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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Below are some tips for you to cheer up your life:
1. Make happiness a priority.
If happiness is not at the top of your list then other things will take precedence. If other things take precedence, they may well interfere with your efforts to feel good.
2. Make plans to be happy and set happy goals.
Just like in any other life domain, the successful pursuit of happiness requires planning. A planning also requires effective goal setting. And don?t forget to make sure your goals are SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and timed).
3. Do things that make you happy.
Although this sounds obvious, many people simply forget to do things from which they gain pleasure. And do them as often as possible.
4. Set yourself tasks from which you?ll gain satisfaction.
As well as pleasure and enjoyment, satisfaction is also an important part of happiness. So make sure that when you?re planning your tasks and activities you include things that might not be fun, but from which you?ll gain a sense of achievement.
5. Identify where your strengths lie and utilize your strengths.
Know where your faults and weaknesses are to avoid problems. Know where your strengths lie to be really happy and to succeed in life.
6. Be grateful and appreciate what you have.
We all have many choices in life one of which is whether to focus on all the things we don?t have (of which there might be many), or to focus on all the things we do have. There?s no doubt, that gratitude and appreciation will significantly increase your chances of experiencing happiness.
7. Learn to like and ideally to love yourself.
We must love before we can be loved. To love others and to be loved by others is a key component of happiness.
8. Invest time and energy in to your key relationships.
Happy people spend more time working on and in their relationships. Happy people tend to be more supportive of other people in their life. Happy people are more generous and altruistic.
9. Weed out unhelpful thoughts and plant happier, optimistic thoughts.
Learn first to identify your thoughts and then begin to challenge those that are negative and unhelpful and then develop more positive, optimistic ones. This is essentially a skill, and like any other skill becomes easier and more effective with practice.
10. Live a healthy life.
Eat well and keep active. Exercise regularly. Although not impossible, it?s difficult to be happy if you?re constantly sick and not very healthy.
Last but not least: Make happiness an integral part of your life.
Develop happiness routines and make them a part of your everyday living. Remind yourself however you can to do what you need to do and reward yourself as often as possible for doing what you?ve done.
Adapted and edited for FYCD from: http://www.thehappinessinstitute.com
Adapted and edited for FYCD from: http://www.thehappinessinstitute.com
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