Accelerate your Happiness with these 14  Steps

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1. Message Your Family and Friends Often
It’s so easy to let our social and familial lives slide down into a small corner of our lives in favor of our work lives. Because of our goals and “responsibilities” we’ve been taught that it’s okay to focus on staying “busy”.
Yet, strong relationships have been shown in numerous studies, to be the strongest predictors of life satisfaction. When you express yourself with a couple of different friends every week, you give yourself the best chance of being happy.
Life then doesn’t seem like it’s all about this solitary pursuit, but more like an experience, you’re cultivating to the benefit of everyone around you.
Based on the longest study on happiness by a group of Harvard researchers, a major finding was that the quality of your relationships — determine the quality of your happiness. According to positive psychology, that means you’re likelier to move in the right direction in every other area of your life.

2. Laugh Whenever You Can 
Based on a whole library of research documented by Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage, people who laugh often are happier, and likelier to achieve more in their lifetimes. As children, we used to laugh hundreds of times per day. As adults, that number got w...

Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - February 2, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Samy Felice Tags: confidence featured happiness internet culture time management doyourbest growth pickthebrain productivity tips self growth self improvement Source Type: blogs