Ten ways to become a better person

1. Pack your lunch: Instead of spending $ 10 on a sandwich that you don't really enjoy, bring your lunch from home - you'll save money (which can then be spent guilt-free on martinis in the week.) ), you will hopefully have a healthier diet and use up leftovers instead of letting them rot in the refrigerator.

2. Call your mom for no reason: It's easy to go days and weeks without calling home because we're all busy with work, but make it your business not to call your mom for any other reason than just saying, "Hello, what's new?" It will literally fill your heart with joy.

3. Volunteering: go to a soup kitchen, read to the elderly in a nursing home, or just donate your old winter coat to a clothing collection ... there are so many easy ways to make a big impact on someone's life. And of course, if you have spoken selfishly, if you do good to others, you will also feel good.

Tip 4, even if your order was a mess: Everyone, even the most amazingly cheerful people, has a day off. If your Starbucks barista accidentally makes your skinny chai venti latte with whole milk, tip her anyway - she didn't do it on purpose.

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5. Overcome your resentment: Still mad at your ex-girlfriend Camille for ruining your favorite skirt? Get over it, chick. There is very little in life to really argue about and when you have a good friendship worth saving, try to forget what pissed you off first. Make plans to meet up, catch up, and finally crush the bitterness that is left. Hell, pay for that round of martinis while you're at it with the money you saved packing your lunch.

6. Call an old friend: Speaking of friendships, instead of going home after work and immediately turning on Gossip Girl, set up your DVR and pick up the phone instead - call a friend you've been with Have not spoken for a long time during and catch up on the other's life. As adults, we often allow physical distance to create emotional distance, but thanks to technology, that's not inevitable as long as we don't let laziness get in the way. I'm actually going to visit my childhood best friend this weekend!

7. Bake cookies for your colleagues: My favorite part of baking cookies? Eating the raw dough. My second favorite part? Bring the finished product to share with my colleagues. I'm in the mood for Santa Claus.

8. Finish Your Book: We all have that one book we've been trying for the ages, but something - the "Twilight" series, new episodes from "The Hills," Perez Hilton - keeps getting it off. Finish it. Edward Cullen, Lauren Conrad and the Queen of All Media await when you finish the final chapter of War & Peace.

9. Get up 30 minutes early and make breakfast: it's the most important meal of the day and something tells me 90 percent of us skip it! Set your alarm half an hour earlier, force yourself out of bed, and make yourself breakfast. Eat it, have coffee, and read a bit of the newspaper before going to the office. I'm pretty sure that combination will make you a smarter person too.

10. Learn something new: instead of reading just the sections of the newspaper that always interest you, turn to a section that you normally toss in the trash and read something unfamiliar; DVR "The Rachel Maddow Show" for once and see what all the hype is about; With the job that is the opposite of you, ask your friend to explain exactly what he or she is doing. In other words, get out of your own little bubble.