How to be Happy & Stay Happy - Daily Activities to Build Happiness into Your Life

Opening my Authors copy of zine 1 of 4 Happy 365 Activity Zines.

I call these activity zines, zines instead of books because they are different than your typical activity book in that. I believe each page draws you in with the colorful pages and simple activities. I have seen some very wordy self-help, mindful activity books on the market. Some that felt like a big task to take on. And for me these were discouraging instead of feeling welcoming and encouraging. I didn't want my Happy 365 activity zine to feel like that at all. I'm not trying to dis anyone and their hard work or well-planned books. No, not at all, there is enough room for everyone and every book or zine on the shelf.

But no, you know partly why I call my activity zine a zine. I say partly because the other half of my reasoning is. I want; I demand that I get these zines out for people because everyone deserves a good, happy life. One filled with love and joy. Even in the tough times, happiness can be found and with Happy 365 showing you the tools and skills you have and need. You will create the happy life you deserve.

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I'm So Mad, I could Just Scream!

 

Feeling like I'm coming apart at the seams. I could just scream!

Can you relate? There are days I really want to tell the world and everybody in it where to go. Of coarse I am not going to release my rage on the world. Why would I, only my family, those I love and those that love me, and maybe my work family really give a hoot about how I am feeling. I know this. 

I also know throwing a fit only hurts those around me and will make me feel incredibly worse then before.

Managing emotions can be hard but if you start now and learn to identify what makes you angry. You will be able to better manage your feelings when something goes wrong because you an prepare and better understand what triggers your anger. Try working through some anger management tools and learn how you react and respond to stress. You deserve to be happy, and you deserve to stay calm and relaxed. So do practice self care and show yourself a little grace, forgive and move forward is a good plan. Do better and be better is a good motto.

Be Happy and stay happy

Be Happy - Practice Your Happy Face

 One of the 365 days to a happier you activities is to practice your happy face. Spend time looking at yourself in the mirror making the best happy faces you can make. Think about which of your happy faces you give to different scenarios in life. As in when seeing a random person, do you smile big showing lots of teeth or do you glance up, paying no mind and keep walking? Plan to make an effort to smile often, smile big and at everyone. Even if your not sure someone sees you, smile big any way. Before long smiling will become a habit and that is what you want. Retrain your body and mind to smile and smiling will help increase joy, increase positivity and help you be happy and stay happy.

I wish you all the happiness in the world. You deserve it! Spread joy and laughter and feel good about who you are and where your going in life.

Balancing Your life - The Wheel Of Life Tool

Some days you just want to scream, 

I know, 

we all have those days...

  You get up, get the kids out the door, rush off to work, have dinner, clean house, get ready for the next day and repeat this pattern day in and day out. It can feel mundane, routine, boring and unfulfilling. If your feeling even a little bit of " stuck in a rut" or just unfulfilled in your daily routines or life in general. 

Then it is time you step back and take a good look at your wheel of life, how is it turning for you? Where do you see yourself on your life wheel? You might be surprised once you take look at the various areas of your life, where you place the most balanced area on your life wheel and where you are lacking balance. On a scale of 10 to 100 or you can choose to use 1 to 10 whatever your preference. The lowest number on your wheel representing minimal to no balance, the highest number representing feeling successful and well balanced in that area of your life.

Once you have examined each area and completed the balance wheel, you can see if your life is moving forward as you would like it too or expect it too. You might be surprised at the areas you shine most and those areas you need to focus more attention too. With a visual tool saying to you this is your life. You then have the option and power to say " I am satisfied with this life or I want things to improve here" whichever you choose is of coarse completely up to you and no one else needs to be aware of your life wheel. This tool can be used by everyone and anyone who wants to improve and enhance their life in any area of their life. 

With a completed wheel of life you can make a plan of action in areas that need improving.

For example: if your home life is at a 5 or 50, that would mean you are halfway to being 100% fulfilled in your home environment. Each area you place on your life wheel should encompass everything within that life environment, such as, smell, visually pleasing, organized, happy, healthy, enviting, free of judgement or bias, friendly, shared responsibility, equality, supportive, encouraging, the options are endless. How you view each category is dependant on your needs and what you prioritize in each life environment.

For the example of the home life environment being at a 5 or 50, that would show you you need to examine closely why your home environment is not at 10 or 100 percent fulfilling, gratifying, joyful and supporting to you. Ask yourself what is missing? Or is there something you can identify that is hindering reaching 10 or 100% happiness? Once you identify any barriers or concerns then you can make a plan of action to correct or build up these areas by addressing each concern or barrier identified. 

For example: My home life is loud and angry, there is a lot of yelling at each other...

For this concern you want to look deep at why those involved are angry and what is at the root of the yelling. What exactly is your contribution to the levels of ander and or yelling, can you be part of the solution and not the problem? Meaning can you take a new approach to communication? Yes you can decide to stay mindful of your voice and how it is coming across to whom you are speaking with, you can work at stopping yourself and using a calming technique to keep a calm demeanor and continue the discussion or take a moment to consider the reason behind the anger, is there anything you can do to assist with any distress of the parties involved? Can you be more supportive, do you need more support? Sometimes just stopping the use of negative words and or phrases in conversations can create a comforting and open dialogue one without fear of rejection, accusation or judgement. Stop using words like "stupid, dumb, idiot, useless, worthless, no good" and stop using phrases like " your no good, you never use your head, you do stupid things, that was dumb or thoughtless" Words are powerful and meaningful, once it is said you can not simply say " I didn't mean it" and expect the person to immediately be able to let it go, these words sting and are not immediately erased from the mind. When negative words are repeated enough times they can become embedded in the subconscious creating a fight or flight anxiety and stressful automatic response, and that is a whole other discussion for another post.

I used a very serious example above which shows how deep one can go using their life wheel.

You can use the wheel of life for specific areas only such as friendship, relationships, education, housing etc.

For example: you might put in each category; high school, study habits, grades, college prep, moving towards graduation, financial aid, housing and so forth. Then you can examine if you are moving forward as planned toward your educational goals, are you on tract to graduate as planned, are your study habits getting the grades you want and need in order to get into the college of your choice?

You can use the wheel of life for finances only, each category could be: saving to buy a home, raises and increased income, covering all financial responsibilities like car, electricity, insurance, etc., vacation planning, retirement planning, children's education, or family planning.

You could use the wheel of life for relationships, your wheel might look like; having enough friends, friends are lifting you up, friends are active and fun, friends have things in common, have a best friend, friends are reliable, special friend, friends will listen and not judge, friends can keep a secret. You get the idea, these are just examples, you can get as creative as you like and as simplified as you wish.

Your life wheel is all about you and only your life, of coarse it is balance in relation to the people around you and your surroundings, the total environment to which you live, or the chosen single area to put your focus. You can only choose to change yourself you cannot and should not expect to change others involved in your life unless those individuals are willing participants and supportive of a change.

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Improving Your Body Image and Loving Yourself

Are you in love with yourself? You should be.

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You are amazing, you are super important!, you can choose your career, you can choose how you want to dress, you can change your likes and dislikes without anyone's consent or approval. If you really think about your life, yes there are struggles, we all have them, however loving yourself should not be one of them. We can easily forget and take things for granted, I want to remind you how amazing and one of a kind you are. I wrote the " Mind Bending Body Talk" book to help people take control of their mind and their thoughts. Your mind and your thoughts, remove unwanted negative thinking and replace them with self promoting positive thoughts. Anything can be conquered, I bet if you think about some past struggle you overcame, you might remember how big and overwhelming it may have been at the time you were facing it, now it is a past success, however small it may be or however far back you need to go to remember it that is fine. Your past struggles may even be something that you did not necessarily over come but instead grew past and moved forward. Maybe it was a situation out of your control that caused you great distress, but finally came to an end for whatever reason. The point is you can move forward, you can move past those negative feelings. Events and situations happening throughout our lives that effect us in more ways than we maybe aware of. It is crucial that you control your own mind and not any other form of influence in your life, parents, media, peers, family, friends, managers, I could go on and on.

Choose to be the "Master of Your Own Mind" Master yourself, and nobody else will be able to. Not even those subconscious negative thoughts and experiences. "Mind Bending Mind Control' sounds like a parlor trick but I assure you it is not a trick at all. It is a very simple tool to implement, but one that must be diligently practiced, applied, and utilized on the daily in order for you to see and feel results. Yes I said feel results, ridding yourself of negative thoughts will make room for a flood of positivity, and positivity is a feel good mindset that breeds happy emotions. Your life will be transformed by simply having a positive out look in life, being happy can be contagious, like laughter, you walk into a room and everyone is laughing, you then start to laugh as well, it is just an automatic feeling sometimes, we don't even know why everyone is laughing but it feels fun to laugh along with them. Yes sometimes it just a big wide smile and not a full on laugh, but you get the point. Not everyone will be effected by your spreading your aura of positivity around, there are always the bah humbugs of the world. That is fine your not out to change the world your out to change you. 

You could also change others, as a side affect of how others see you and who you have become, a confident, positive, and supportive person. Those around you just might start asking you questions, because everyone wants to be happy and in love with who they are, happiness is attractive, people desire a happy life, and it starts with staying focused on your own happiness. Your happiness will be seen by the world, so you very well could change the world just by being happy!

Lets change the world!

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