8 steps that can help you enjoy life

Rather than trying to radically change a life, start with small steps that are easy to implement in the usual routine.

1. Program yourself to positive thinking

Feelings strongly influence the thoughts and actions. Therefore, we do not want to do, when we are upset or angry. But negative emotions can not escape. But you can learn how to think positively.

• Keep a journal of gratitude. Every day, write down what you are grateful, and try less worry about what you do not. Thanks makes us happier, increases productivity and positively affects sleep.
• Repeat positive attitudes confirming your progress in the area in which you want to improve.
• Try to surround yourself with positive people. Do not forget that emotions are contagious.
• Be active. When we are failing to act, we begin to wind yourself and worry over trifles. But exercise causes the release of endorphins.

2. Set the alarm half an hour earlier than usual

Many successful people get up early. And although you do not have to be like Tim Cook of Apple, which wakes up at 3:45, try to get up at least half an hour earlier than usual.

So you will have some free time that can be spent on sport, meditation, reading, breakfast with the family, planning the coming day or even work on the fact that you interesting. You no longer have to hurry to run out of the house, feeling that you do not have time and have no control over their lives.

3. Immediately clean up after themselves

How long does it take to fill the bed or wash the dishes for themselves? Five minutes? But for some reason we often leave such things for later. And they accumulate quickly and act on our nerves. Clean up once, you save a lot of headaches. In addition, you provided a surge of productivity.

4. Do not take the back-breaking commitments

We often set ourselves big goals and lose heart in the middle. It is much easier to adhere to the goals and reach them when they are simple and clearly expressed.

Start small. Do not try to run a marathon if you have no training. First, for example, take 10 push-ups and the daily walk. If you want to meditate, perform for at least five minutes of breathing exercises every day.

This also applies to business. Do not try to grow in all directions, perfection in one branch. Do not promise what can not perform.

5. Do not be so predictable

If the day to do a day the same thing, you can get caught up in the routine. So try to get rid of the monotony and predictability in their lives. Get out of your comfort zone at least once a week and do something new, something you have not done before. For example, lunch in another café or go shopping at another store.

New experiences make us happier, help to look at the world differently, and energized.

6. Instead of complaining, I express my gratitude

Be grateful for the good things that happened to you today. This will help you feel better. In addition, the researchers foundCounting Blessings Versus Burdens: An Experimental Investigation of
Gratitude and Subjective Well-Being in Daily Life., what:

• Those who each week wrote in his diary of gratitude, more exercise, and optimistic about the future.
• Daily discussion, for which you are grateful, improves attentiveness, commitment, energy, sleep duration, and may even help fight depression.
• People who think every day, speak or keep records of their gratitude, often help others and offer support.
• Those who experience gratitude, less than the value attached to material things, less envious of others and more willing to share their things.

Thanks to friends, relatives, colleagues, clients, as sincere gratitude - a great way to strengthen relations. Are not you pleased yourself when you are grateful for a job well done, or simply for the fact that you have listened to someone?

7. Stop comparing yourself to others

Enough to be upset because of what others have. There will always be someone who earns more than you, who has the most expensive house or a car. Comparing yourself with others, you rate yourself in other people's standards of success. Instead, think about what is success for you personally.

8. Do what you've been putting off

All of us something to put off: a call to the insurance company, cleaning, or the purchase of new batteries. Co time, even such small things accumulate and hinder relax. If possible, try to do them as soon as they remember.

Or add one such case in its list of tasks for the day. After will understand with the basic chores, do what has long been delayed. You'd be surprised how much happier and more productive you feel yourself when throwing off the load.