TIME recently surveyed a range of happiness experts to discover their happiness habits. Here’s the list of habits they mostly did daily and weekly:
- Get seven or more hours of sleep a night
- Personal hobby (art, writing, music, cooking, reading, gaming)
- Exercise / play sports
- Spend time in nature
- Meditate
- Spend time with friends outside of office/professional setting
- Spend time with family outside of household
- Engage with support groups or therapist
- Pray
Simple, yes? Not easy, though. The not easy part comes in because one of the common themes for each habit is Spend Time. How you choose to allocate your time makes a key difference in how happy we are. Sometimes you don’t even have a choice. Responsibilities and obligations can rob you of choices. Such theft, leaves you with little time to buy your happiness.
Try and guard your time as best as you can. Then spend it on yourself and your happiness. You deserve it.
P.S. Here is the TIME piece: The Daily Habits of Happiness Experts, It provides more detail.
P.S.S. Will doing all these things guarantee your happiness? No, of course not. Good happiness habits are to happiness what good exercise habits are to fitness: they will work for many people, but not all. Like with any advice on the Internet, if it’s not working for you, see a professional or an expert and get the help you need.
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