I know, I know, it’s a fast-moving world. But that does not mean we have to respond quickly to everything. Learn to say “I’ll let you know later”, “I’ll get back to you on this”, and other similar phrases.

1. Delay Your Reactions

Every day, pick a small task you don’t want to do then go ahead and complete it. From washing the dishes to making your bed and from going for a run to making dinner instead of ordering food. It can be anything.Once you’ve spent a few days completing small tasks, make the jump to bigger ones.

2. Push Yourself to Complete a Task When You Don’t Feel Like It

So instead of deleting the apps from my phone, I’ve decided that I’m not going to use them on Sundays. And so I did. After four weeks, I’ve drastically reduced my screen time and even set a 1-hour limit for social apps.Use Google to schedule usage limits for weekdays and weekends.

3. Spend a Day Away From Social Media

Write down a to-do list and check your calendar to see if you scheduled any meetings or calls. Do anything you can to make the next day easier.If you have a plan, you get things done faster. There’s no magic involved, it’s pure logic.

4. Prepare Your Next Day the Night Before

Having lunch or dinner shouldn’t take more than 10–15 minutes. So when did we become so busy that we don’t even have 10 minutes to spare to fuel our bodies?

5. Eat Mindfully

<a href="https://francescocirillo.com/pages/pomodoro-technique">The Pomodoro Technique </a>might as well be called the Bible of Productivity. It got so famous because it works so it does deserve all the praise. Out of all the micro-habits I mention here, this one has helped me the most.

6 Use a Timer for Your Tasks

If you keep your phone next to you when you sleep, you’ll just keep hitting the snooze button until it’s almost too late to get out of bed. But for most of us, the hard part is standing up, not waking up. And this is why this method works.

7. Place Your Phone on the Opposite Side of the Room

For the past few years, I’ve been applying two rules before buying anything. First, if I see something I like, I never buy it on the spot — unless it’s something I need and have been looking for. Instead, I wait for a few days to see if it’s still going to be on my mind.If after three days I still dream about a dress or some shoes, I go ahead and buy them. If I completely forget about them, then I just dodged a bullet because it was probably just compulsive shopping.

8. Set a Spending Waiting Period

“It’s ok, I’ll remember it” should go down in history as the biggest lie we tell ourselves. Out of all the things you pick up during the day, you end up forgetting more than half of it.So make a habit of writing everything down, even the silly stuff that seem unimportant.

9. Write Down Every Idea

To reach your goals, you need a system. You have to build good habits and stick around long enough to let them do their magic. So here are 9 micro-habits that can drastically improve your life.

9 Micro-Habits That Will Completely Change Your Life in a Year

Rohan Roy