The Positivity Thread
Hello!
I'd like to post on this thread few motivational tips, from the articles that I read. You can share motivations and tips too, and make others happy!
Today Id simply like to share 3 quick tips and habits that help me to live a happier life.
1. Start by setting a low bar for happiness.
When you wake up in the morning tell yourself: Set a low bar for happiness today.
When I tell myself this and try to keep it in mind during the day I appreciate things more.
The food, my work, the weather, the small events of the day becomes not everyday stuff but something
I feel happy to have. The small things or what may be something one takes for granted becomes something
I now often pause for a moment or two to take in and appreciate.
But if I become happier in my everyday life for the smaller things does that mean that I become unmotivated
to keep working towards the bigger things?
Not in my experience.
This way of looking at my life instead fuels me with more energy and inspiration, life becomes lighter and I
feel less inner resistance as I explore and work towards both small and bigger things.
2. Help someone out.
Helping someone out is one of simplest but also one of the most powerful things one can do to live a happy life.
How can you help someone out? By giving them value in some form.
Here are a handful of ideas for how to do that.
Offering some practical help. With for example work or cooking dinner.
Giving some good advice.
Hugs.
Encourage someone.
Just listen.
And remember to pat yourself on the back and appreciate yourself for helping someone out. Do not brush it
off or make it smaller than it is.
Pause and take a moment to quietly reflect on how you did something good.
3. Be kind to yourself.
Being kind to yourself is a very helpful thing for healthy self-esteem and for living a happier life.
Change your input to things that are kind and constructive.
Destructive messages from the people around you or from people further away such as media, advertising
and society in general does not help you to be kind to yourself.
So, bit by bit, replace them with other daily and weekly input.
It could be the encouragement of friends and family.
Or it could be to spend more time in nature and in silence to relax and recharge yourself.
Compare yourself to yourself.
Comparing what you have and your results to what other people have and have accomplished can really
kill your motivation and keep your self-esteem at a low level. There are always people ahead of you.
So focus on you. On what you have accomplished. And on how you can and have improved your results. This
is important because its a great motivator to see how much you have improved and how far you have come.
Give yourself a break.
Life gets in the way sometimes. You may get in your own way. And sometimes you simply dont have the
energy or the courage or the time to do something. And thats OK.
Instead of trying to live up to some perfect image that other people and/or you may press upon you,
choose to set human standards for yourself. Choose to give yourself a break when things dont go as you
may have wished and choose to cut yourself some slack.
(Henrik owns the article, founder of The Positivity Blog)
27 Smart and Simple Ways to Motivate Yourself.
Here are 27 of my favorite tips and habits for doing just that.
1. Just get started and let the motivation catch up with you.
2. Start small if big leads you to procrastinate.
3. Start tiny if a small step still leads you to procrastination.
4. Reduce the daily distractions.
5. Get accountability from the people in your life.
6. Get motivation from the people in your life.
7. Get the motivation from people you dont know.
8. Play music that gives you energy.
9. Find the optimism.
10. Be kind to yourself when you stumble.
11. Be constructive about the failures.
12. Compare yourself to yourself and see how far you have come.
13. Compete in a friendly way.
14. Remind yourself of why you are working toward this.
15. Remind yourself of what youre moving away from.
16. Be grateful for what you got.
17. Mix things up.
18. Declutter your workspace.
19. Reduce your to-do list to just one item.
20. Dont forget about the breaks.
21. Adjust your goal size.
22. Exercise.
23. Take 2 minutes to look back at your successes.
24. Reward yourself and celebrate your successes (no matter how big or small they are).
25. Do a bit of research before you get started.
26. Take a2 minute meditation break.
27. Go out in nature.
15 uplifting quotes for the depressed heart:
1. "Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me." — Susan Polis Schutz
2. "Once you choose hope, anything is possible." — Christopher Reeve
3. "A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl." — Stephan Hoeller
4. "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." — Helen Keller
5. "A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you." — Joyce Meyer
6. "Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it." — Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. "If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something about yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person." — Fred Rogers
8. "What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." — Richard Bach
9. "Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy." — Matt Lucas
10. "Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." — Thich Nhat Hanh
11. "Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light." — Madeleine L'Engle
12. "Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment." — Greenville Kleisser
13. "Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." — Leonard Cohen
14. "There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind." — C. S. Lewis
15. "The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being." — Tenzin Gyatso
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