Improve without doing anything chess reated

I've noticed that there's plenty of real-life/external factors which affect my chess skill.

They're mostly obvious, but maybe we can compile a list of external methods to improve at chess that can help us beginners:

1 Tiredness ruins skill.  Don't play when tired.  Lack of sleep hinders learning.  Get adequate rest.  Rather than playing that extra hour on your phone at night, go to sleep.

2 Don't get emotional about games.  If you blunder, don't tilt.  If you win, don't think you're a master.  If you lose, it doesn't matter.  At novice levels winning and losing is irrelevant - the aim is to play well, blunder less, and learn.  Losses are likely more important for this than wins.  

3 Physical state impacts cognitive performance.  If you're hungry, drunk, stressed, or ill you will think worse.  Cognitive function is improved with overall health.  Good diet and good lifestyle help your brain, and chess needs your brain.

4 Environment affects gameplay.  Distractions from friends, multi-tasking, dual screening, loud sounds and music, bad lighting, all can lead to a stupid mistake.  And one mistake can cost you the whole game.

5 The technology can act against you.  Is your board and piece theme online such that you can't easily read the board, or mistake a bishop for a pawn, or find it hard to scan for patterns?  Change your settings to make gameplay easy.

Absolutely right.

The real problem is that a normal person ( working, studying, having other persons to take care, etc.) hardly finds the time to play chess in ideal conditions. So, if he wants to play, he has to play when he is tired, stressed, worried, distracted by other things... otherwise hi risks never playing !...

There is not much to do, to improve at chess you need to have a lot of free time and few thoughts on your mind... 

Absolutely true.  This is one good reason why it's often much easier to learn a difficult skill when young - adults have so little quality time to dedicate to developing a new skill.

I guess all one can do is make the changes that are possible.

The list is all good, but I don’t think it can be called improving. You just play your best in ideal conditions, having slept and eaten well etc., but you have not really improved as a player.

The only way to improve is to play, study etc. And then at some point, even when you are tired and stressed and hungry, you will play better than you do right now while you have slept well and eaten well and so on.

True.  It would better phrased as 'play better' than 'improve'

All of these are good advice

Have seen a few forum posts re. the benefits of various pharmaceutical/similar mental stimulants. Probably fits (or not) on your list somewhere.

I am amazed by the tips you just shared and your blog is quite fascinating

Sure.  Add a numbered entry 

Thanks.  But I don't have a blog ?

6) play longer games so you can think longer

and in general, think for more time so you wont make mistakes

i think this fits into the general idea of the op

I often notice myself improving at chess after taking a lengthy break from the game. It seems counter-intuitive, but it works for me.

I think that's an interesting phenomena that I've noticed with other things too.  A break can often be useful, though it's odd to think why it works.  But since it usually does, we can add that we shouldn't feel guilty about taking a break or stepping back from chess practice and play when needed as it will often do good for our game.

Where did the Arabs go?

6. Improve upon needed chess skills such as concentration by well playing concentration with a deck of cards use jokers too. Keep score as to how many you get correct, set a time limit for each move and the entire game, can use chess clock for this, set it up in a square like a chess board and do not get up until done. Try to improve upon score and time.