Happiness

I would like to credit Mika Francis for this post, she is an incredible inspiration and has provided me the insight into how to gain happiness and its true importance. Her video the 31 day challenge has inspired me for this post and her challenge has changed my life to say the least.

Thankyou Mika!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_roWAXvS9A

Happiness

It's something we tend to often overlook or class as over rated or 'to only be found in movies'. As human's we're trained from a young age that happiness is not a constant emotion nor is sadness. However, far too many of us accept a lack of happiness; Using various excuses of 'people have worse problems than me' 'life could be worse'. Why should we accept sadness when we control our happiness in life and those who have an influence on the happiness in our life.

Happiness is an experience and emotion that everyone is entitled to, discovering the way to happiness in your life takes one step. That step is quite frankly to 'just do it'. If you hate your job, leave, find what makes you happy, why should we live our existence pleasing others or living the lives we were taught to lead. Although for many people this may not be as simple as it seem's there is always a way to work around it. You deserve to be happy and to live a life full of memories and experiences. When the end of our time on this earth comes, no longer do we appreciate the expensive jewellery or the lavish car that we received as a gift, we remember the memories. The very day you received the jewellery and the emotion you felt. It is not the materialistic possessions in life that we remember, it is the memories that come with it. So why not live a life of memorable moments, save and go to the incredible destination that you've been dreaming of for years upon years, turn the dreams that you once thought would never happen into a reality.

Happiness of those around you plays such a significant role, yet day in day out we ignore the simple opportunities to inject happiness into others days. Simply hold a door open for a stranger, compliment someone on something you'd usually glance at briefly and internally appreciate. I'm not a believer of alway's putting others before yourself however, you will find that providing those around you with happiness in the simplest forms changes your mood. Such a small action can go such a long way. Sadly, many of us tend to forget this in the 21st century that has been infiltrated with the poison of 'how many instagram likes can  I get' or 'If i get the new iPhone will people envy me'. Impressing those around us is nothing compared to brightening the lives of those around us.  One of the most important purposes of our lives is to live life, which I believe is found in happiness. A life without happiness isn't living.

And lastly, the poisonous relationships in our lives. We're programmed to lust what is no good for us. We hold onto the poisonous relationships in our lives as we worry of crumbling without them. In reality we fear the thought of becoming our own person with purpose, without this person regardless of the relationship between the two. To love yourself is one of the most important things in my opinion, you should never rely on someone else or allow them to effect your ability to love yourself. Learn to appreciate and enjoy company, not depend.

Keeping On Top Of Things

                                                                Keeping on top of things 

 I know it's been a very long time since my last post, however I hope to be back posting twice a week at least from now onwards, I think you'll find this post relates to my absence! Keeping on top of things in life has previously been bane of my life, however after taking a step back and doing these simple things, it’s helped me hugely! I hope these 8 tips can help you just as much they've helped me to make lif9e that littlest me stress free!

• List making  -I often find that i get stressed out when things pile up as i'm constantly losing track of what I need to do and it just becomes too overwhelming. I find it easiest to make a to do list in order of priority, this will help you enormously with managing everything in life!

• Having a stress free environment - for many of you may it be homework, essays or even work related tasks, If you’re working  environment is cluttered and dull its easy for your mind to wonder from the task you started with begin with. try brightening up your room, even simply clearing your desk, and opening a window and your curtains can boost your attitude and productivity that little bit more!

• Give yourself a reward -this may seem silly however i find that allowing myself an hour of wasting time on social media or even ordering a dominos after I've ticked off a few things from the list gives me motivation. If you know that you're working towards something it motivates you to complete the task.

• Rid of distractions - this seems liken obvious one to simply jus place your phone in another room meaning you’re less likely to be distracted by that, most of you like myself are too lazy to travel the whole few metres to the next room to grab your phone I'm guessing.

• Listen to music - I’m aware that for many people this can be distracting but for some people it just works for them. I find that listening to upbeat music keeps me in a positive mood when completing tasks.

• Tell other people - This is something so simple that not many people think to do. By telling other people that you need to stay focused for importst tasks , such as friends or family,  they can help to ensure that you're not distracted by leaving you be for an hour or so.

• don’t leave it all to the last minute - I know we’re all guilty of this, I am myself, it’s so easy to leave all important tasks until the last minute, however this only leads to stress and poor quality within whatever yore doing! spread your list throughout the week and make achievable for youself, you're only human!

• don’t restrict! Don’t refuse yourself time to socialise or have fun when you’re not busy, Yes there are important tasks in life but when you get time to yourself, spend it wisely and have soe fun and relax!