and get the kids ready forschool it cant be done nearly as effectively as doing each taskseparately. Multitasking stresses out minds and helps toproduce bad results.read this article by Dave Crenshaw

97. Write A Short Essay On The Books Your Read Doing this will keep your mind active and helps your to readin a different way as you are analyzing books instead of justreading. this way you retain more information and in a fewyears time you dont embarrass yourself by saying yeah, thatwas a great book but I cant remember what it was about. 98. Allocate Time For Worrying If you are a recovering worrier and you need some help,allocate a certain time each day to worry about everything.Once youve done the time of worry, leave it until the nextday. 99. Stop Faffing And Just Do It Faffing is the art of doing small things to avoid completing abigger task. I am constantly getting on at my son and sayingStop faffing!. We spend too much time faffing instead onconcentrating on the task at hand. 100. Read The Dictionary Learning a new word every 2 -3 days will increase yourvocabulary by 120 170 words per year.

101. Always Over deliver On Your Promises If you say youre going to do something, dont just do it andget the job complete, make sure you over deliver oneverything you do.