Improve Your Life In Just 5 Minutes

It’s all about the little things.

- Emily Abbate

BY NOW, WE’RE BLASTING THROUGH 2019, which means that all of our most cherished goals – to eat better, to lose weight, to get jacked, and to make a better (and healthier) desk lunch – are being put to the test. Research shows that 80 per cent of New Year’s resolutions fail by the second week of February, but if yours have taken a knock, take heart: We’ve got the reserve list ready, in the form of six little habits to restore your momentum. ‘If you think about your everyday life, you’re likely consistent about a lot of things and don’t even realise it,’ says Jason Wersland, D.C., creator of the Theragun. ‘Once you turn something that takes five minutes into a habit, you realise that it’s not as tough as you thought to be a little healthier.’ That isn’t a euphemism, either: Each of these tweaks requires less than five minutes of your time to implement. Feel free to spend the rest of the year thanking us.

1 Take the phone outside the bedroom

So many people attribute the ‘need’ to keep their phone on their bedside table to the fact that it wakes them up in the morning. So let’s dispense with that right now: Go out or go online and grab an alarm clock. For centuries, people managed to get to work on time without the aid of an Instagramenabled device. You can do it, too.