not getting the right amount. Getting enough sleep replaces the energy stores that you drained during the day. If you fail to refill that, then you’re running on a deficit the next day.
Sometimes the unhappiness in our personal lives or the work stress will prevent a good night’s sleep. It’s a vicious circle, because a lack of sleep contributes to the same issues. If you’re not sleeping enough, start by examining your sleep habits. Are you getting to bed early enough? Are you sleeping in a cool room with no distractions? Is your bedding comfortable?
If your sleep hygiene is good, but you’re still tired, you might go see your doctor. He may prescribe melatonin to see if that helps you get (and stay) asleep. Or he might have you participate in a sleep study.
Make sure you get to the root of the issue, because sleep is one health habit that will interfere in every part of your life, making you miserable – and possibly making you take out your frustrations on others.
Make Exercise and Eating Right a Priority
Having a daily habit of exercising can create happiness. When you exercise, your body releases endorphins or the feel good hormones that can lift your mood. When you exercise every day – even if it’s just going for a walk around the block at work or at home – you help improve the way your organs can do their jobs.
You make it easier for them to function. You also create more mental alertness in your brain when you exercise, because you increase the way that your organs can get the oxygen that they need.
Not getting enough oxygen can negatively affect your organs – and that includes your brain. Without the right amount of oxygen, it can impair your ability to think and to work through ideas, to attain goals and to get done what you want to get done each day. But when you exercise, you create a way for your whole body to benefit – and this produces a sense of happiness. Making sure that you eat right can go a long way toward creating happiness and success in your life, too.
When you eat the wrong kinds of food, it can have an impact on how you feel physically and how you feel mentally. For example, there are certain foods that zap your energy. When you eat them, you feel sluggish after your energy levels crash. If you eat a lot of foods that are high on the glycemic index (measures how a carbohydrate-containing food raises blood glucose,) you’ll experience fatigue. This will affect your performance because the tiredness will make it harder for you to concentrate.
Fatty foods, sugary foods and high carb foods should be eaten in moderation. Think of food as your body’s fuel to propel you through the day where you can get the most done on your task list.
Dress Successfully Every Day
The way that you dress affects your self-esteem and can make you feel less confident. Wearing clothes that are ill fitting or unflattering can affect your happiness.
You can even feel anxious or depressed. The clothing that you wear presents an image to the world – but the most important image is the one that you see. If you’re someone who battles self-esteem and confidence issues, wearing clothes that feed into that will subtract from your happiness.
You can try to experiment. Wear a pair of worn out sweatpants and a baggy shirt out in public. Don’t take the time to style your hair. Then go out wearing a nice outfit with your hair attractively styled. You’ll notice a difference in the way that you walk and act. When you dress like it doesn’t matter, it will change how you see yourself. But more than that, it changes how you’ll handle what you have to do that day.
You won’t feel your sharpest because the clothes affect you mentally. You don’t have to spend a lot of money to dress for success. What a lot of people don’t realize is that dressing for success isn’t just referring to looking the part. It’s referring to internal feelings, too. When you dress for success, you feel happier. You feel like a success and then your actions will follow those feelings. Make it a habit every day to dress in clothes that make you feel good about yourself.
If you’re working online and having to present yourself to an audience via video, or meeting with people in person, dressing for success can help present a more professional persona, which can boost your sales, in turn, making you happier!
Don’t try to implement a bunch of new daily habits all at once. Build slowly. It takes awhile for a new habit to take root, so don’t beat yourself up if you’re slow to implement them on a routine basis. It takes a few weeks to get with the program, but you’ll start to notice positive changes and that will motivate you to continue each and every day.
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