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Don’t talk bad about people
You’ll feel bad afterwards and it doesn’t achieve anything. Look for the positive and talk about that (or say nothing).
Keep in touch with friends and family
Relationships are what matters and studies show that having strong relationships makes you happier — even if you’re an introvert. You can have all the stuff in the world. Your relationships are what are substantive. Take the time to work on them. One of the top five regrets of the dying is not spending enough time with family and friends.
I’ve often thought I could get through stressful periods by focusing all of my energy on getting stuff done or researching answers to problems. Sometimes, the best thing I could do, was pick up the phone and call someone who would make me laugh.
A study published in Psychological Science found that not only are relationships important to happiness but having more substantive conversations rather than idle chit chat played a role in increased happiness.
Don’t work too much
Let’s face it — there will always be too much work to do. Whether or not you answer those 50 emails won’t really matter down the line. Don’t look at going to your outings shirking work responsibilities. Look at not going as shirking what’s important.
Find meaningful work
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.
Teach someone
We can all teach something, even if it’s small, and teaching others makes most of us happy. Besides, sometimes the small things make the biggest difference.
It’s never the right time
Whether it’s changing jobs or pursuing your dream, the time is never right. Find a way to start small now. Take that small step to make progress and start making your dream a reality.
Baby steps towards life goals
Along the lines of the above suggestion, many people have really big life goals. Goals so big that work on the goals never gets started.
Break big dreams into small achievable steps, and then focus on taking one step at a time. The progress makes us happy. The small steps give us a chance to achieve our goals.
From there we can build a plan with many small steps to get from home food sales to owning a restaurant.
Live for today
Waiting for a day that is less busy is waiting for a day that will never come. Don’t put off what makes you happy.
Live true to yourself
So many people don’t live their dreams, because they do what someone else expects.
Don’t do something because of the job title or to make someone else proud. Do what you know is right for you.
“Prestige is a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you to work not on what you like, but what you’d like to like.” Paul Graham, Y-Combinator founder
