@Daria 24 April 2022

Tips For a Happier Life Date: Saturday. 23rd of April, 2022. I'm happy today. Despite sleeping really late as usual, I was able to sleep in till 12pm! I was wondering why my younger brother was disturbing me and asking me to wake up and do some things for him and also why my mum was asking why I was still asleep. I thought the time was 8am at most. It was when I checked the time that I realised it was 12pm. I had slept around 4.30am the night (or morning rather) before that was why I slept in. I also got to reconnect with a close friend and that was really cool! Today, we'll be talking about happiness. In life, our ultimate goal is mainly to attain peak happiness. Whether we are striving for success, personal or career growth, healthy relationships etc, the end game is usually happiness. We are always in the pursuit of happiness and seeking new ways to attain it. This is why human goals are unending because when we reach a new height, we seek the next best thing. We sometimes don't know when to stop and just want to keep doing more to achieve peak happiness. Happiness can actually be attained through both the simple and the grand things. We can experience little bits of happiness in our daily lives and also experience happiness in a grand scale when something big or long term happens to us. With this, I'll be writing about some of those things that can help us live a happier life. **Eat Right and Exercise** Sometimes, when the issue of exercise, food and eating right is mentioned, people's thoughts go to weight loss or weight gain, but eating good and nourishing food will keep our body good and leave us in the right frame of mind. It is recommended to eat a balanced diet, drink enough water and also exercise often. Your body will have the necessary energy needed and you will be more healthy. **Practice Self-care** A lot of times, we get too obsessed with facing our careers, studies, personal lives etc that we don't find time to take care of ourselves. At times, we even feel guilty for indulging in selfcare because we feel we don't deserve it or is uneccessary but that shouldn't be so. Selfcare is necessary to keep both our mind and body healthy and happy. It helps us to relieve stress and be able to keep up with the demands of the world. **Filter News and Information** We live in a world where negative news makes headlines than the positive makin5it seem like nothing good is happening. The media puts out those news because they drive traffic as people always want to know what is going on in their neighbourhood but exposure to negative news can affect how we see the world whether consciously or subconsciously. It affects our interactions with the world and makes us pessimistic and too expectant of negative things. Instead of enjoying our lives, we live in fear and paranoia. So, it is best to avoid too much negative news and focus on the positive. **Good Company** Just as mentioned above, it is important to distance ourselves from negativity and it is necessary to surround ourselves with positivity. We have to ensure that we have good people around us. People who will cine through when you need them. People who will support you. People who brings out the best in you rather than bring you down. **Therapy** Everyone needs a therapist if you ask me, but of course, I'm not a therapist so I can't say for sure. Life keeps coming at us in different ways and there are times when it seems like things are just going bad and we can't help but be unhappy. Therapy helps us unpack what we are going through and figure out the steps to make things better in order to achieve happiness. Thanks a lot for reading, share your thoughts!