The most important aspect of our life is ‘joy’. Scientific evidences show that being happy has major benefits on your heart and mind. When you are happy, you instantly boost your immune system, combat stress, make your heart healthier and reduce your stress and pain. In fact, you’re making whole of your lifestyle healthier by making yourself happy. Young people need to consider creating their own path of happiness and keep their worries aside.
If you want to stay happy today and every day, here are the simplest things you can do to make yourself happy within minutes:
1. Start doing things that you love:
Doing what you love will bring out the best in you. If you do what you love, you will live a happier life, have greater productivity, become well benefited and have better health. 'The only way to achieve great work is to love what you do!'
2. Believe that today will be your best day:
Happiness starts with believing that best will happen to you. If you have negative thoughts in mind when you start your day, it is certain that you will have problems. So make your mindset positive and eliminate all negative thoughts as you begin each day.
3. Be Happy about what you have achieved so far in your life:
We all have plenty of achievements in our lives. Your life today is so much better than it was yesterday. Whenever you feel upset, list the challenges you have faced and the milestones you have achieved. Expressing gratitude will make you feel on top of the world and forget all your sorrows!
4. Exercise to boost up your mood and your health:
The best way to feel happy and fit is to exercise. Exercising helps you achieve peace of mind, changes your mood and makes you a lot more active. Exercising increases endorphins, dopamine, adrenaline, and endocannabinoid - these hormones make you feel happy, reduce stress, reduce pain and make you feel confident. Fit people are happier people!
5. Stop worrying and start focusing:
Whatever is meant to happen, will surely happen whether you want it or not! So don’t waste your precious time worrying about things you can’t change.
Instead, focus on things that you want to improve in your life and start enjoying life as it is!
6. Believe that the best is yet to come:
Have a positive and optimistic thought about your future. Whenever you are caught up in a bad situation, always remember 'Your present situation is not your final destination'. Having positive thoughts does not only make you happier, but also increases your performance by boosting your confidence and efficiency.
7. Get rid of toxic people in your life:
There might be some people around you who might just be trying to put you down or trying to make you feel insulted. There is no reason of being with people who are unkind. Toxic friends are dangerous because they pretend to be your friends but they'll try their best to mislead you.
So try to avoid such dangerous imposters.
8. Stop listening to others:
When you are listening to others and following their plans and rules, you are not walking your own path. You're bound by limitations. You must stop listening to others and have your own vision about your life. Listening to yourself will set you free and this feeling of freedom will make you happy.
9. Eradicate negative thinking:
Sometimes we fall prey to thinking negative even in good circumstances without even realizing that it is a negative thought. Negative thoughts can can hinder your progress and make you feel distressed. Focus on eliminating negative thoughts and focus on being positive in every possible situation.
10. Meditate:
Meditation is very important to our body as it improves attention and focus. It also helps to keep our mind calm. Meditation clears all the negative feelings that might be existing in your mind and also calms you down. It makes you feel happier and cheerful.
11. Surround yourself with positive people:
Make friends who force you to level up rather than having many friends who leave you alone in negative state of mind. Have limited friends whom you can count on even in the saddest moments of your life.
12. Move on in life:
Whenever you feel stuck in deep trouble, get up and move on. Moving on will create a sense of freedom and make you feel happier and comfortable than you were before. You will be able to handle tough situations easily as you move on.
13. Stop Comparing yourself to others:
It is not a good idea to compare yourself with others because everyone is on their own journey. Don't worry about what other people do. Instead, compare yourself today to what you were yesterday. This will make you progress even more in life.
14. Believe that you have the power to change your life:
Have your mind open to the possibility of change. You are the only one who can change your life. Having positive attitude helps to keep your problems at bay making them seem simpler. Positivity in thoughts makes the impossible possible.
15. Be Bold, Leave your Comfort zone:
Keep trying something new rather than always being in your comfort zone and doing the same old things. Change makes you stronger and brings out the ‘New You’. So be willing to take risks and challenges!
Conclusion
Youth today is very sad and distressed as they have a lot of problems in life because they go through a transition state from childhood to adulthood. Today's youth needs to follow these simple steps in order to stay happy in their life.
If you want to be happy, treat yourself above everything else and accept yourself as you are. Being happy is your choice but life is the biggest gift of God, live it happily.
Be happy and enjoy every moment in your life because "Happiness is the secret to all beauty, there is no beauty without happiness!"