You only live once, try to do your best. Everyone has a different life and improving life is a different thing for everyone. Anyone can improve their life if they always think positively, have goals, and are willing to try to achieve their desires.
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Part 1 of 3: Feeling Happy
Step 1. Appreciate what you have
Home, clean water, loving family, friends, and food are things that we often ignore, even though many people don't get to enjoy them. Therefore, remind yourself to always be grateful. Be proud of your success and thank people for their help and support.
- Write down all the things you are grateful for.
- Show concern for the people you care about so they feel loved and can strengthen the relationship.
Step 2. Get together with family and friends as often as possible
Humans are social creatures and support each other by sharing positive energy. Meet fun friends and family members and make this activity a priority. Have a chat with them or go shopping on the weekends. Visit your grandma for Sunday lunch together. Spending time together makes them and yourself happy.
Step 3. Create a schedule for relaxation
Take time to pay attention to yourself a few hours a week while enjoying solitude. Don't use this moment to reflect on life or think about problems. You just need to stay away from work and stress. Do activities you enjoy, such as walking, biking, enjoying your favorite song, or reading a book. Feeling happy and confident is the first step to becoming a happier person in every situation.
Step 4. Find the positive in bad situations
Life is not perfect and there are always obstacles along the way. Don't think that you can handle a bad situation or difficult time by ignoring it because this is not the way to solve the problem. Instead, try to identify your abilities and find the positive side of negative experiences, if possible. Try to rebuild your life, learn from your mistakes, and move on because you are still alive, there are still people who love you, and you can still be yourself.
Step 5. Help others
There's no better feeling than being able to positively influence someone's life. Kindness has been shown to make you happier, whether it's through small things (helping an elderly person cross the street or carrying her bag) or doing big things (teaching someone or volunteering on the weekends).
Step 6. Get in the habit of eating healthy foods and exercising
When you exercise, your body produces endorphins that make you feel happy and improve your performance in various aspects of your life. Healthy food is also an important factor in improving yourself because you will get good nutrition (vitamins and minerals) that are beneficial for improving health. Watch your body for your mind to thank you.
Step 7. Be happy with yourself
Good things will happen if you love yourself. Know that you are precious and use the power of positive thoughts to bring happiness into your life. Confidence enables you to attract the same people. Everyone, from your boss to your partner, will feel the positive energy you have.
Part 2 of 3: Fixing the Future
Step 1. Do what you love
Work should be able to show who you are, not just a routine task that you are forced to do every day. While sometimes it's hard to find a job you really like, that doesn't mean you shouldn't have to work. Use the following message as a guide if you want to live a better life: “You only live once. So, fill your life by doing the things you love.”
- Write down your favorite activities.
- What is most important in your life? Friends, family, happiness, or a good job? Make a plan about these important things.
- When people are trying to "just survive," all of this is easier for you to have by making long-term plans.
Step 2. Specify what you want to change or improve
Make a concrete plan that can be realized and make a commitment to achieve it. This plan will become a goal you must achieve and improving your life will become a possible adventure, not just a series of obscure and confusing activities.
You can set goals big (running your own company) or small (exercise every day), but make sure you know what you want to change before you start making changes
Step 3. List the steps you would like to take to make this goal a reality
After setting goals, try to achieve them one by one. Make a list of the things you must do to make your dreams come true. For example, if you want to be a TV show scriptwriter, you'll need to:
- Learn about script writing.
- Write and edit the first script.
- Submit a script to take part in a match or join a group.
- Move to a big city to study this field.
- Keep writing new scripts so that someone gets selected.
Step 4. Don't stop learning
Learning is the only way to get better. Learn new things yourself every day. Ask humbly when seeking advice or guidance from friends and experts so that you can develop personally and professionally. Read/listen to the news every day. Reading books. Learn new words. Anything that makes you smarter by the day is something to be proud of.
- People who work happily benefit from continuing education because work makes them more insightful and wiser.
- If you want to develop a career, but can't stop working, take evening school or online courses.
- Be a person who prefers to listen than talk. You will be surprised because people will also be nice to you.
Step 5. Work more than you get paid
Do what you want, not just do the current job. You will be immediately promoted if your boss sees that you really want to learn. Do your best in any given job or task and help co-workers when they need support. In the end, someone will know if you always show a positive will to work hard.
Step 6. Be patient and respect the process, not the end goal
Creating a happy and prosperous future always takes time. Based on expert estimates, it takes a person 10,000 hours to master a certain subject well. This means, you have to work hard to achieve the future you dream of. Efforts to achieve it will not feel burdensome if you really feel happy while working.
- Focus on the goal and the effort required to achieve it.
- Celebrate every time you reach your goal of improving your life.
- Know that there will always be obstacles, but you will get closer to your goal if you can overcome them in a positive way.
Part 3 of 3: Controlling Life
Step 1. Look at your life as if you were someone else on the outside
Observe your life from a neutral point of view without making excuses for bad behavior or over-praising good behavior. As a friend, what advice would you give yourself? What would you like to change? What would be better?
Make a list of pros and cons according to your own opinion. Can you develop or devote more time to the good things and can you eliminate the bad?
Step 2. Learn to say no
Sometimes, what we want or need is not something that is really good for us. Start learning to eliminate things that drain energy, but do not bring positive results. For example, even if you love your boyfriend very much, it's not a good time to go to the movies if you have an exam the next morning. On the other hand, starting to study 2 weeks before a test and ignoring your friends can damage your relationship and stress you out. Remember that you must put your own health and happiness first. No one will blame you for this.
Step 3. Make a schedule, but don't be too busy
Make a daily schedule by making time to do the important things, but don't be so busy that you can no longer do activities outside of your schedule. Having a schedule of activities makes you more goal-directed and still doing the things that are important. For example, if you want to be a good writer, set up a 30-minute writing schedule every day. That way, you can say you're busy if offered a job or other plans. However, having free time makes it easier for you to adjust your plans at the last minute.
Step 4. Remove negative influences from your life
If there are things that make you stressed, worried, or disappointed, remove them from your life. Although not easy, this method is very necessary to improve your life. Find a pattern that has been causing you to be unhappy and work on it. Take time to reflect on relationships, work, and bad habits from time to time.
Step 5. Start the day with energy and action
Get in the habit of getting up early in the morning with enthusiasm. Get up early, prepare breakfast, and clean again after eating. Get in the habit of exercising or practicing yoga for 15-20 minutes, reading the newspaper, and ignoring social media or TV for a while. Starting the day in a meaningful way makes it easier for you to take the right steps to improve your life.
Step 6. Focus on the present, don't dwell on the past or the future
You can't change what happened, so stop trying. Remind yourself every day that all you can do is improve the present moment and make this a priority. In this way, you can form effective smart habits to become a better person over time.
- Meditate every day to focus your mind.
- Use several ways to calm your mind.
Tips
- Focus on the things you can change, not on what you can't change anymore.
- Work towards your goal because you like it, not because you have to.
