When you feel lost in life, these
habits may be transformative for you. Adopting habits of successful people, of
happy people, of people who are fulfilled in their daily activities is one way
that you can find new meaning and redefine your life. It is not enough to just
live your life – you need to take an active role in your life. Participate in
your life and take tangible steps in bettering your life. These nine habits,
from TIME,
could truly prove to be transformative in your life if you adopt them.
1) Volunteer
Zig Ziglar has famously said, “You
can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people
get what they want.” This holds truest when it comes to volunteering. If you
are not satisfied with your life, or can’t seem to get over feeling down, it
might be time for you to get up and go help somebody else. Helping other people
helps us. Give it a try.
2) Embrace your emotions
If you’re sad, it’s okay to be upset
for awhile. “We’re meant to feel happiness, fear, sorrow, anger, disappointment,
jealousy, passion, love… the full spectrum.” Without all of these emotions,
life is a dull place. Experience the emotions when they come at you. If you
don’t, they won’t just go away. We are meant to experience the full range of
emotions and so allowing yourself to experience them will help you deal with
situations and move past the emotions surrounding them. Otherwise, they will
most likely continue to crop up when you want to deal with them least.
3) Count your blessings
You are blessed. Remember that.
“There’s always someone out there in circumstances far worse than yours.”
Remember this when you need to pick yourself up and move on in life… otherwise,
you’ll be stuck in a rut. Sometimes you need to just take a step back and
appreciate your own life and count your own blessings to realize you really are
going to be okay.
4) Cherish your loved ones
It’s your loved ones who will be the
ones who will pick you up when you’re feeling down. Cherish your loved ones.
Remind them how much you care about them and remember how important their own
needs and emotions are so that you can be there for them as well. These are the
people who are there for you, so you need to get into the habit of letting them
know that you appreciate that.
5) Judge less, accept more
If it isn’t your life, you don’t
have to be responsible for what happens in it. Remember, “Everyone has a story,
a battle of some sort, that no one else knows about.” Let other people fight
their fights and if it doesn’t interfere with your daily work… don’t let it get
to you. Don’t waste negative energy judging the actions of other people who you
don’t control..
6) Take care of your body
When you meditate or exercise or eat
healthy (or all three), you are giving yourself the opportunity to be a better,
happier person through wellness. Wellness is important in finding happiness
because when you take care of your body, your mind will be in a better place.
Give yourself the time to relax. Sleep enough, but don’t waste your days
sleeping to pass the time. Remember balance in your life.
7) Make lists
Organization and focus are vital to
any person’s success. When you feel lost in life, making lists and focusing on
goals will help you to find a path out of that place of loss. Writing down your
goals and aspirations will allow you to step forward and find a path to
achievement. Without lists, you might not know where you want to go and you may
end up continuously walking aimlessly in circles.
8) Find an outlet
Music, writing, exercise… find
something that can help you blow off the steam. “Embracing your emotions is
important, but releasing those emotions is just as important.” Be sure to give
yourself ample opportunity to release the pent-up emotions that you have or
they will continue to eat away at you on the inside.
9) Live with your heart and your
head
Follow your dreams, but don’t act
without reason. “Life is short. Don’t waste your time on mistakes that could’ve
been easily prevented by thinking twice and having an honest conversation with
yourself.” The bottom line is that you need to be realistic with your goals and
abilities and you need to re-think things. If you’re financially unstable – you
probably need to follow your head a little more than your heart to realize you
can’t book a week-long vacation. However, you might be able to take the day off
of work and relax a little bit at home.
From: Time Magazine
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