Over the past year I haven't really been the happiest of people and I found myself to be in a very negative state of mind. All my thoughts were negative and that caused me to live a negative life, which was definitely not fun for me or the people who knew me. Once I was in this state of mind I found it extremely difficult to come out of it as I got so used to it that it became natural for me to feel this way.
However over the past month or so I realised that this unhappiness had taken over my life enough and that I deserved to be happy just like everyone else. This realisation actually came from stumbling across this video on youtube and in all honestly after watching it my outlook on life completely changed and I slowly started to become a lot happier and more positive about things.
It wasn't just this video that helped me though there have also been 5 tips I've been living by to help me be more happy and I thought I would share them with you;
1. Don't let things bother you that are out of your control ~ it's so easy to let little things get to you but the best way to deal with this is to either accept the fact that it happened because there was nothing you could do about it or to just ignore it completely.
2. Be grateful for everything good that happens to you ~ nowadays it seems to me that everybody takes things for granted whether that be little things like someone holding a door open for you or bigger things like having a place to live. But I've found that being grateful and acknowledging good things that happen to you can make a whole difference in having a good day, month or even year.
3. Make other people happy ~ in my opinion one of the most rewarding things is making other people happy and it's something I try to do everyday if possible. Just knowing you make other people happy can also make you feel a lot better about yourself and it's honestly one of the simplest things to do.
4. Live your life only for yourself ~ the only way you can truly be happy is by doing things you love and that make you a happy person. The best way to do this is not to care about what other people think, although I know this can be very hard to do. But don't stop doing something if somebody else doesn't approve of it because as long as it's making you happy then what other people say shouldn't really matter.
5. Surround yourself with people who make you happy ~ if you have somebody in your life that makes you unhappy the best thing to do is either block that person out of your life or just not involve them in your life as much. Surrounding yourself with people who make you happy will most likely make you a much happier person because there won't be anyone bringing you down.
Are there any things that help you be a happier person?
- Meg♥