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Despite popular belief, it is possible to have the best day ever every single day. Achieving such a feat is accomplished by reevaluating the way you react to your environment and the ways you organize your day. Through these seven methods, you can go to bed each night knowing you’ve just had the best day ever — and that tomorrow will be the best day ever, too!
1. Place emphasis on your needs and wants.
Helping friends, family and your community is a great way to achieve a charitable, feel-good conscience, but in order to formulate the best day possible every day of the week, you’ll have to be relatively liberal in assessing your own needs and wants. What are you looking to achieve today? What would cause you to feel the most accomplished and fulfilled?
Explore the things that make you happy and the things that benefit you long-term. If helping others become happier, healthier or more accomplished individuals helps you too, great! At first, it may feel unfamiliar to place so much focus on yourself over others, but since you are the one attempting to achieve the best day ever, you’ll have to give yourself some extra love.
2. Practice mindfulness.
Mindfulness is a mental state achieved by focusing on every moment while calmly acknowledging and accepting one’s thoughts, emotions and bodily sensations. In the hustle-bustle of today’s society, it’s easy to become caught up in what needs to happen next, what happened yesterday and how it affects you today and how you can multitask to be as productive as possible right now.
However, refusing to place significant focus on the present moment prevents you from wholly enjoying life as it occurs. Practice mindfulness on a daily basis by regularly accepting your feelings, thoughts and environment without judgment.
As you eat, pay attention to the colors of your food, the flavors on your tongue, and the nutrients your body will begin to absorb after your meal. Avoid over-stimulating yourself during work or family time by putting away your tech devices and fully considering your surroundings, the people you’re with and the task at hand.
In an age when mindfulness has become so vitally important, there are an abundance of apps and websites that can help you practice mindfulness until you’re an expert at focusing on the present. Try Mindfulness Bell to help remind you to check-in to your emotions and bodily sensations at preset intervals, or Conscious to provide you with one mindfulness exercise daily.
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