Don’t Worry Be Happy

The other day, a couple of us were talking about this school year and we all felt the same…we can’t seem to get our feet under us. Do you feel the same?

 When we feel stressed, our happiness suffers and so do all the people we touch on a daily basis.  It is easy to become discouraged and frustrated. And that kind of attitude is self-defeating. So, how can we overcome those feelings? 

 Change your attitude and perspective.  Sometimes we need to do something different to get us out of a funk. Here are some suggestions:

• Reach out and have lunch or call a friend who is always positive and let it rub off on you.  

• Find something motivational and hang it on your wall.  Read it over and over until you start to live it.

• Slow down.  When stressed we speed up everything, doing it wrong twice instead of right once.  A calm spirit is a happy spirit.

• Turn off TV shows where the entertainment is at someone else’s expense, mean spirited judgmental or violent. What you watch impacts how you feel.

• Watch something that makes you laugh: Babies laughing

• Leave the table where everyone is complaining, and sit with someone who is good at telling jokes. 

• Go for a walk or exercise.  It’s hard to be mad, frustrated, or stressed out about something when you're working hard.  

• Smile, even if you don’t feel like it. It changes how you feel and gets others to smile around you.  Like a yawn, a smile is contagious.