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| Tip 1 Have a positive attitude. One of the most | | | | Tip 11 Go, go and keep going all the way. We all face |
| significant, contributing factors to happiness is optimistic | | | | obstacles and problems at times. Happy people |
| thinking. Although you won't always have a choice in | | | | expect this and adapt to them. All of the components |
| determining what goes on around you, you will always | | | | outlined above are skills that can be learned. Just like |
| have a choice in determining how react to what goes | | | | any other skills, you'll get better at utilizing these |
| on around you. This will largely determine the extent to | | | | strategies with practice and perseverance. Stick at it |
| which you are, or aren't happy. | | | | and happiness will be yours. |
| Tip 2 Make happiness a priority. If happiness is not at | | | | Tip 12 Focus on your strengths, not weaknesses. |
| the top of your list then other things will take your | | | | Work out what you're good at and find ways to do it |
| focus. We become what we think about all day, so | | | | as much as possible. Happiness is not as much about |
| think, positive happy thoughts. It's a choice, moment by | | | | fixing your faults and overcoming your weaknesses |
| moment. | | | | as it is about finding ways to focus your life on and |
| Tip 3 Live your values. Be true to yourself. By living | | | | around your talents and qualities. |
| your life according to your values, you will develop an | | | | Tip 13 Have fun and enjoy humor Take delight in life |
| attitude of true acceptance of yourself. You will realize | | | | and create fun experiencesfor yourself. Don't make |
| that you are fine the way you are. You may choose | | | | life be too heavy! |
| to make some changes in your life simply because | | | | Tip 14 Control what you can control. Cultivate the |
| you realize that you have greater potential than you | | | | feeling that you are in control of your own destiny. |
| have utilized so far. | | | | Happiness can be enhanced by maximizing the control |
| Tip 4 Love Yourself. High self-esteem is crucial for a | | | | you have over your life. So learn and practice skills |
| happy life. Healthy self-esteem means relying on | | | | such as problem solving, time management and |
| what's on the inside, rather than what's happening in | | | | meditation and communication. At the same time, |
| the outside world to make you happy. Self-esteem is | | | | however, no one has complete control and so it is also |
| the core of your power and all else stems from this. | | | | important to be realistic and to accept that over which |
| Tip 5 Set goals for success. Give your mind a positive | | | | you have no control. Accept what youcan't control. |
| goal to focus on. Just like in any other life area, the | | | | And learn to change problems into opportunities for |
| successful pursuit of happiness requires planning. | | | | growth and development. |
| Planning requires effective goal setting. And don't | | | | Tip 15 Invest time and energy in to your key |
| forget to make sure your goals are SMART | | | | relationships. Happy people spend more time working |
| (specific,measurable, achievable, relevant and timed). | | | | on, and in, their relationships. Happy people tend to be |
| Tip 6 Do things that make you happy. Although this | | | | more supportive of other people in their life. |
| sounds obvious, many people simply forget to do | | | | Tip 16 When a problems arises see what you can |
| things from which they gain pleasure. And do them as | | | | learn from itEverything you do and every person you |
| often as possible. | | | | meet, in every situation, presents an opportunity to |
| Tip 7 Live in the present moment. Remember that life | | | | learn, change and grow. Every situation you find |
| is finite. The author, Henry Miller once said "Every | | | | yourself in can be a great opportunity to expand |
| moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to | | | | yourself. There is always something to learn from a |
| recognize it as such. "The only moment in which we | | | | problem. This is the same for problems in a relationship. |
| can truly be happy is the present moment. The only | | | | Look at problems as challenges to learn and grow |
| moment over which we have control is the present | | | | from both for yourselves and your relationship. |
| moment. So be happy now! Because if not now, then | | | | Tip 17 Replace negative self talk with positive self |
| when? | | | | talkThe Dalai Lama has been quoted saying that "The |
| Tip 8 Have a laugh Laughing is one of the quickest | | | | central method for achieving a happier life is to train |
| ways to send our happiness levels soaring. A Stanford | | | | your mind in a daily practice that weakens negative |
| University study showed that one minute of laughter | | | | attitudes and strengthens positive ones." Learn first to |
| equaled 10 minutes on a rowing machine in terms of | | | | identify your negativethoughts and then begin to |
| warding off stress. | | | | challenge those that are negative and unhelpful. |
| Tip 9 Engage in random acts of kindness. Did you | | | | Tip 18 Ensure you get adequate sleep, rest, exercise |
| know that by simply being kind to another person or | | | | and waterListen to your body and what it is telling you. |
| witnessing a kind act boosts your serotonin levels in | | | | You need to take care of yourself and this also |
| you and the other person? It also increases the levels | | | | involves getting plenty of rest, drinking at least 8 |
| in another person witnessing the act. Happy people are | | | | glasses of water each day and relaxation and/or |
| more generous and altruistic. | | | | meditation strategies. Exercise regularly. Exercising |
| Tip 10 Eat your way to happiness. Fuel up on fish: Fish | | | | produces endorphins or "happy" hormones. |
| are high in omega-3s which boost your happiness. Eat | | | | Tip 19 Develop a sense of life purpose. Developing a |
| complex carbohydrates - this means wholegrain bread, | | | | sense of life purpose will also markedly increase your |
| starchy vegetables, beans and pulses, and wholegrain | | | | chances of experiencing true happiness. As well as |
| cereals. MIT scientists say these boost the brain's | | | | working out where you want to get to, make sure you |
| levels of serotonin, which plays a big role in how happy | | | | have a good reason for why you're trying to go there. |
| we feel. Take Tryptophan. Found in turkey, avocados | | | | Tip 20 Be grateful and appreciate what you have. We |
| and bananas, tryptophan promotes the production of | | | | all have many choices in life, one of which is whether |
| serotonin. A study published in the journal Brain, | | | | to focus on all the things we don't have (of which |
| Behavior and Immunity found a lack of tryptophan can | | | | theremight be many), or to focus on all the things we |
| lower your mood levels. Don't forget to take a good | | | | do have. |