- Surround yourself with other happy people
- Smile when you mean it
- Cultivate resilience
- Try to be happy
- Be mindful of the good
- Appreciate simple pleasures
- Devote some time to giving
- Let yourself lose track of time
- Nix smalltalk for deeper conversations
- Spend money on other people
- Make it a point to listen
- Uphold in-person connections
- Look on the bright side
- Value a good mixtape
- Unplug
- Get spiritual
- Make exercise a priority
- Go outside
- Spend time on the pillow
- LOL
- Walk the walk
This is a solid list. I would add meditation.
My sister asked me to speak at her wedding over the weekend and I talked about the pursuit of happiness. Sometime in my late teens, I made the conscious decision to work at being happy for the rest of my life. Make no mistake. It takes work. Some of that work takes the form of adversity and a lot of it won’t yield results immediately, but eventually it does. I continue to work every day to be a better, happier person.
