A Quick Guide ​for everyday Happiness

This article is not a quick fix for all your problems. It’s meant to demonstrate how you have control over your happiness. And how a change in your approach and your attitude is all you need to gain that control.
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I’m not going to spend any time explaining why I’m asking you to do this. You’ll just have to trust me.

Make every day “thanks-giving”
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We live in a beautiful world, yet we’re so quick to complain about everything that goes wrong. And at the same time have so much to be thankful for, but take it for granted.How often do you stop and think about how good you’ve got it? I bet you stop more to think about what you don’t have rather than what you do, right? A lot of times in life things happen that we have no control over. But we do have control over how we respond.Being more thankful and appreciative of your life will not only make you feel better, but you’ll feel more energised too. The more you practice being thankful the more you’ll notice how great it was in the first place.

Like anything it’ll be more effective if you make it a habit. So keep a diary and aim to write in it twice a day, when you wake up and before you go to bed:
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• Why are you thankful today? E.g. it’s a beautiful day, I’m alive, team won yesterday’s game, etc.
• How has someone helped you recently or in the past? E.g. someone held the lift for me today, partner cooked me a meal, etc.
• How have you helped someone else recently or in the past? E.g. helped a stranger when they were lost, helped partner with housework, etc.
• What are you grateful for in your life? E.g. have loving, supporting family and friends, etc.

Remember your reasons for being thankful don’t have to be big. Be thankful for the little things too. If you start identifying the little things you’ll find there’s a million reasons to be happy.

Whenever the word faith is used these days it’s typically used in a religious context. But the idea of having faith doesn’t have any religious connotations and has been used by many great minds to help them succeed and be happy. So for this exercise when I say have faith there are no religious connotations attached to it, unless you want there to be.

What gets many people down is they can’t see themselves in possession of what they truly desire, whether that’s a loving partner, a better job, wonderful friends or to have children. And because they can’t see it, it gets them down. The modern world has brought us many things, but being able to see into the future isn’t one of them. Yet many people still

You may have heard of the ‘Law of Attraction’ (LoA) – using it helped me get out of one of the darkest periods I ever faced.
If you haven’t, put simply it means, you attract into your life what you constantly think about, and nourish with repetition and emotion. I know how ridiculous it sounds, I shunned it first too. But I’d have saved myself a lot of anguish over many years if I’d just had a little faith.How is the LoA of benefit to your happiness?

• You may have been contributing to your unhappiness with what you continually thought about.
• You can now change that by thinking about what you want to attract into your life.
• You’ll feel better knowing that your life is only going to improve from here.

For the next month think about what you want to attract into your life and try to feel the difference too. And make sure to nourish these thoughts and feelings with repetition. But be careful not to fall into the trap of analysing how it’s possible. The more you analyse, the more you over-analyse. And when you over-analyse you find ways and convince yourself that what you want is not possible.
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I can’t stress this enough, for the LoA to work you have to believe in its power. You have to believe that it works. If you don’t believe it won’t work and you’re wasting your time.

Exercise

There are many reasons why we should all maintain routine exercise, including your happiness.

There is a direct link between physical activity and happiness. Endorphin’s, serotonin and dopamine, which are neurotransmitters that contribute to our happiness, are released when we exercise. The more we exercise the more constantly they’re released.

And the effects of those hormones don’t wear off after exercise either. They stay with you and help elevate your mood when you’re not exercising. The more you maintain, the more these hormones will have a positive effect on your life.

Not exercising can have the exact opposite effect because you won’t have a steady supply of happiness hormones to balance your mood. As a result you’ll feel more irritable, tense, angry, frustrated, not to mention your sleep won’t be as good.

Key takeaways
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1. Only love can defeat hate.
2. Be grateful for what you have and happiness will come to you.
3. You attract into your life what you constantly think about.
4. The LoA is powerful, but to experience the benefits you have to believe in it fully.
5. Exercise consistently to release happiness hormones.