20 Tips to Change a Person's Life

1. Never allow yourself to complain, even about the weather.
2. Find a tree you like and spend 15 minutes a day watching it grow.
3. When you first wake up in the morning, surrender your day to God.
4. Sit down with a cup of coffee and some paper at the beginning of each week.  By praying and brainstorming with your schedule, answer these questions “What’s the best way to spend my time?  What should my pace be each week?”  Then once you have a good sense of those answers, start adjusting your life accordingly.
5. Modest is hottest.
6. When making a decision, try to take the longview; think years down the road, not minutes.
7. Keep all your prayer requests for yourself and for other people in one place.
8. Establish a Sabbath day for you to rest and guard it like a hawk.
9. Study the Bible systematically all the way through.  If it gets boring, keep reading.  You’ll be so glad you did.
10. Try showering with the lights off.
11. Think of the 10 closest people in your life.  Now think of 3 ways to bless each of those people.  Next spend the next month following through on those blessings, one a day.
12. Don’t buy cheap jeans.
13. Pray big big prayers.
14. At the end of the day, write down your favorite part about that day in a favorite things journal.
15. Fight hard to build deep and rich friendships with your siblings.
16. Befriend the person who is the most different from you.
17. Every time you walk through a doorway, pray.
18. Hold your future with an open hand.  It won’t be what you’re expecting.
19. Stay really really close with your mom.
20. Memorize as much Scripture as humanly possible.