232 // 5 Micro-Improvements to Help You Manage Stress

The Mindful Kind

Rachael Kable

Mindfulness, Mindful, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Inspiration

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Hello and welcome to episode 232 of The Mindful Kind podcast.

In this episode, you'll learn five micro-improvements that can help you manage stress. A micro-improvement is a small change you can implement into your life. The idea is to become "just 1% better than yesterday."

Here are the micro-improvements in the episode:

1: Start each day with a mindfulness technique, like placing a hand on your chest and feeling your breath moving in and out of your body

2: Do a regular social media detox

3: Get a dose of natural light

4: Take "personal thinking time" each day to give yourself space to observe and process thoughts and feelings

5: Write down one positive memory from each day

Head over to my blog to read the full article about 15 micro-improvements to help you manage stress: https://www.rachaelkable.com/blog/micro-imporovements-to-manage-stress

Thank you so much for listening and I hope you have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Mindfulkind podcast.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Rachel Cable, author of the Mindfulkind book, Mindfulness Teacher and blogger at
0:12.0	Rachelcable.com.
0:13.8	Each week, this podcast will bring meaningful tips, tools and strategies so you can manage stress
0:19.2	and live more mindfully in the modern world.
0:24.8	Hello and welcome to episode 232 of The Mindful Kind podcast. On this episode I'll be sharing
0:32.0	five micro improvements you can implement into your life to help you manage stress. It can be wonderful to focus on
0:39.3	big goals and meaningful habits, but I think that sometimes, especially during stressful times,
0:45.9	micro improvements can be wonderful because they don't add too much pressure on you to make big changes.
0:52.1	So a micro improvement is really just a small effort you can make to improve
0:56.6	something. It's about asking, what can I do to be just 1% better today than I was yesterday?
1:04.0	In this episode, I'll be talking about micro improvements you can use to manage stress better
1:09.2	or even reduce stress.
1:11.4	So let's dive straight in.
1:13.6	Micro Improvement 1 is to start each day with a mindfulness technique.
1:18.1	If you've been listening to the mindful kind for a while, then you've probably heard me talk
1:22.3	about mindfulness quite a bit.
1:24.3	You might already know some different mindfulness techniques that work well for you
1:28.6	and if that's the case, I suggest you choose one to start each day with. Rather than waking up and
1:35.4	jumping out of bed, feeling rushed and overwhelmed, take an extra minute or two so you can focus
1:41.1	on your chosen mindfulness technique. If you don't know which mindfulness
1:45.5	technique to use or if you're new to listening to this podcast, let me just explain how you could
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