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3 Simple Ways to Improve Your Mood Right Now
I sometimes write about how a good start to your day often leads to having a good day in general. A social, an energetic or a productive start sets the context for your day. But on some days you may not get a good start for some reason. Maybe you slept badly. Or the maybe grey skies and cold autumn rain is dragging your energy down. Or you might have lost that positive momentum during a hard first part of the day and after lunch you feel tired, low or lost in a somewhat sad or uninspired funk. What to do then? Is that day lost and should you just aim for a better day tomorrow? Well, today isn't over yet. Maybe you can sti...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - November 14, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Source Type: blogs

The Top 125 Inspirational Sayings and Quotes of All Time
Today I’d like to simply share what I think are some of the most inspirational sayings and quotes of all time. A distilled and concise collection packed with maximum motivational power from the people who walked this earth before us (and some from people who are still here). I hope these quotes and sayings will help you when you’re having a rough day or week. When you need to renew that motivation to keep moving towards your goals and dreams. Or when you just need a new perspective on a situation in your own life no matter if that’s at work, in a relationship or perhaps with your health or personal finances. This is...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - November 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Source Type: blogs

How to Become an Optimist: 3 Daily Habits To Help You Get Started
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Winston Churchill “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” Anais Nin One of the most common questions people ask me via email is how to become more of an optimist. So this week I'd simply like to share three habits that can help you to get started with that. I use these myself just about every day to stay optimistic in pretty much any situation. It may sometimes take a while before I find an optimistic thread of thought but these three habits usually help me to do it. 1. Ask yoursel...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - October 30, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Happiness Personal Development Success Source Type: blogs

87 Inspirational Quotes for Work (Motivation to Work Hard and Smart)
We are once again at the start of a workweek. So I thought this would be a good time to share 87 of the most inspirational work quotes. Quotes that will motivate you, help you to focus and work smarter and also reduce the stress and pressure you may feel at work (or in school). These quotes have helped me many times to re-ignite my own motivation on a rough or bad day and to find a calmer and less stressed focus so I could keep working consistently towards my own goals and dreams. I hope they will help you to do the same. Motivational Quotes for Work “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays d...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - October 14, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Source Type: blogs

145 Words of Encouragement (Uplifting and Positive Quotes)
Sometimes we just need a bit of support and help to feel and do better again. So today I’d like to share a collection of the best words of encouragement that I've found over the years. 145 supportive, kind and encouraging quotes that will help to: Lift you or a loved one up on a bad day (or a week when life is hard and you need to stay strong). Encourage you to take a leap and chance into something better. Kick-start your personal growth if you're in a rut. Direct your thoughts and emotions into a more positive, motivated and centered headspace once again. Words of Encouragement for a Bad Day (or Week) “What lies be...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - September 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Source Type: blogs

20 Small Ways to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone
“Get out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.” Brian Tracy I’m a big fan of doing the unusual thing. Sometimes in big ways. Often in small and daily ways to mix things up. Why? Because this habit is a simple and relatively easy way to: Get out of your comfort zone. And if you change your perspective on yourself from someone who sticks to the old and comfortable all the time to someone who likes to mix things up then it will feel more natural and easier to break out of your comfort zone when comes to bigger things too. Because this ha...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - September 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Habits Happiness Personal Development Success Source Type: blogs

How to Deal with Disappointment: 12 Helpful Steps
When you get disappointed then it can hurt. Sometimes a bit. Sometimes a lot. It can drag you down into a negative funk for days or even weeks. But if you learn how to deal with that disappointment in a healthier and more helpful way then it can be less a lot less scary and painful and actually a springboard or learning experience for further personal growth. That’s at least been my experience in the past decade. And in this post I’ like to share 12 steps, tips and habits that I’ve learned over the years and that help me to both handle disappointment and to reduce the situations where I get disappointed in the first...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - September 4, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Source Type: blogs

80 Inspirational Education Quotes for Students and Teachers
Education is so important. Because it opens the mind and expands it. It allows you to improve your life in hundreds of ways. So in this post I'd like to share 80 of the most motivating and inspiring quotes on education of all time. Quotes both on what you learn in school but also on what you can learn for yourself in life. I hope you'll find them helpful no matter if you're a student that needs a boost of motivation or if you're a teacher of any kind that wants to inspire and make a change in your students lives. Education Quotes to Motivate Students “A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its origina...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - August 29, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Source Type: blogs

101 Monday Motivation Quotes (+ My 5 Favorite Tips for a Great Week)
Are you in need of some Monday motivation? If you’re perhaps tired, unmotivated and just reluctant to do anything and want a few more days of weekend right now then I have something that can help you. I’ve put together 101 of the most motivational quotes I’ve ever come across to give you a boost of inspiration as you start your Monday and week and maybe help you to find a change in perspective. That’s the first part of this post. In the second part I’ll share my own 5 favorite tips that I’ve used the most to overcome my own Monday blues and reluctance and to get my week off to a good and motivated start. Motiv...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - August 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Source Type: blogs

Don ’t Compare Your Life to Someone’s Highlight Reel
“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.” Lao Tzu Today I’d like to focus on a negative habit that creates insecurity within, erodes self-esteem and can make you feel quite unhappy with your own life. It’s something that has sprung up as we have moved a part of our lives on to the internet and social media. And that habit is to compare yourself and your life to other people’s highlight reels. What do I mean by that? That it’s so easy to start comparing your life to the lives of friends, old classmates or celebrities of all sizes as you each da...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - June 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Habits Happiness Personal Development Source Type: blogs

How to Get More Done with (a Lot) Less Stress: 12 Daily Habits
“Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” Albert Einstein “Think simple” as my old master used to say – meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.” Frank Lloyd Wright The daily work we do – in school, at work or in a business – can easily become overwhelming, ineffective and suck the energy and joy out of what you are doing. So how can you work in a lighter, simpler way that helps you to get more of what truly matters done in less time and with less stress? Let...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - June 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Productivity Relaxation Success Source Type: blogs

54 Ways to Save Money (and Reduce Your Financial Worries)
THIS POST CONTAINS AFFILIATE LINKS. DISCLOSURE PAGE Money. It’s probably the second biggest factor – after health issues – to cause stress, worries and negativity within. It has certainly been that for me during long periods. So this year I will from time to time write about dealing with financial stress. Not only because it can cause so much negativity. But also because healthier and more conscious money habits can help you to achieve many positive things in your life. For example, saving more money and doing it regularly each month will also allow you to put money into or towards your own goals such as: Paying o...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - June 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Source Type: blogs

101 Good Morning Quotes to Help You to Start Your Day Right
Today I’d like to share 101 timeless quotes that will help you to have a good and motivated morning. Because how you start your day tends to set the tone for the rest of the day. If you start your day with negativity and in a hurried and stressed state then that'll likely continue for the rest of the day and impact your work, relationships and overall quality of life that day. If you on the other hand start your day in a positive way with some uplifting reading or a fun conversation around the breakfast table and then get started with your most important task of your day as soon as you arrive at work then you’re setti...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - May 30, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Source Type: blogs

15 Simple Ways to Spread Happiness and Kindness Around You
“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.” Albert Schweitzer “A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.” Amelia Earhart A very simple way to spread more happiness in your own little world is through kindness. It's often an easy and quick thing you can do as you move through your daily life. But we sometimes forget about it. Or don’t remember how it can help us all. Three things that I like to keep in mind and that help me to try to be a ki...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - May 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Happiness Personal Development Source Type: blogs

How to Stop Catastrophizing: 7 Helpful Steps
One of the most destructive daily habits I carried with me for a long time and I think is a very common one for many people was the thought habit of catastrophizing. What is catastrophizing? This is when you build up a nightmare scenario of how everything could go totally wrong in some situation and imagine a big catastrophe in your mind. You may have a presentation tomorrow and your mind starts to pull up a scenario where you have left your notes at home, you make a fool of yourself, you are embarrassed in front the whole company and your boss yells at you for 20 minutes after the meeting. Scary stuff for sure. So how di...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - May 15, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Happiness Personal Development Relaxation Success Source Type: blogs