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7 Quick Tips for Changing a Negative Mood
1. Change your environment, or leave the room.
2. Switch your thinking, or redirect your thoughts
3. Go outside and get some exercise
4. Listen to the music which usually lifts your mood
5. Look at the old photographs which always make you laugh
6. Text or call a friend who’s really going through tough times
7. Be nice to a stranger – play it forward – and be kind.
A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than lots of friends who only want your smile.
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How to be Amazing
1. Give more than is required
2. Learn as much as you can
3. Be strong and courageous
4. Speak and live your truth
5. Be true to your values
6. Resist mediocrity
7. Seek to inspire others
8. Love wholeheartedly.
I’ve got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts - you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn’t do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.
D.D. Barant
No-one is more treasured in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another.
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How to Stop Beating Yourself Up
1. Try to understand where it came from. Why do you demand so much of yourself? Do you have tendencies towards perfection or self-hatred? If so, where do these come from?
2. Practice self-compassion. Everyone deserves to be loved and understood, to be allowed to make mistakes, and to take the time to grow. Give that to yourself. Don’t attack and hurt yourself.
3. Deliberately focus on positive self-talk. Being negative, impatient, critical and overbearing becomes so automatic that we don’t realize it’s a habit. So, interrupt that habit and be kind and positive.
4. Decide not to compare yourself to others. We tend to judge ourselves by the people who excel, or have an easier life, or who face fewer obstacles. It’s not a level playing field so don’t compare yourself. Remember you ARE changing, and you have a lot to give.
5. Make a note of compliments and nice things people say – then pull it out and read it when you start to feel you’ve failed. Remind yourself that others see your value and worth … And others see the good in you, and want you to succeed.
7 Tips for Killing a Bad Mood
1. Make the decision to be happy anyway.
2. Fight the urge to give into your negative feelings.
3. Smile – and fake it till your make it.
4. Find something funny to laugh about.
5. Do something thoughtful for somebody else.
6. Move your body – and get some exercise.
7. Listen to some music that usually lifts your mood.
You’re in a relationship to be happy, to smile, to laugh, to make memories, to enjoy one another - and not to be constantly hurt and upset.
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Living with anxiety is like being followed by a voice. It knows all your insecurities and uses them against you.
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5 Important Choices
1. Choose to be thankful
2. Choose to see the good
3. Choose to be courageous and to try something new
4. Choose to forgive, and to let go of the past
5. Choose to move on, and to make the most of life.
You don’t know why you’re exhausted? You’re fighting a war inside your head every single day. If that’s not exhausting, I don’t know what is.
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In life, it’s important to know when to stop arguing with people and simply let them be wrong.
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How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others
1. Don’t listen to the voice inside your head that tells you that you are inadequate.
2. Don’t hang out with people who look for the flaws and can’t see the best in the people in their lives.
3. Recognise that each person is different and unique. There is no-one like you - and you have great attributes.
4. Take note of your efforts, and the progress you have made. You’ve already come far. You should celebrate that!
5. Appreciate others, and what you gain from them. Don’t see them as people who undermine you.
6. Remember that NO-ONE is perfect at all - and that other people struggle with the same stuff as well.
7. Go after what matters the most in this life: being loyal, and thoughtful, and caring, and kind.
Trust yourself. You have survived a lot. And you will survive whatever is coming.
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7 Quick Tips for Changing a Negative Mood
1. Change your environment, or leave the room.
2. Switch your thinking, or redirect your thoughts.
3. Go outside and get some exercise.
4. Listen to the music that usually lifts your mood.
5. Look at those old photographs that always make you laugh.
6. Text or call a friend who’s really going through tough times.
7. Be nice to a stranger – play it forward – and be kind.