Happiness refers to the idea of being emotionally satisfied, content, and joyous. The concept of happiness does not come from what you’re experiencing in life though, it happens more from your mind and your thoughts about what you’re experiencing in life. Everyone has challenges in life, but some people can be happier even if it seems like they shouldn’t be.
Get Rid of Clutter
Studies show that clutter around your home, office, and life can affect your mental state and make it harder for you to feel satisfaction about life. The clutter causes you to lose things, be in a hurry, and generally unable to think positively. Start each day by making your bed and always clean up after yourself to get rid of clutter.
Start a Gratitude Journal
Focusing on what is good in your life is a perfect recipe for experiencing more happiness. Your mind will focus on the things you want it to. If you have intrusive thoughts your journal can help you get back to thinking positively which will ensure your happiness.
Set Your Daily Intent
Each morning when you get up, check your schedule, and then set your daily intent to react and act in joy and happiness. An excellent way to do that is to simply think about all the reasons you have to be happy while checking your schedule so that you stick to it. That also makes people happy.
Communicate Clearly
Happy people are good communicators. Learning about how people communicate and the importance of the message sender, ensuring that they explain their thoughts to the other person carefully will help you become a happier person. Most discord is from poor communication.
Smile, Laugh, and Experience Joy Openly
When you smile with your mouth and your eyes even if you’re not feeling it at first, you can cause happy hormones to flood through your body. Sometimes getting up and walking around in nature can bring that genuine smile to your face, as can watching babies laughing on YouTube.
Set Clear Boundaries
Another thing that can invade your happiness is being a “yes” person or a people pleaser. You might think that to be happy, you always must be doing things for others, but you don’t. Take care of yourself first, and then others around your schedule.
Stop Judging People
Most of the time, when you’re judging someone else, you’re really judging yourself. Judgmental people are not just hard on others, they’re hard on themselves. When you’re too hard on yourself and others it’s hard to find satisfaction, which is the key to happiness.
If you want to set up a thriving atmosphere for happiness remember that happiness is all about your thoughts and reactions to what is happening in your life and the world. Regardless of what is going on, you can find ways to be happier if you set up an atmosphere suited for happiness.