Lets break down the physical and the mental.
▪️ Physical
Happiness needs to be earned.
It is earned with correct actions that build your self esteem.
Any type of action that helps you to progress will build your self esteem and you'll be rewarded with happiness.
The brain loves searching for the fastest and easiest way to achieve it's goal.
The easiest and fastest ways are things that make you feel good for a short period of time; junk food, TV, video games, alcohol, drugs...
You have to focus on performing good habits and actions to feel happy and proud of yourself most of the time.
▪️Mental
The mental is a bit more tricky."
Because every person is different and there are many factors that contribute to happiness or unhappiness.
Some people have limiting beliefs that make it harder for them to feel happy.
"Life is difficult."
"People don't like me."
"I'm worthless."
"Nothing goes my way."
Focus - a lot of people focus on the negative of neutral situations.
They can get up in the morning completely healthy, with a roof over their heads, food on the table...
They feel terrible and they just got out of bed.
Now they turn on the TV and listen to The News (because you can't start your day without knowing how many people got killed in a car accident...)
"I'm so over with this day.."
Sounds familiar?
When it comes to the mentality, you have to take care of both aspects, the internal and external world.
Learn to react well to external situations, reframe them.
The external will always throw challenges at you, but you can train yourself to be mentally strong and overcome them.
Internal world - you need to rewire your brain differently.
• Be grateful often, appreciate even the small things.
• Reframe everything. Your thoughts, beliefs, past painful memories.
• Learn to handle different emotions well.
• Focus on the right things most of the time.
But for now, I don't want to overcomplicate it.
1. Make progress every day, avoid procrastinating as much as possible because it is the number one killer of your self esteem.
You do that by constantly reframing the negative and shifting your focus back to the positive, again and again.
Let me know if you have any questions, I'm here to help.
Remember, your happiness is 100% in your control.