Fitness Tip of The Day Wishing you a fit life
What we need to do is learn how to change our moods quickly and efficiently. To transform an attitude such as boredom, frustration, or disappointment into its positive counterpart takes a few simple behavioral tweaks. It’s not complicated. You just have to take action in small, targeted ways to become happy on the spot. Here are some ways to increase the amount of happiness you experience, and bring more joy, love, and peace into your daily life.
Connect to Your Best Self:
Every day for a week, write down two things you appreciate about yourself. At week’s end, read your list out loud. Sometimes we forget to acknowledge our good points, or we spend too much time berating ourselves for mistakes or flaws. Become aware of self-demeaning chatter inside your head, and interrupt it whenever you do. Substitute a contradiction that affirms your best self, such as, “I’m whole and complete” or, “I do the best I can.”
Be an Unconditional Giver:
Give without wanting or expecting anything in return. Offer to assist a coworker who has too much on his/her plate. Cook a meal for a neighbor who just had surgery. Call a needy friend or elderly relative out of the blue. Give a stranger a compliment. It’s nearly impossible to be in a bad mood when you’re genuinely focusing on and caring for someone else.
Embrace Life the way it is:
It’s normal to have irritations, stressful events, crabby encounters, and all the other experiences during a typical day that put us in bad moods. Life has its ups and downs. The next time your computer crashes, your high heel breaks, and a cup of coffee spills on your lap while the person next to you is screaming at you, just take a breath and say to yourself, “People and things are the way they are, not the way I expect them to be.” Yep, it is that easy. Unrealistic expectations are what make us unhappy. When you can accept that life isn’t always the way you would have planned it, it will instantly change your mood.
It is easy to get happiness caught up in our daily activities; jobs, home life, relationships, that often times we don’t know what parts of our life are generating happiness. We may find that we’re so focused on the outside, that we haven’t made time to reflect inward.
