QuickWins101

1. Re-vitalising after too much partying: take a long walk in the fresh air.
2. Progressing your Spanish: take up Spanish cookery; start with the Sunday paella.
3. Coping with credit-card bill shock: Take scissors, cut card in half. Eat brown rice for 6 weeks.
4. Making money: save money by working in cash. Only. For all of January 2009.
5. Understanding London: read the history of the London Underground system.
6. Making a great Bolognese sauce. Don’t skip the chicken liver in the authentic recipe.
7. Closing the deal: ring up and ask for the business.
8. Re-building a relationship: write and send a nice long, newsy e-mail.
9. Boosting your creativity: know what the box is, first.
10. Anxiety over job security in 2009: decide to do whatever you do, really well.
11. Great sex: go more slowly.
12. Feeling hung-over: lots of water + lots of sleep.
13. Feeling low: get to the library/book-shop and escape into a stack of great books.
14. Wondering if you should get on Facebook: if you are wondering, then no, you don’t need to.
15. Great sex: go more quickly.
16. Why hasn’t he texted?: send one more text then forget it. Truly.
17. Boosting your memory: write it down 
18. Economical food shopping: write a list. Stick to it.
19. Eating healthily: no deserts at some meals. Decide which.
20. Giving up smoking: don't. Learn to meditate.
21. More profitable business: stop discounting. You're good-they will buy.
22. Easier to remember passwords: essentially the same password, but embed the difference e.g. 123AMAZONcamel.
23. Thwarting muggers: carry a false wallet.
24. Eating less: use a smaller plate.
25. Better relationships with your children: be interested.
26. Better study: always overview the materials.
27. Finding the girl/boy of your dreams: they are already there, you just need to notice them.
28. Creating a new logo: don't. Spend the money improving your service.
29. Better presentations: ensure 10% at least is stories with no PowerPoint.
30. Reducing your food bill: less meat, more lentils.
31. Getting better at drawing: book a class.
32. Getting smarter: ask more questions of more people more often. 
33. Having charisma; be enthusiastic.
34. Getting more from the gym: learn the correct technique.
35. Choosing a present: re-play recent conversations you have had with them for an inspiration.
36. Coping with the Starbucks drinks menu: choose short, two-shot for the perfect ratio.
37. Recession proofing your business: prove you are an investment not a cost.
38. Cooking: get all the basics such as black pepper-corns, to hand.
39. Personal Energy: use your body to get it used to providing energy for you.
40. Becoming a better driver: get SatNav.
41. Reducing fuel bills: wear a jumper.
42. Wondering what Life is all about: stare at the night sky.
43. Writing a best-seller: don’t write what everyone else is doing at the moment, despite that being what your publisher wants.
44. Needing inspiration: read the Apollo 8 moon mission.
45. Get out of bed on time, promptly: use the alarm on your iPod.
46. Getting fewer e-mails: send fewer, far fewer.
47. Protecting your job: become indispensable.
48. Building your own house: sign up for wall-building sessions.
49. Worrying less: help others.
50. Better critical thinking: stop and think.
51. Discovering a new author: amazon.com/co.uk recommendations.
52. Getting actions out of people: state the action you want.
53. Boosting your productivity: 1 place, 1 list of what you have and want to do.
54. Better love: it’s a verb.
55. Better leadership: is a state of mind, not a job title.
56. Even better life: Live it. Wide and deep.
57. Better presenting: rehearse.
58. Running better meetings: why (oh why) are we here?
59. Getting and keeping focus: every 45 minutes, take 5 minutes out.
60. Creating wellness: clear your sleep debt.
61. Parenting well: model the behaviors you seek.
62. Staying motivated; set a clear, simple achievable goal.
63. Learning more easily: question.
64. Having a Happy Christmas: keep it simple. Really simple.
65. Managing stress: walk. A lot more.
66. Writing your book: create a word document entitled chapter 1. Start typing.
67. Being happy: be happy.
68. Better selling: create difference (company times product times you).
69. Getting fit: walk plus take the stairs.
70. Improving your History understanding: take an event you do know. Discover what else was happening in every other field that same year.
71. Eating more healthily: more steam, less fry.
72. Better marketing: create a memorable, repeatable, positive experience.
73. Keeping your house-plants alive: talk to them regularly.
74. Being romantic: simplicity done well.
75. Having superb relationships: more give, less take.
76. Improving your geography: play with Google maps.
77. Making great coffee: fresh beans, freshly ground.
78. Improving customer service: Listen. No, really listen.
79. Getting to the gym regularly: find a buddy with iron self-discipline.
80. Having more time: whenever you add an activity, drop one.
81. Becoming a director of the place where you work: act like one.
82. Easier clothes shopping: wear jeans and T-shirt when you shop.
83. Getting better quality sleep: return the bedroom to a sanctuary.
84. Improving your writing: add detail, especially sensory detail.
85. Having more clothing style: think texture, not just colour.
86. Getting a publisher to consider your book: write a covering letter explaining how it will make them money.
87. Boosting creativity: get out of the office. Go to a museum/art gallery.
88. Changing a negative culture: start at the top.
89. Boosting profitability: price for perception and positioning, not for cost.
90. Writing your non-fiction book: about what do you have passion? Start.
91. Getting the job: explain how you can help them.
92. Time management: forget it: manage your choices.
93. Entertaining your toddler: provide a cardboard box and go with the flow.
94. Enjoying Brussels’ sprouts: don’t. Switch to  another green vegetable.
95. Becoming a drive-time DJ: get a job at the station and wait for one of the DJs to not turn up. Volunteer; they won’t quibble. Do an awesome job.
96. Finding buried treasure: read more pirate maps and sail the Seven Seas.
97. Reading more: watch less TV.
98. Wanting more hugs: give more hugs.
99. Re-connecting and re-grounding: go unplugged and off the grid for a few days.
100. Laughing more: watch silly and/or funny movies.
101. Starting anything you’ve been putting off: remind yourself you’re not that kind of person and start.