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12 Easy Ways To Improve Your Mood in Less than a Minute

Post author By Ally
Post date October 3, 2020
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If you’re feeling a bit blue, you might be surprised to hear that are lots of ways to lift your mood in less than a minute.

Skeptical? Try these and see!

# 1 Put some drops of lavender and orange essential oils in a diffuser.

These oils have been shown to help with anxiety and to promote calmness and positivity.

# 2 Have a snack.

A handful of nuts or a square of dark chocolate will send endorphins flooding into your brain and lift your mood fast.

# 3 Get some sunshine.

Go outside and get some fresh air and some sunshine, Studies have shown that people who have significant exposure to light have less depression, fewer sleep problems and are even more productive. If you can’t make it outside, go and look out of a window.

# 4 Go for a walk.

Even walking around the block will help to lift your heart rate and energy levels.

# 5 Close your eyes and focus on your breath.

Breathe in and out deeply three times. Focused breathing lowers your blood pressure and calms the mind.

# 6 Lift your shoulders up to your ears and then let them drop.

Do this three times and feel the tension ebb away. It’s easy to hold onto a lot of tension and stress without realizing it.

# 7 Go into the stairwell or the restroom.

If you’re feeling nervous before an interview or presentation, take a break and find somewhere like the stairwell or bathroom and breathe! Breathing in, open your arms wide, breathing out give yourself a big hug. It’s almost impossible to do this without smiling.

# 8 Smile!

Smile and make eye contact with a colleague or the guy in the coffee shop or the person serving you at the deli. The physical act of using your smile-muscles can genuinely make you feel happy. And it’s contagious. Chances are you’ll make them smile too and improve their day.

# 9 Stand up straight

Lift your head and throw your shoulders back. Adopt a Wonder Woman or Superman pose and feel the change in your energy.

# 10 Make a cup of tea or coffee

A cup of tea or coffee will instantly lift your mood. You probably know that caffeine is a stimulant, but even low or no caffeine hot drinks will give you a boost or calm you down whether it’s chamomile or green tea, a chai latte or hot water and lemon.

# 11 Listen to music that you love.

You can choose custom mood music, or play your old favorites. Music has been shown to have a powerful effect on mood.

# 12 Ask for a hug.

Probably not from your boss, but a family member or friend would love to give you the instant comfort of an embrace.

Mindset/Strenghts Personal Growth

Personal Growth: Finding Things You Need To Work On

Post author By Ally
Post date October 3, 2020
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Personal growth is the process of bettering and developing yourself and is something to engage in throughout your life.

How does a person figure out what parts of their life that they need to work on? Everyone has some part of like they need or want to improve. It’s one thing to want to improve some part of life. It’s another thing to actually do it.

How do you go about making a change in your life? Especially if you have spent most of your life up to this point just living day to day?

Do you ever think about the things in your life that you would really like to change?

Finding things, you need to work on is not as complicated as we make it.

Firstly, start where you are.

Project You

An important skill as an adult is self-development. Self-mastery, and learning how to be competent at activities of daily living are only the beginning. Beyond those skills that help you advance in your career and passions are there for the taking. Tap into your own motivation and drive to find the path to elevate yourself beyond the status quo. You are your own self-development project. You are the boss, the architect, and the quality control team.

Start With A List

No really. Make a list of what YOU think you need to work on. Then pick one and create plan of tasks to take on one at a time. Do this once a month. Some of your goals will change. Some won’t matter anymore. Some new items will pop up. There is nothing more satisfying than marking off a goal you have accomplished.

Treat Yourself

Making progress is motivating. Reaching milestones lights the fire to keep going. Reward yourself for progress along the way. Rewards don’t have to be extravagant. They could be as simple as watching a favorite movie or treating yourself to a favorite take-out meal. A small treat after hard work, and reaching a goal is a great way to motivate yourself to stay on track and keep going. Celebrate that progress.

Network

Share your goals and vision with like-minded individuals. This can be friends, supportive family, or even social media groups. You don’t have to all be in the same physical location to support each other. Sharing highs, lows, successes, and failures are a great way to gain insight and comradery on your journey of personal growth. You are not alone in your desire for change.

Revise, Regroup, And Reframe

If it’s broke, fix it. Don’t be inflexible about your methods. When you are working on personal growth you have to be open-minded and a little flexible. Sometimes the best plans fail. It’s ok. Nothing has to be perfect. You have a lifetime to work on improving yourself and reaching goals. If a plan needs to be adjusted make the change. Then get started again right away.

Expand Your Mind

Personal improvement takes time and commitment. It certainly cannot be achieved in a single day. This journey is a process. The change is gradual. There are many ways to create a growth mindset in your life. Browse social media, read self-help books, or psychology books, study goal setting, attend conferences, and listen to podcasts to open your mind up to new ways of personal growth.

These are just some of the tips and tools to help you on the journey to personal growth. Life is an ever-changing journey. At different stages in life, your goals and perspectives may change.

Keep going in the process for self-knowledge, self-mastery, and personal improvement. This is one aspect of living a fulfilling and balanced life.

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Gratitude – It’s All About Choices

Post author By Ally
Post date September 12, 2020
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How you feel – how happy you are, how stressed you are, even how well you sleep – may seem like it’s out of your hand, but it is actually a choice you make.

You can choose to be grateful for what you have and happiness follows. Or you can choose to focus on what you’re lacking, who has wronged you, and what’s not going your way.

And guess what? You’ll feel miserable. You may blame others, circumstances, or fate for your unhappiness. But at the end of the day it’s all about you and the choices you make. You choose happiness or misery.

Making The Right Choices

How can you make sure you make the right choices throughout life? One of the simplest ways to ensure you live a happy and fulfilled life is to focus on gratitude. Of course that’s easier said than done.

You get upset when your friend stands you up on your lunch date and that’s okay. How you choose to move forward from here is what will make the difference.

You can choose to dwell on the slight you think your friend gave you. The more you think about it, the more angry you feel. Instead of having lunch at the new restaurant you were looking forward to trying, you get back into your car, drive home and let it ruin your day.

That’s a choice. Now let’s look at a different one.

Making Different Choices

Same scenario. Your friend stands you up. You’re disappointed and maybe even a little mad. You take a deep breath, let those negative feelings go and make a choice based on gratitude.

What can you find in this situation that you can be grateful for? Maybe you’ve been wishing for some quiet alone time so you can hear yourself think.

Maybe there’s a store you’ve wanted to check out or a movie you’ve wanted to see for a while and this is the time to do it. Maybe there’s an old friend you’ve been meaning to visit.

Or maybe you’ll simply enjoy a good meal by yourself and grab some takeout for your spouse on the way out the door.

Instead of heading home angry, you’re going home grateful for these few special hours you carved out for yourself. And who knows. Maybe you talk to your friend later that evening and find out that she had a family emergency that caused her to miss your lunch date.

How guilty would you feel then about the anger you let yourself feel towards her? And how guilty would she feel for having ruined your day? Instead, focusing on gratitude and making the best of the situation, you created happiness for yourself. If you ask me, that’s some sort of super power.

We’re all hardwired to see the negative first and to put more emphasis on it than than the positive.Start seeing the glass half full instead of half empty and be grateful for it, and see if it changes your life!

Do you tend to see the glass half empty rather than half full, I’d love to help! Book a free clarity call with me now and I’ll share a positive psychology intervention to help get you feeling more grateful.

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