Do you need a boost to experience greater happiness in life? Do you feel unhappy and unfulfilled despite all the goals that you have achieved? We know that happiness is by choice and not by chance because you deserve to be happy and you can experience happiness anytime you want.
Below are 5 practical strategies that will help you to achieve greater happiness in life.
1) Nourish Your Mind And Educate Yourself Everyday We live in a knowledge-based economy where our mind is our greatest asset.
Therefore, you should feed your mind with new knowledge, strategies and ideas that will inspire and makes you intellectually more powerful.
Read books and magazine, attend seminars or webinars on the internet to stimulate your brain, improve self-esteem, confidence and competency.
2) Check-in with your heart and soul Consistently If you have the knowledge and skills to achieve your goals but you feel unfulfilled and unhappy despite all the achievements, it may means that your soul has lacked the nourishment it needs.
Allocate a reflection time everyday, check-in with your thoughts, emotions, your values and principles to make sure that they are constantly aligned with what you are doing in life.
3) Practice The Attitude Of Gratitude Researched has shown that gratitude is one of the most powerful positive emotions of all.
When you express gratitude, you let go yourself from being hurt, you focus on what you have now and you learn to take ownership of your own life.
When you do, you will experience greater sense of fulfilment and happiness.
Grab a pen and write down a list of 5 things that you are grateful for every night before going to bed.
You direct your thoughts into positive state of mind and you will experience peaceful sleep and wake in joy tomorrow.
4) Boost your physical health I couldn't emphasize this enough.
When you are happy, you suffer less stress and all kinds of physical and mental illnesses.
This is what exercise can do for you, it makes you feel good and happy when your brain releases hormones such as dopamine and serotonin while you are sweating and working out.
Practise regular exercise or join group fitness classes from 30 minutes to 1 hour whereby 2-3 times a week is good enough.
5) Learn to manage and leverage your time well Time management is life management.
When you learn how to prioritize, organize and simplify your life, you experience greater happiness and fulfilment in life.
Decide what is important to you in life, do things that only align with your vision and your goal.
Learn to delegate, revamp your to-do list, take it one-step at a time to prevent yourself from burning out.