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Is Your Life Weighing You Down Because You Are Unhappy?

Life might sometimes feel very busy. At times, juggling work, family, children, and a budget becomes overwhelming, and we feel as like we are at our wits end!

We experience hopelessness, isolation, and fear. When all that bad energy comes together, it can make us feel as though we hate our lives.

However, all is not lost; there is always a way out, even though it might feel like you’re stuck in a rut forever. It requires a lot of self discipline, some introspection and admitting that you’re unhappy. When you accept that something is not quite right, you can then take concrete efforts to make it right.

To learn more, keep reading…

Find The Source Of Your Discontent

The first step, as we indicated earlier, is to acknowledge your unhappiness. Once you are aware of this, you can take the necessary steps to change your mindset and return to a level of happiness and fulfilment. Remember that happiness is a choice.

However, that is sometimes rather simpler said than done, isn’t it? Change does not come easily or quickly. It calls for a degree of effort, commitment, and self-awareness that most of us simply don’t have time for.

Or to be more precise, we don’t prioritise ourselves. So, we simply continue to be dissatisfied. The problem then is that this discontent permeates every aspect of our lives, making us hate it even more!

After all, you start to feel as though a heavy object is pressing down on you. You consequently experience misery, feeling stuck and unmotivated.

There is a bright side to everything, which is excellent news. Of course, there is always a chance that things will improve. However, you must be prepared to put in the effort.

Suppose you hate going out to work every day. It’s time to start looking for a new job if you really don’t like your current one, especially if it takes a monumental effort just to get out of bed in the morning.

If you’re in a relationship and you’re not having fun with your partner or yourself, it’s time to end it.

Keep in mind that you are in charge of making decisions in your life. Simply remind yourself of your inner strength, value, and potential.

It is important to note that there will be moments in your life when you are unable to make significant changes to your situation. And that’s fine.

You simply assure yourself that the situation won’t be this way forever. The good news is that change is one of life’s constants, so maintain your composure and never lose hope that things can (and will) get better.

Positivity is a powerful tool, so try to use it, especially when you are feeling anything but positive! It’s all about focus.

Make Your Goals A Reflection of Your Life

One reason why we may be unhappy is because we’ve moved away from our primary principles and the goals that we set for ourselves. Your goals are kept in your thoughts even if you’ve never said them out loud or recorded them in a journal.

Then, when the life we’re leading isn’t bringing us anywhere near close to these goals, we feel uneasy and tense. But frequently we don’t make the connection between the two.

As a result, we continue to muddle along, which increases our anxiety and pushes us further away from our life goals and core principles.

Always try to keep your eye on the prize but also try to enjoy the journey too!

Another thing that separates us from our true selves is society, family, and friends. They all have different ideas on how we must live our lives, and they’re not shy about sharing them with us. Repeatedly.

It’s frequently just simpler to follow along. Who are we to doubt them when they know us better than we know ourselves? Or do they?

However, the truth is that when you live by someone else’s standards, it ultimately backfires since you aren’t on your own path. This can quickly lead to discontent, so don’t fall into this trap. They lead their lives, and you lead yours.

Do Yourself A Favor

Your innermost thoughts are mostly shaped by your past influences and childhood experiences. They may frequently be our worst enemy.

However, these are only thoughts, right?

Sadly, that isn’t the case. Because they keep telling you that you’re not capable of improvement or that you won’t succeed because you’re not good enough, these thoughts can make you really despise your life.

In truth, our mental processes influence our environment. The sooner you recognise that, the better, since you can then begin to exert some control over this self-defeating self-talk.

Start by becoming more sympathetic and kinder toward yourself.

You’re likely great at assisting others who are in need. So why not take care of yourself in the same way?

Being kind to yourself has a huge impact on empowerment and self-love. You’ll quit hating your life, for one thing. Then, rather than always dwelling on the negative, you’ll begin to notice the positive.

So, instead of listening to your inner critic the next time it speaks and focusing on negativity, think about something good that happened to you during your day. You’ll get better at overcoming negative emotions as time goes on and stop sabotaging your efforts.

As I said before, it’s all about focus; focus on the positive rather than the negative and you can rewire your mind.

In Conclusion

If you’re unhappy with the way your life is going, start by figuring out why. Once you identify the cause, you need to concentrate on shifting your negative and destructive thought patterns in favour of positive and constructive ones.

Determine what needs to change, then begin to plan. As soon as you discover the route that will take you to your true self, keep going. Change takes time, but if you are persistent and prepared to work hard to achieve your goals, you can accomplish far more than you ever believed possible.

Whatever you want in life will require discipline to achieve, and if you want to know more about harnessing the power of self-discipline, then check out the featured resource below for a free report; download, read it and take action 🙂

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Stop Chasing Happiness And Find Fulfillment Instead

Stop Chasing Happiness And Find Fulfillment Instead

Stop Chasing Happiness And Find Fulfillment Instead

From an early age, we’re led to believe that nothing is more satisfying than finding happiness. But happiness is so elusive and intangible.

Plus, happiness is different for everyone, so how do you know when you find it? And is there something out there that can make you feel even better than happiness?

Yes! It’s called having a sense of fulfillment. Yet, what is that exactly, and how do you get it? That’s what we’re here today to find out.

So, keep reading to learn how you can stop chasing happiness to find fulfillment instead.

Happiness Vs. Fulfillment

Take a look at this quick overview of happiness vs. fulfillment because they are two vastly different ideas, and many people may not be sure about what they are and the differences between the two.

So, let’s dive in and take a look at happiness first…

Happiness

Happiness includes feelings like contentment, excitement, and joy. But the problem with these kinds of emotions is that they are all temporary.

Sure, it feels nice while it lasts, but other emotions take over, like anger, fear, and anxiety, and these negative emotions tend to hang around for much longer!

The trap many of us fall into is that we believe we’ll reach our point of happiness when we achieve certain things in our lives.

We say things like, “If I buy that shiny, red car, I’ll be happy.” or “Once I have my own house, I’ll finally be happy.”

Of course, you’ll be happy! But that happiness can only last so much. After that, reality sets in, especially when the bills start coming in.

Another problem with happiness is that we often view it in terms of other people. So, we compare our lives to theirs, which is never a good idea.

No one knows what’s going on in other people’s lives. So, it’s not fair to compare only the good parts. It sends you on a loop of perpetual disappointment. The only person you should compare yourself to is you.

Fulfillment

When you pursue the things that really matter to you, you bring fulfillment into your life. Fulfillment is when you take actionable steps towards the things you value. Part of it is also achieving goals that were set up based on these core values.

Living your life with a consistent set of values allows you to have integrity towards who you truly are. It also allows you more control over your emotions and thoughts.

This makes it possible to bring the locus of control inward. Thus, you feel stronger and more empowered.

The bottom line is that happiness is dependent on external factors. Many of these factors are material and likely to change at any moment.

Fulfillment, on the other hand, is internally driven. You’re the one who determines what means more to you, and then by going after it, you elevate the levels of fulfillment in your life.

How To Find Fulfillment

You can find fulfillment in many ways. But you have to choose to see it in every experience and situation in your life, especially those that don’t go your way.

It sounds more challenging than it really is, but it’s actually relatively easy once you know what you’re doing. And it’s way more rewarding and empowering than chasing the ever-fleeting feeling of happiness.

Here are some ways to find fulfillment and bring meaning to your life.

Know Thyself

The great philosopher, Socrates, said, “Know Thyself” to encourage his students to look inward when searching for the meaning of life. So then, when you know your true nature, you can find fulfillment because you know your true self-worth.

You can do that by thinking of a moment when you felt most fulfilled. What about that specific event made you feel this way?

The more you know about yourself, the more fulfillment you’ll find in life. Remember, fulfillment isn’t about having a nice house or the latest fashion. It’s much deeper than that and much more nuanced.

It just takes a bit of soul searching.

Help Others

Helping others is one of the best ways to fill your life with fulfillment. You feel good by volunteering your time or money to help someone in need.

The science behind it is that helping others boosts the release of ‘feel-good’ chemicals in our brains. Some of these include hormones, such as dopamine and serotonin.

So, whether you’re helping a friend move or helping out at a local soup kitchen, you’re bringing joy and ease into other people’s lives. Not only that, but you’re also making yourself feel more fulfilled.

Create Connections

Surrounding yourself with a healthy, supportive social circle allows you to feel connected to something. In addition, being part of something fosters a sense of fulfillment in your life.

You have people you can talk to anytime you feel sad or stressed out. Consequently, you don’t suffer from any feelings of isolation, disconnection, or separation.

Be Grateful

Having a sense of gratitude can help you see the purpose in life and feel like you’re connected to a greater good. Gratitude also boosts your overall health and encourages positive emotions, which can come in handy when you’re going through a tough time.

It also motivates you to strive for more. Yet, when there’s a setback, you focus more on what you have and what you’ve accomplished rather than wallowing in your losses.

Being thankful each day can help you overcome challenging times and give you the support you need to get back up and keep trying to reach your potential.

Keep in mind that if you’re not okay with what you don’t have, you’ll never appreciate what you do have.

Always trying to chase happiness definitely affects the way you think and if you are constantly chasing this, you need to start to think differently because if you don’t find happiness, self doubt and negativity can creep in. If you want to know more about avoiding self-doubt and developing a positive mindset, check out the featured resource below for a free detailed report; download, read it and take action 🙂

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Is Happiness A Choice

Is Happiness A Choice?

Is Happiness A Choice

Let me ask you something? Is happiness a choice? Can people really choose to feel happy or not?

There are conflicting studies and opinions about general happiness and choosing to be happy.  Both arguments have merit, but the truth seems to be somewhere in the middle.

There are certain conditions that do affect one’s ability to choose happiness such as depression and other mood disorders. Some people have difficulty controlling emotions, but it’s a skill that can be learned with practice.

Choosing to be happy may seem difficult, but there are things most people can do to increase their level of happiness.

Before jumping right in and learning ways to increase happiness, you need to learn about conditions that may make it difficult to will yourself to be happy.  Depression and other mood disorders, ADHD, PTSD, a disability, grief, or poverty make choosing to be happy more challenging.

If you are dealing with any of these issues, there are still practical ways you can increase your happiness, but it may be more difficult.  Keep in mind that change takes time, but it is achievable.

Choosing To Be Happy

Happiness

Choosing to be happy is more than just willing yourself to feel happy.  Part of it is thinking positively and thinking happy thoughts, but there are also more practical ways to make yourself happier.

Studies have identified several factors of happiness: social relationships, temperament or your ability to adapt, money, society and culture, and positive thinking styles.

Temperament is partly genetic, but it can still be improved with practice.   Below you will learn about some things that you can do in each area to make yourself happy.

Improve Social Relationships 

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Improve current relationships by reaching out more often, opening lines of communication about past negative experiences, forgiving or seeking forgiveness, or making more time for your friends and family.

Make an effort to make new friends.  Take on a new hobby, take a class, join a club, or go to different places in order to meet new people.  You can also reach out to others online through social media or dating apps. Don’t be afraid to talk to new people and exchange phone numbers with people you get along with.

Invite friends and family members out for lunch, shopping, or have them over for coffee. Reach out. It can be tempting to wait for others to make the first move so be bold and take the initiative yourself; I’m sure your friends and family will truly appreciate you making the effort to reach out to them.

Improve Temperament And Adaptation

Choose To Be Happy

Practice pausing before you react to something. Give yourself a moment to get your emotions in check so that you respond in the way that you really want to rather than having an outburst.

This is a skill that can have a profound effect on both you and those around you; no-one likes to be around someone who gets moody or angry at the drop of a hat.

So, when something triggers you, pause, take a breath and think about how you would want someone to treat you in this situation.

Learn deep breathing techniques. You can try some guided meditation if you like, but you don’t need to over-complicate this. Mindfulness is a really great way to be calm and in the present.

Try to be more open to other people’s ideas and practice letting go of your need to control.

Improve Your Finances

Happiness Is A Choice

Increase your income by finding a new job, asking for a raise, or taking on a second job. This is not always easy and can be risky, but could definitely be worth it in the long run.

Improve your education so that you can find a better paying jobs. Learning new skills isn’t just for school and the happiest and most successful people are constantly learning new things to help them grow.

Be open to other career paths. It’s very easy to become comfortable in your career, but is it really what you want to do? Being stuck in a job/career that doesn’t inspire you can be a real drain on your happiness; it’s not just about money, but the sense of fulfillment you get out of what you do.

Look for things you can do to earn a passive income. This is where the internet can come in to play.

There has never been a better time to start an online business and this could just be a side hustle to help you make a mortgage or car payment and if you can set up a business with a recurring monthly payment for customers, all the better.

Pay off debt or avoid taking on debt. if you have any debt, but especially large amounts of debt, this should be an absolute priority for you before anything else. This can be quite painful to begin with but you must take responsibility and deal with it and by doing so, you can feel much happier about yourself.

Set a budget and stick with it so you can have money to do the things that are important to you. Linked to the point above about debt, stop spending money that you don’t have on things you don’t need!

Embrace Or Change Society And Culture

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Embrace local culture and society if they’re a positive influence in your life.  Learn, explore, and enjoy your environment and the people you share it with.

Don’t be afraid to change your environment or seek change in your current one.  Do what you can to be a positive influence.  Stand up for what you believe in and speak out against social injustice.

Positive Thinking 

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Choose a positive mantra and repeat it several times a day. Positive thinking may feel and sound a little cliched but it does work to put you in a better frame of mind.

Keep a gratitude journal or make a list of things you’re grateful for. Gratitude is really powerful and you do have a lot to be grateful for.

Here is an article about the science of gratitude and if you really want to take your gratitude practice to the next level, then take a look at the Grateful Mind training here as it is a fantastic course all about using gratitude in your life.

Make sure you’re not practicing negative self talk, and if you are, change your inner monologue.

Watch comedies and do other things that will make you laugh more. Laughter really is the best medicine 😁

Practice smiling even when you don’t feel like it.  People smile because they’re happy, but people also become happier when smiling.

You can choose to be happy, but it’s more than just saying “I’m happy”.

Choosing to be happy is about figuring out what will make you happy and then making a decision to take action to achieve your desire. 

Choosing to be happy is choosing to focus on the good in your life, and having the courage to make changes in your life that will lead you to more happiness.  You have options and you can choose to be happy.

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Inner Strength

5 Ways To Boost Inner Strength

There’s hardly a person alive who would tell you that life is anything but busy – and sometimes tough. You can be pulled in so many directions at once it can be easy to get stretched thin.

No matter how old you are, you’ll encounter trying situations at home, at work, among your friends and family and even with strangers. Everything you go through taps into your inner strength and can drain it little by little.

You can’t do anything about what you experience simply because it’s part of life. But what you can do is to find ways to boost your inner strength so that you have the calm that you need to deal with whatever comes your way.

There are several tools that you can use to help boost your ability from an internal mindset perspective – so that regardless of what you face, you can have a life of calm.

Exercise to Gain Inner Strength

One of the easiest tools that you have at your disposal to use when you need to boost your mental strength is physical exercise. Exercise does so much more than give your muscles strength and help keep your weight under control.

Exercise is necessary to strengthen you emotionally – and one of the reasons for this is because it can calm stress. It’s a well known fact that stress is one of the leading causes for turmoil, loss of peace and mentally draining.

When you experience a loss of inner strength, you’ll feel tired, mentally sluggish and unable to concentrate. What’s going on is that the things you’re dealing with in life (even if they’re not necessarily horrible things) are chipping away at your inner strength.

What you go through in life will hit you internally long before it hits you outwardly. In other words, you’ll feel the stress first. You’ll fee anxious and restless and then you’ll exhibit physical symptoms like insomnia, headaches, stomachaches and more.

What exercise does is cause you to produce a greater supply of endorphins. Not only do these chemicals take care of stress, but they work to boost your supply of inner strength.

You’ll feel calmer and ready to handle whatever it is that you need to take care of. There are some exercises that are better for boosting your inner strength than others.

When you exercise vigorously – such as with aerobic exercise – you’ll find that you have more inner strength. This is because the faster paced exercise works to raise the endorphin levels, but at the same time, it drives down the stress level, gives you more confidence and a more positive attitude.

When you take part in a regular exercise routine, you’ll find that your store of inner strength increases and has a beneficial boost to your mental abilities. The key to using exercise to boost your inner strength is making sure that you find something that you enjoy doing.

If you don’t, you’ll only feel the added stress of doing something that you don’t want to do and you’ll be dealing with the negative emotions associated with that, instead of healing.

Check out this additional audio segment discussing how everybody has their strengths:

How Mantras Boost Your Inner Strength

If you’re not sure what a mantra is, it’s a sound or a word that’s used to help people focus when they’re meditating. There are many reasons that you want to use mantras.

They can help you deflect the thoughts and attitudes that can drain your inner strength. When you practice a mantra, you’ll notice that you have a more positive outlook toward whatever it is that you’re dealing with.

You’ll also discover that learning a mantra can set you free from stress and anxiety. The words that you use in a mantra or the sounds that you’ll use can vary depending on what you choose to do.

There can be particular mantras, too – based on what you’re searching for. Some people will use a basic Om sound as their mantra while others will use specific mantras that translate into requests for healing or blessings or other things that they want to focus on.

Mantras are a way of tapping into your inner strength and finding the balance that you need to restore the draining energy. When you have a mantra, you can use it to help you focus during the times that you feel uncertain or nervous.

You can use it to calm your fears and to help you find your center so that you remain in control. Studies have shown that people who use mantras to help boost their inner strength are often more successful in all areas of their lives than people who don’t.

You’ll experience clarity and a mental focus that others won’t have. Not only will you be able to boost your inner strength on a regular basis, but during a time of crisis when you really need your mental alertness.

Mantras help you be aware of what’s going on around you as well as within you. They can guide you to help lift you above the situation and to keep your perspective.

This will help you to see situations as solvable and as a moment in time rather than as something that can’t be overcome. When you practice with a mantra, it will teach you to be more confident in your abilities and can raise your self-esteem.

You’ll be able to find the positives even in the negative situations you might have to deal with. By using a mantra, you’ll be able to have a way to relax at any moment throughout the day.

This can help bring your emotions back into focus. People who practice mantras are also often more compassionate and slower to get angry. This level headedness is a wonderful trait to have in terms of keeping you emotionally sound.

Check out this additional audio segment discussing how strengths are developed:

Affirmations Are a Tool for Boosting Inner Strength

Some people think that affirmations and mantras are one in the same, but they’re not. Rather than being a single word or a sound, an affirmation is made up of complete sentences.

These sentences are designed to delve deep into the subconscious mind to refill the well of inner strength. When people practice these sentences, they’re keys that can help the user see what it is that restores them.

When the affirmations are practiced, the subconscious mind recognizes them. Behavior changes takes place based on how the person then decides to live his or her life.

Affirmations influence the people who use them by causing them to react to pleasant or unpleasant situations with a happier outlook. When affirmations are practiced, it allows the person to replenish the inner strength rather than taking from it.

When you connect with the power of the subconscious mind, you can change your life. What the affirmations do first is affect the way that you think. The way that you think about things will be followed by the way that you act.

So if you’re someone who has a situation in your life that has always robbed you of confidence or affected your self-esteem, practicing affirmations can help you change the way that you react because it changes your thought processes.

You’ll be able to break free of the type of thinking that keeps you stuck. Affirmations give you a positive outlook on life, which in turn leads you to feeling happier and more vibrant.

The positivity adds to your inner strength rather than taking from it. You don’t have to carve out huge blocks of time to be able to practice affirmations. You can say them throughout the day to unleash their positive power.

When you first begin to use affirmations, you might encounter some self-resistance because it can be a struggle to change the way that you’ve always thought about things.

But you can press on and use affirmations to help you until it becomes second nature for you. You can use different affirmations depending on what type of inner strength you need to boost.

For example, if you’re struggling in the area of self-doubt and you feel like a failure in what you try to do, then you need to use an affirmation that supports your success.

For that type of affirmation, you would say something like “I can achieve success” or “Success is drawn to me.” Don’t put it in the future by using words like, “I will succeed.”

If you were struggling with feeling sad or not happy with your life, you would use affirmations that affirmed happiness. You would repeat a sentence such as “Happiness dwells within me” or “Happiness is drawn to me.”

You wouldn’t say, “I will become happier.” You want to keep it in the present. By using affirmations to change your subconscious, you can boost the level of your inner strength.

Check out this additional audio segment discussing how to tease out and nurture your strengths:

Using Yoga to Boost Inner Strength

Finding a way to boost your inner strength is a lot easier than you might think. One of the ways that you can do this is by practicing yoga. Yoga is a spiritual practice that uses breathing and postures in meditation and relaxation.

It teaches people how to gain inner strength and get rid of stress. You can use it to help you retain a sense of peace. By working to build up a person’s body and mind strength, it works to boost the inner strength.

You might be living your life and feel that you’re doing what you supposed to do but there are times throughout the day when you simply feel so mentally and emotionally drained, it’s hard to muddle through.

Or you might reach the end of the day and feel as if you gave your all to the point where you have nothing left to give – including to yourself. This will quickly drain your inner strength and if you don’t boost it back, you’ll end up experiencing things like fatigue and emotional and physical upsets.

Yoga is a tool that you can use to influence yourself toward being a positive person and positive people are more successful. The reason is because people who have inner strength have a confidence that others don’t often have.

Practicing yoga makes you feel a greater sense of self because when you take part in the poses, your body releases endorphins that affect your mood and give you a boost.

When you practice yoga on a consistent basis, you’ll notice that you feel better physically and emotionally. The benefit of yoga is that it can be practiced anywhere – including at the office.

When you feel that mental and emotional drain and you know that your inner strength needs a boost, you can use yoga to give you back your energy and clarity.

You’ll feel better about yourself and your abilities. There are different types of yoga that you can use. But some of them are better suited for boosting inner strength than others.

There is Ashtanga, Bikram, Iyenga, Vinyasa and Hatha. Of these, Hatha is more often used for the purpose of boosting inner strength because it has the ability to restore balance to the body.

Check out this additional audio segment discussing the value of playing to your strengths:

Finding the Right Self-Help Books to Boost Inner Strength

A great tool that you can use to boost your inner strength is a self-help book. You can find a wide selection of them at retail and online stores that are written specifically to guide you toward greater inner strength.

One of the ways that these books can help you is that they teach you the link that self-esteem has with your actions. When you have lower self-esteem, you also have a lack of confidence in your ability as a person.

This lack of confidence bleeds over into how you perform at work and how well you do in your relationships with other people. When you struggle with your inner strength, it can make you feel less happy than you deserve to feel.

By using a self-help book, you can have the power that you need to reach the best level of inner strength. These books will help you be able to pinpoint how you’re sabotaging yourself in different areas of your life and draining your well of inner strength.

You’ll learn about actions that you’re doing that create a well of negativity and keep you trapped in an ongoing cycle of strength drain. When you gain the inner strength balance that you need, you’ll be able to overcome a lack of self-esteem.

You’ll discover that you feel more confident in your relationships and with your job. You’ll also learn to recognize situations and people in your life that act as drains on your attitude – and how you can deal with these individuals.

A self help book can show you how to restore your inner strength through the use of different techniques that teach calmness and restoration. You’ll be able to view things with a clarity that you didn’t have before.

You’ll learn exactly what inner strength is and the issues that can occur in life that can affect your strength. You’ll learn the negative and positive influences that are around and within you that you need either avoid or cultivate.

By using self help books that show you how to boost your inner strength, you’ll gain a stronger sense of self that will lead you to develop a life of accomplishments and happiness that are well within your reach.

Check out this additional audio segment discussing the top ways to identify your strengths:

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Discover Your Passion pt2

Discovering Your Passion pt2

OK, are you ready to continue with some more tips to discovering your passion or true purpose? Yes, ok then, read on 🙂

Get Outdoors And Let Nature Inspire You!

If you’re just sat down on a sofa or chair right now, surrounded by 4 walls and a ceiling, you’re not alone! In fact, it’s the number one reason that more and more of us have no passion. Our progressively homebound, car-bound, office-bound, computer-bound life-style takes up a lot of our lives and saps our energy and enthusiasm. We just roll along, getting by. Where is the fire and passion in that?!!!!!

Do Something Different

This isn’t what our bodies or brains were built for. Throughout our history, we spent much more time outdoors and living an active lifestyle. Our sedentary life-style is a modern arrival but we’ve surely accepted it and many have grown to like it!

Convenience might be good, but lack of daily action isn’t good for us at all. We were designed to be active and sedentary living has been associated to pretty much every major health disorder of our times: as well as that, it can seriously cause a lack of passion.

So get off your butt and get outside! Switch off the television, push the ottoman away from the couch, lace your shoes and get outdoors for at least half-hour a day, plus a couple of hours every weekend. This surely isn’t too much to ask, is it? You’ll be doing you body AND mind a world of good.

Sure, we understand, you don’t have to go outside to get a great workout. But simply getting outdoors, appreciating nature and looking at flowers is a great way to alleviate depression and also sparks creativity.

There’s no clinical research to affirm it, but don’t you think it kind of makes sense that time spent outside adds to good health, higher relaxation, more fitness, or more passion. After all, whether you’re walking, gardening, biking, or simply getting the mail, being outside inherently means becoming more active than being indoors. It may not be on any medical groups prescrition pad yet (although that is changing and some General Practitioners in the UK do prescribe walking for some conditions), but we say, make more time outside among your top passion improvement goals.”

 

Here are a few ideas to inspire you to get outside:

Put on outdoor clothes as soon as you get home from work. For many of us, the clothes you wear for work are “indoor” clothes. Make it a ritual: arrive home, take off the suit/shirt/trouser etc. and jump into a tee shirt and jeans/shorts, and begin the 2nd part of your day anew.

Leave any crucial outdoor gear by the door. Outdoor shoes, sunglasses, a brimmed hat, sun block, and bug repellent all are crucial summer outdoor gear. Have them all prepared and ready for an impromtu excursion, and leave them by your front or back door.

Why not try matching meal times with outdoor time. If your dinner took twenty minutes then you know that you need to walk for at least twenty minutes outside after your dinner has gone down.

Do you like gardening? You do, good. Try to do some gardening tasks in small batches. Most of us tend to leave gardening jobs for the weekend and then this results in many hours of difficult work, the last few not really fun. Surely it would be much better to break this up during the week; just get into the garden for small 30-minute bursts throughout the week. Not only will this will get you outside more often, but you will be much less likely to get bored or fatigued as you are only working in short bursts. And best of all, come the weekend, your yard and garden will require only a little work, leaving you more time for play! Win-win all around!”

 

Adopt more nature walks. If you’ve adopted walking as part of your regimen, fantastic! So, what do you love doing outside? Whether it’s golfing, fishing, doing watercolors, shooting basketballs, playing badminton, playing with your dog, have your gear ready and waiting near your front or back door, ready for instant use.

Get Creative

There’s a huge myth in our civilization: that passion may solely be spontaneous. You either like your job or you do not. You either like working out or detest it. You’re interested in reading books or you find them awful. So there is this belief that passion can’t be coerced or produced. I don’t agree with this at all. Passion may be produced. Even for things you may not presently like.

By fine-tuning the activities and pastimes you engage in, you may discover a passion for anything. All it takes is a little patience and an open mind.

Changing It

The advantage of this is that you wind up loving the things you have to do anyways. Working out, learning, reading, working and nearly any pursuit can be made into a passion you enjoy and look forward to.

And if you understand how to do it, existing passions may be turned from mildly interesting to energising. The skill of discovering your passion is like turning up the dial for the quantity of color you have in life. Here are a few ways to find your passion:

Curiosity is the cornerstone of passion. Forget what you think you know about something and start from the view that you’re almost totally ignorant on the subject. Then seek novelty to boost your interest.

Make it a contest – create rules and objectives for yourself. The more imaginative you can be, the better. Be outrageous.

Set a particular goal and establish a (realistic) deadline. This can infuse routine actions with a greater sense of direction and purpose. Publishing a report goes from being only another task, to a creative challenge that challenges you.

Cut down distractions and get rid of noise. The more you focus on an activity the better you may notice that it has interesting qualities about it. The only really boring activity are the ones you aren’t pay attention to and this is all down to a lack of focus.

Discover ways to utilize skills you already have in a fresh endeavor. An artistic individual could draw images to help himself study. An athletic individual may be able to utilize her strength and endurance as a speaker.”

 

If an action appears to be too difficult for you to become enthusiastic about it, don’t worry. The key here is to not rush it and try to force it; allow things to happen naturally. Focus less on the outcomes and more about experimenting until you are able to develop the skill.

Conclusion

If you believe in something, are passionate about it and can clearly visualise the end result, you can feel a sense of certainty that you will achieve it. It’s no longer a question of if, but when. And this is powerful.

With this level of certainty you can quit stressing over what might or might not happen in the future because you know that you’re going to accomplish it and that’s final. Accomplishment merely becomes a matter of doing X to accomplish Y.

You can now live in the present because you know that your future is in your hands and you WILL achieve whatever you set out to do!

Set a direction for your life and love the ride!

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