How To Increase Your Happiness a Little Bit Every Day: 14 Ways

Today I’m going to share with you 14 alternative ways on how to increase your happiness.

Now if you’re anything like me, the daily grind, the ups and downs of life, the chaotic schedule – it all plays into what can feel like not the happiest time even if you’re pursuing your goals and doing everything you think you’re supposed to be doing.

Sometimes you just need a little extra boost to help you become a little bit happier. That’s what today is all about. Did you know, that 50% of your happiness is just genetically predetermined? You know those people who are just like beaming with happiness all the time like they’re just naturally like that 50% is just how you’re born.

The next 10-20% of your happiness is determined by life circumstances such as your age, marital status, how much money you have or make, other you know circumstances in your life that you know reflect where you’re at with everything.

And the last 30-40% percent of your happiness is determined by you. So you can in fact increase your happiness up a lot by doing certain things in your life to make yourself happier, and that’s where this list of 14 things that you can do to increase your happiness comes in. So let’s get started.

How To Increase Your Happiness

1. Spend money on experiences rather than things.

Research shows that you’re going to be much happier if you go on an adventure, take a small trip, do whatever it’s with your friends and spend money that way rather than buying another material item.

2. Practice gratitude.

I do this using my gratitude journal. I write down daily what I’m grateful for in the morning and at night this is only one way you can do it lots of alternative ways but find a way to incorporate practicing gratitude into your life and it will make you happier.

3. Incorporate meditation into your life

I know that this can be hard if you’re already really busy or it’s just something that sounds fully foreign to you but there are tons of ways that you can get started really easily.

For example, just looking on YouTube, incorporating meditation videos (1), or podcasts into your daily routine can increase your happiness because it will bring you right down to a more calm state and really present in your reality and this will make you happier.

4. Increase your exercise.

This gets your energy going, it’s scientifically proven to boost your mood and relieve stress, so increasing your exercise at least up to two to three times a week is an excellent way to increase your happiness.

5. Remake your morning routine.

Your morning routine is the time from when you’ve got up until the time you start your work whatever that’s whether it’s getting the children ready and going off to your day job outside the home.

So when you have your morning routine take an hour to two hours doing things that actually you want to do whether it’s reading, studying something, listening to podcasts, exercising, meditating, just enjoying coffee reading the news, just whatever it’s for you – accomplishing goals – do this during your morning routine so that you ensure you get done what’s most significant to you in the first part of your day and this will leave you much happier.

6. Make sure you get enough sleep.

This can go fully under the radar with regards to happiness but it’s really important for you and your health and your mood and your energy to ensure you got enough sleep at night and for you that might be six hours it might be eight hours it might be less or more everyone seems to be different, but whatever it’s for you ensure you get that much sleep every
night.

7. Focus on your long-term goals.

Sometimes the daily grind feels really mundane and perhaps even stressful but if you look at why you’re doing those daily things and what your long-term goals are it can help you refocus your mindset, so that you’re in fact appreciative of what you’re doing now and how hard you’re working, because you know, that it’ll pay off in the long run.

8. Commit to being happy and to have a good attitude

If you wake up every day and just let the world come at you with whatever is going on you might find yourself kind of reacting to everybody else’s needs and moods and you’re just going in every which direction.

Instead of doing that, wake up every day with a good attitude and say to yourself okay I’m gonna be happy today, my own internal happiness depends on it and that I’m going to have a good attitude for that reason irrespective of what happens today. And just doing that each day can certainly boost your mood and happiness over time.

9. Listen to inspiring podcasts.

I use my iTunes podcast app (2) and listen to tons of various podcasts that help encourage me on an everyday basis. This is probably the greatest ways to help me get out of a funk. I know if I’m sort of in my own head and not in the greatest mood, listening to a podcast will help me shift my mindset and just be happier all around.

It may take you a little bit to find what works for you but undergo different podcasts and see what you connect with and which ones make you happier. I highly recommend this tip.

10. Make sure you’re smiling.

Actually having like a default mood and attitude and reflection on your face that shows that you’re happy will in fact boost your mood. So, the more you’re smiling and the higher energy you have the more likely you are to radiate happiness and it will affect other people as well so ensure you have that smile on your face every day.

11. Spend time with your family and friends.

If you’re a high achiever otherwise you have a lot going on in your life this can in fact be hard for you, because it’s not necessarily one of your goals, so it can feel like wasting time.

Really, spending time with your family and friends is going to increase your happiness, because it’s going to provide you with that like love and connection that you need so much to be happy in life. Prioritize those quality relationships and put the time in with your family and friends.

12. Help someone else.

Oftentimes we get stuck in our own head, in our own problems and we don’t realize how much we are wasting our energy until we go out and do something for somebody else, and it really boosts our mood and helps us to feel better about our lives, and then you are also helping someone else at the same time.

13. Get outside.

Lots of times a nice walk, just getting some fresh air on your face, getting out into nature will increase your happiness particularly if you’re normally inside all day working.

14. Schedule time in your calendar for fun.

If you have a lot going on with your family, with your goals, with your job, with everything else, it can be hard to be sure that you really just take time for yourself to have fun. Do whatever it’s that you enjoy and that you have a good time doing, and ensure you put it in your calendar, so that you have fun and can relax, and that will boost your happiness.

If you’re like me, you’ll find that the more you focus on being happy the
happier you become just by the nature of putting effort into making your own
life happy.

I want to thank you for taking the time to read my article about how to increase your happiness . I sincerely hope its contents have been a good help to you.