Thursday, March 4, 2021

How To Improve Happiness & Feel Satisfied With Your Life

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Being happy doesn’t always come easy. You may find yourself struggling to focus on the positives and live your best life. However, be glad to know that it’s never too late to make changes that will boost your happiness and help you feel more satisfied with your life overall.

It’s all about what you choose to do or not do each day. Life’s all about choices and you must be making moves that are healthy and contributing to improving your lifestyle if you want to succeed. The following advice will put you on the right track to improving yourself and your life and finding more happiness.

Find Ways to Reduce & Manage Stress

One way to improve your happiness and feel more satisfied with your life is to find ways to reduce and manage stress. Stress relief is essential to you functioning optimally and not letting your feelings and emotions get the best of you. You must find strategies and activities that put you and your mind at ease and allow you to decompress in a healthy manner.

Get Your Finances in Order

You can improve your happiness and feel more satisfied with your life when you take the time to get your finances in order. Having money troubles is stressful and overwhelming. Figure out what you need to do to live within your means and bring in a stable income. If you’ve been struggling with this, you may want to dive deeper into the concept of Visualization and why it may not be the answer when it comes to getting back on track financially. It is ultimately up to you to make changes that will bring about positive results to your financial situation.

Do More of What You Love

You can live your best life and be happy when you’re doing what you love. Say no to people and events that you don’t find rewarding or beneficial. Stick to doing what puts a smile on your face and makes you feel alive. Schedule your days according to what motivates you and gets you out of bed. Let passion guide you to feeling more satisfied with your life.

Practice Gratitude

Another way to boost your happiness and life satisfaction is to practice gratitude. You may be feeling low or down because you’re focusing on what you don’t have or what is lacking in your life. Instead, concentrate on all the positives and what you do have, and how many blessings you’ve been given. It’ll alter your entire outlook on life for the better.

Forgive & Let go

Finally, you must learn to forgive and let go if you want to be happy. Holding onto grudges is only hurting you and keeping you from moving forward. You can feel more satisfied with your life when you’re focusing on yourself and what you need to do to become a better version of yourself. Release the control others have over you and your happiness and put more effort into doing what brings you joy and let any toxicity you’re holding onto go once and for all. 


15 comments:

  1. All excellent advice. Life is so precious and I enjoy every single day.

    Have a fabulous day and weekend, my friend. Big hug. ♥

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  2. You’re definitely right,we all need that happy place in life but it not easy to get there’good thing there hope and beautiful life!

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  3. this is very timely as people are struggling with the lack of routine,loneliness and conflicting advice. thank you!

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  4. All great advice. I utilize my daily gratitude practice for this. So beneficial to focus on all the positive things you have in life.

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  5. People who choose happiness are healthier than those who choose unhappiness. Misery attracts negativity and negativity will manifest in your body and create health issues.

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  6. Forgive and let go is a good one. Life is too short to carry grudges.

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  7. I’m working on it. I can’t blog about work. Someone reads it. There’s a few things I struggle with. The head of the adult tech classes - marketing director was who trained me. She’s like a switch. Super helpful, or downright bossy. It’s like she’s waiting for me to fail. I shared photos that incorporated their tech lines, which took them a step farther than just pictures. She hit the reply all, and said we didn’t have time for more - “to dos”. I’ve never worked in spread sheets, am not a technical writer, and she took away my writing for the stem website. Im ok with this, except that I was never talked to about this. I’m all about, we all have strengths, utilize people for them. She could have done the writing they want, and I should have done the pictures. Or just give me a few examples of what they wanted writing wise, and I would have done that.

    I’m the head of the youth programs - marketing. My boss told me to work on the pictures for the website in secret. She got the approval for I’m the president. Great, but I’m an open book and hate secrets! I’m working on an ebook for the youth programs. The other marketing person wanted me to work on it, but got upset I took out some of her writing. She told me to edit it down. Then she wanted me to lead it still. I don’t get her! I wanted to design the ebook, but they signed a contract with a design firm to do it before I came on. The youth programs want the ability to edit this book. So I’m going to design it on my own time -Another thing the other marketing director isn’t happy about. She’s a yes mam person. I’m a seeker, so we bump heads.

    It’s stressful! I like their mission, love working on design pieces, but hate the fact that I can’t get ahold of people, secrecy, the fact that they use spread sheets for EVERYTHING, how they are willing to settle for less with creativity, and not very much communication.

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    1. I'm sorry it's not a perfect fit yet. I hope it will be soon... And if not there's no shame to keep looking far better fit for you. Stress on the job can be a nightmare. Plus, it's not very professional of them to ask you to keep secrets.

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  8. Such great advice! I always feel that happiness is quite subjective! We need to practice gratitude always 🙂

    Thanks,
    Everything Enchanting

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  9. Thank you for these great reminders and tips for what makes you happier. I believe so strongly in two of the aspects you mentioned, gratitude and doing more of what makes you happier, that I focused more on them and actually realized I started feeling happier. Over this chaotic and challenging year, I also started a dedicated meditation schedule with friends online, which hit your point of finding ways to de-stress. I think the financial stability is the one that can get easily overlooked when talking about happiness; so I'm glad you mentioned that, too.

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  10. Just a few simple steps yet so impactful. Great tips...in the long term these will all benefit your mental health. Thanks for sharing!

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  11. Awesome steps but I have to admit some of these steps require a lot of efforts, but worth it for sure...

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  12. 2020 was hard for us. Jason had a mental breakdown (as you know) and it took a lot of soul searching for him to figure out what he needed to do to be a little happier in life. A lot of what you have listed above are things we had to work on to get to a stable place for him mentally. He did make the decision to step down from his top management position so he could work part-time, with the intentions that he'll permanently remove himself from the company by the end of this year (when he knows that the owner has found sufficient help and has time to train them properly to cover the duties he will be leaving behind). Most of his unhappiness stems from working for a company that no longer motivates or fulfills him. Our next step will be getting our finances in order. It's going to be a big blow to lose his income (he's already cut his salary by more than half by stepping down), but once we get on a tight budget and learn to work within those lesser means, I think everything will fall into place and we can move ahead and look forward to a brighter future.

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    1. I hope all goes well with the transition. Sometimes a move is all that's needed to regroup. It's wonderful that you are both so supportive of one another.

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  13. Some are easier said than done. Can't follow your passion or do what makes you happy or some other platitude if you don't have a paycheck to survive.

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