Simply Good Life — My Tombstone Inscription | How to Improve Your Relationship | Hard Things

Hi friends, here is your weekly dose of “Simply Good Life”, a newsletter that tries to make your day a little bit better and help you to grow personally and professionally. Enjoy!

Improve Your Relationship

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.” — Henry David Thoreau

In the article below, you are going to find many simple ways to improve your relationship. The explanation on how to express our needs and how to be clear about what would help are my favorites.

7 Ways to Improve Your Relationship — Without Telling Your Partner | On The Couch | Medium — medium.com

Hard Things

“I think most people are very soft for lack of a better term. They let the first kind of challenge beat them down” — Ed Latimore

A lot of people give up because things are tough, but that’s the point. In order to become stronger, you need to do things that are hard. Once you overcome a hard task, you get the reward of accomplishing it for the rest of your life.

Once you’ve finished years of college, you’re a college graduate for the rest of your life.

Once you’ve finished a marathon, you’re a marathon runner for the rest of your life.

Once you’ve written a book, you’re a book writer for the rest of your life.

Be More Social to Be Happier

Researchers looked at people who scored in the top 10% on happiness surveys. There was one thing they had in common:

They were more social. They spent more time around humans than the average person.

Being around other people seems to be a necessary condition for happiness.

Underwater Photos

You will love this photo series if you like underwater photos. These photos are simply breathtaking!

»Underwater Photographer of the Year«-Wettbewerb: Abtauchen in eine magische Welt — DER SPIEGEL — www.spiegel.de

Quote I Love

Just imagine the 3 words you want on your tombstone — doing so serves as a great guide for how you should live your life.

Believer in others

Have a good Friday, all

Adam