7 Small Ways to Make This The Happiest Summer of Your Life

“Then followed that beautiful season… Summer… Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Summer is here in full bloom after what was, at least up here in Sweden, a long and cold winter and spring. So this week I’d like to share 7 small and simple tips that you can use to create a happier summer – and rest of the year – for yourself. 1. Go slow. You’ll be less stressed and you’ll enjoy all the smells, the sights and people in your summer even more. So slow down a bit and use all your senses to tap into what is happening in this moment around you and inside of you. 2. Say yes to the new. Go for something new. Expand your comfort zone in a small way. Or a bigger one. Go somewhere you haven’t been before. Take up a new hobby. Read a book or try eating something or doing something that isn't what the regular you would do. Few things add happiness so simply as finding a new thing you enjoy or may even love does. 3. Just do nothing at all. It is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that all time has to be booked up for some activity. Humans are however not robots and so that often leads to more stress and to little of the recharging that could have helped you to keep doing quality work during the fall and winter being done. So try doing nothing at all. Just go for a walk in the woods. Or sit by a lake or the ocean and take in your wor...
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