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“Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
Benjamin Franklin
One very common question I've gotten over the years goes something like this:
“I always get nervous before a date/meeting/social gathering and that holds me back from being my true and best self and from doing and getting what I want. What can I do to overcome this?”
This is an issue that used to hold me back in the past and I've more experience with it than I would have ever wanted.
Back when I was still single I often got quite nervous before a date.
And before that, when I didn't have a date at all in a lon...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - May 8, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Habits Happiness People Skills Personal Development Source Type: blogs
10 Things to Do on Days When You Just Want to Give Up
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Some days are light and filled with inspiration. Some days are simply routine.
And on some days you may think to yourself: “I give up”.
You may feel like just giving up on…
Your new habit of working out or eating healthier.
Your own small business or blog because you haven’t had the results you expected or wanted.
Truly feeling better about yourself.
Dating...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - May 1, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Happiness Personal Development Relaxation Success Source Type: blogs
12 Powerful Ways to Reduce and Calm Your Anxiety
Today I want to share 12 tips that have been really useful for me to calm my anxiety in everyday life.
Because if you’re anything like me you have been there many times.
You’re sitting in a waiting room. Or just waiting somewhere.
Soon it will begin.
Your leg is starting to shake nervously. Your hands are starting to sweat and maybe your mouth feels a bit dry.
Your thoughts are becoming jumbled, it is hard to focus and to think as clearly as you usually do.
Maybe you have an important test in school. A job interview. An appointment with your doctor or dentist.
A date that you are looking forward to but at the same tim...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - April 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Habits Happiness Health Personal Development Productivity Relaxation Success Source Type: blogs
21 Quotes to Help You to Stop Overthinking (+ My 5 Favorite Tips)
One of the most common things that gets people stuck in inaction and in not doing what they deep down would like to is the destructive habit of overthinking.
You can overthink a small problem or challenge until it looks like a huge and undefeatable monster.
Or overthink something positive in your life until it doesn’t look so positive anymore.
And sometimes you may even be zapping a simple moment happening here right now out of all it’s joy and magic by overanalyzing and dissecting it.
I’ve done all three of those things. All too many times.
So in the first part of this week’s post I’d like to share 21 of the qu...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - April 17, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Source Type: blogs
21 Small Ways to Make Life Simpler
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”Leonardo da Vinci
“The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I love simplifying my life. It makes me more effective and life less stressful. It makes me calmer and happier.
But where do you start? Or continue if you are already on your way?
In this week's article I’d like to share 21 small habits that help me to live a simpler life.
Pick one of these to get started and keep doing it until it sticks and becomes just another normal part of your life.
1. Breathe.
When stressed, lost ...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - April 10, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Source Type: blogs
How to Say No: 10 Powerful Tips
How do you stop saying yes when you honestly just want to say no?
Well, it’s not easy. I used to have a lot of trouble with it.
And so I’d become frustrated and angry with myself and others who had asked me about a favor or help.
While at the same time working on someone else’s goals instead of my own and wasting too much time and energy on that.
Things simply had to change.
So I set out a handful of years ago to learn how to become better at saying no.
Here’s 10 of the best tips, habits and strategies I learned.
1. First, keep in mind why you’re saying no.
When you are about to say no then remember why you are ...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - April 3, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Happiness People Skills Personal Development Source Type: blogs
It ’s My Birthday (So You Get 30% Off on 5 of My Courses for the Next 48 Hours)
Today is my 39th birthday.
And I want to do something fun to celebrate that and to thank you for all your support and the thousands of kind emails and comments over this past year.
So you can get 5 of my digital and downloadable courses and guides at a 30 percent discount for the next 48 hours.
This offer is only available until 2.00 p.m EDT (that’s 18.00 GMT) Friday the 29th of March. And it is the only discount I’ll be offering on my products this year.
I'm off to celebrate a bit now, have a wonderful day and check out the information below to learn more about the courses and guides.
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You can get a...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - March 27, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Source Type: blogs
High Self-Esteem: 15 Habits for a Positive Self-Image
One of the most common challenges people email me about is low self-esteem.
And how to improve your self-worth to become a person of high self-esteem.
So this week I’d like to share 15 simple habits that have helped me to improve my self-esteem and create a much more positive self-image (and sustain it even when times are tough).
Now, why is it so important to build and maintain high self-esteem?
Life becomes simpler.
When you love yourself – or at least like yourself a whole lot better – then you’ll stop creating so many problems in your life and you’ll magnify challenges less.
You’ll be a lot less likely to ...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - March 21, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Source Type: blogs
101 Short Quotes and Sayings about Life
Sometimes you don’t have to use many words to get your point across.
In fact, keeping it short and simple can make what you’re saying extra powerful and memorable.
This is of course nothing new.
It’s something that’s many of the wisest people in history have kept in mind over thousands of years.
And today I want to share some of that sharp and quick wisdom.
This is 101 short and inspirational quotes about life and on how to make it a good, happy, loving and successful one from the past 2400 years.
I hope these quotes will give you a boost when you need it the most.
Short and Meaningful Quotes about Happiness
“Th...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - March 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Source Type: blogs
10 Simple Ways to Spread the Optimism and Positive Energy Starting Today
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill
Optimism.
It can turn a situation that looks negative or bleak into an opportunity or something to learn from.
It can replace the draining thoughts of pessimism with something that will create more positive energy and enthusiasm again.
And it can help you to jump over obstacles, to keep moving when you fall or stumble and to not give up just because you have had a couple of temporary setbacks.
So not just adding more of it to your own life but to the lives of the people in your world too is a...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - March 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Happiness Personal Development Source Type: blogs
How to Let Go: 5 Steps to Move On and Feel Less Pain
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”
Herman Hesse
I often write about finding lightness in life.
It can come from an unhurried but effective day at work or from uncluttering your home.
Or from learning how to let go and move on in life.
Learning to let go of a relationship, of something else in your past, of something that is just an unimportant distraction or of trying to control what you cannot control can free up huge amounts of the energy and the time you have to use for something better and more fulfilling.
It is not always easy. But it can be life-changing.
In t...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - February 21, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Habits Happiness Personal Development Relaxation Success Source Type: blogs
How to Start a Successful Blog (a New and Free 7-day Course)
A couple of the most common questions I get via email are not about self-esteem or procrastination.
They're about starting a blog, how to grow your readership and how I make an income from my blog.
For the past few weeks I've worked on a project that's been on my own to-do list for too long and I've put together a focused 7-day course that answers those questions.
Click here to learn more about the free How to Start a Successful Blog Course and to enroll (Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog)
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - February 13, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Source Type: blogs
How to Get Over Rejection: 9 Habits That Have Helped Me
“Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don’t base your self-esteem on their opinions.”
Harvey Mackay
In this week’s article I'd like to look back into the past.
Back to the time when I was single.
It was a period when I faced rejection a lot of the time.
Which was actually a step forward for me. Because before that I spent much of my time totally avoiding situations where I could be rejected.
But still, it hurt. So I needed to learn how to handle and get over rejection.
And today I'd like to share 9 habits and reminders that helped me with that and still helps me to this day whe...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - February 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Happiness People Skills Personal Development Success Source Type: blogs
How to Take Action: 12 Habits that Turn Dreams into Reality
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”
Napoleon Hill
What makes dreams into reality?
I believe that perhaps the most important – and an often ignored – thing is simply taking action.
I used to be really bad at it when I was younger.
Back then I usually got stuck.
I got stuck in my dreams about what I wanted to do.
I got stuck in analysis paralysis due to my habit of overthinking things. I got stuck in procrastination and in pessimism.
Things have changed a lot since then though. I have ad...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - January 30, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Habits Personal Development Success Source Type: blogs
6 Ways to Keep the Energy and Optimism Up During the Dark and Cold Winter
“In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
Anne Bradstreet
Up here in Sweden the winter is dark, cold and often comes with a mix of rain and snow.
And spring is still far away.
It is not easy to keep the energy and optimism up like in the bright and warm summer days.
So today I’d like to share 6 habits I use that make it a lot easier to stay positive even throughout this dark and often grey season.
1. Find one of your...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - January 17, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Habits Happiness Personal Development Success Source Type: blogs
