A No-Cost Action That Will Make You Feel 10% Better Immediately

I’m still amazed at the difference it makes

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“The world” teaches us that money is the answer. Earn more. Buy a bigger house. Get a newer car. Build the snazzy extension. Go on the foreign holiday.

Then you’ll be happy.

Of course, often those “things” we build up to mean so much — and we work so hard to afford (often sacrificing work-life balance and mental health along the way) — only deliver a superficial and short-lived “hit”.

All the time there are a whole host of simple, no-cost or low-cost actions available to us that would genuinely bring us joy, but it takes a lack of desire (or ability) to spend, to find them.

For me, there’s one free thing that makes me feel better than anything, and it’s something others would dismiss as a chore. They might even outsource it as “beneath” them (and as another way of displaying their wealth and “success”).

To understand why and how it works so effectively, we need to go back to the early noughties and some pretty low-production-value daytime TV shows…

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