It's Our Choice

 It’s Our Choice

“How to be happy: Decide every morning that you are in a good mood”

Happiness is vital for our Health — Mental, Physical and Emotional.

The word “Happy” means: “feeling, showing or expressing joy”.

What makes us Happy?

What gives us Joy?

Happiness can be explained as “an enduring state of mind consisting of Positive emotions”.

Also, Happiness gives a sense that one’s life is meaningful and valued.

We all want this, don’t we.

To have ‘an enduring state of mind’, we need to Train our Mindset to think Positively every day and all day.

Note the quote says “Decide every morning”, so it is a choice.

A choice of what we think about and why we are thinking ‘those thoughts’.

Focus on the present, on the today, on the now, and in a Positive way.

This daily choice will affect our long-term Happiness.

It will ‘create’ that loop or circle of thinking Good thoughts and then feeling Better and Good inside of ourselves because of it.

This makes Life look Good to us Personally.

This will also keep any negativity away from our minds.

Self-Care will keep us Physically Strong.

Mindfulness will keep us Mentally Strong.

Both of these will keep us Balanced Emotionally.

And then we’ll be glad to wake up every morning, and we’ll look Forward to a Happy day (and a Happy Life).

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

You Are Good Enough!

 You Are Good Enough

“I realize that I don’t have to be perfect, all I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect, and beautiful journey of life”

The one thing we must never do is compare ourselves to others.

We live in a society which ‘expects’ everyone to be perfect and this can put an unconscious pressure on us.

This causes stress and anxiety, both of which are not good for our Mental Health.

Also, by trying to be perfect in ‘one thing’, we can miss out on so many opportunities.

Why not just ‘give it a go’ and not worry about anything being ‘perfect’.

Have the Confidence in Yourself that you can do something, that you will enjoy ‘it’ and that ‘it’ll be good enough’.

All of this will build up the Resilience within you and your mind.

And just Enjoy the Experience.

Never fear what someone else thinks.

Never fear their judgement.

Accept YOU For Who YOU Are!

As the quote says: “show up and enjoy — the beautiful journey of life”.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

Give The Mind Some 'Room'

 Give The Mind Some ‘Room’

“Accept your past without regret, handle your present with confidence and face your future without fear!”

It is Important to Accept ourselves for who we are, and this includes Accepting our Lives — the past, the present and the future.

As with anything in Life, we can Learn from every experience that we go through.

To do this, we need to give our minds ‘room’.

Room to think.

Room to accept.

Room to plan.

When we Accept who we are, we are Accepting our past, with all of the mistakes that we have made and Learned from.

This will Encourage us to stay in the present and to have Confidence in our own Abilities to Live in the Present.

Practicing Positive Thinking will Strengthen our Minds to do this.

Writing these Positive Affirmations in our own private journal means that we can re-read them again and again.

Saying these Positive words out loud will ‘imprint’ them in our minds because we are hearing our own voice.

And then with all of this, we can start to Plan the Future and have Confidence instead of fear.

This keeps our own Lives in our own Hands.

We need to Focus on the Positive and on any solutions that we may need to help us in Life.

It really does come down to having Trust in our own Abilities and having Faith In Ourselves.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

We Are Continuously Learning And Developing

 e Are Continuously Learning And Developing

“I’m strong because I have been weak. I’m brave because I have been afraid. I’m wise because I have been foolish”

This is us going on a journey of “Self-Discovery”.

We may have been weak in the past, but we have Strengthened ourselves Mentally, Emotionally and Physically.

We may have been frightened in the past of a person, an event or a ‘thing’ but we have overcome that fear and now we feel that we can face most things that come our way.

All of us have done something stupid in the past, things we look back on and regret, but we are wiser now and avoid being so silly again.

Throughout our lives, we are continuously Learning and Developing into Stronger and Happier people.

And never forget, we never know who is watching us and how our ‘example’ can Encourage them.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

I Am Grateful That You Are In My Life

 I Am Grateful That You Are In My Life

“Today I am grateful for all the people that are loving and kind to me”

This can come down to — who do we ‘allow’ into our lives?

One thing we do need to be Grateful for is the “Unconditional Love” that we receive from our parents.

If we are lucky enough to have both parents in our lives, we “see” that Special Love every day of our Lives.

We can show how much we Appreciate this Love simply by giving our mum and dad time out from our busy schedule, and caring for them when they get older.

Have you noticed that most people want to be Kind, Helpful and Happy in their lives?

Again, if we are lucky enough to have these ‘kind’ of people in our lives then we have some really Good friends.

We want to ‘keep’ their friendship so we need to show the same considerate Qualities to them.

A thoughtful Smile.

A cheerful ‘Thankyou’.

Sometimes a small gift of Appreciation can speak volumes.

Showing Genuine Care for others 'Shines through and people do respond to such Kindness.

Just think for a few moment ‘who’ you have in your Life and the Qualities they have and show.

This will help us to be ‘Grateful’ that we have them in our Lives.

All of this will have such a Positive effect on our Mental Health.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

Fifteen Minutes Every Day

 Fifteen Minutes Every Day

“I literally love being at home. In my own space. Comfortable and cozy. I love people, but I love my own time too”

This is something that we do actually “Need” — our own time.

Home means Comfort and when we are comfortable we are much Happier.

Having ‘our own space’ also helps us to clear our minds, and this gives us our Personal Time to rest, Relax and Rebuild, not just Mentally, but also Emotionally and Physically.

We also need to keep this in mind when we are with other people, because he or she needs his or her ‘Personal Space’ too.

The trouble can come when we need to Balance ‘alone time’ with ‘being with others’.

Too much alone time can damage our Mental Health.

Too much ‘association’ with other people can get on top of us.

We all need to work or / and look after our loved ones, it’s what we do as humans.

So we need to Plan our Time, as much as we can or is possible, to find and maintain that Balance.

Many of us have and use diaries but have you ever thought of putting in it “Personal Time” for yourself, every day?

Fifteen minutes every day might be all you need but this will Strengthen your Mind tremendously.

Having said all of this, what is the Home Environment like?

The more Peaceful the environment, the more Peaceful the mind.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

Appreciate Every Single Moment

 Appreciate Every Single Moment

“Someday we will look back at this moment, and it will forever remind us to never take the little things for granted”

How Important this is!

We must try to always be Grateful for anything Good that comes into our lives.

We should also be Grateful for the negative things, because we can Learn from them.

A Good way of doing this is to think about what we have in our Lives and write them down in a Gratitude journal.

A cup of coffee or tea with a biscuit is needed and well-earned after two hours of working (inside or outside the home).

A hug from our favourite aunt or uncle makes us feel so welcome when we visit them.

That Smile mother gives you when you’re popping in her shopping and having lunch with her.

Life is so ‘quick’ and can so easily be taken for granted, that we need to try to Appreciate every single moment, every single thing and every single person that we have in our Lives.

And it very often is the “little things” that we Appreciate more but that can so very easily be taken for granted.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!