The main life goal is happiness. So if among your priorities you do not have to be happy in the first place, it is time to review your list. There are some things that you are doing wrong every day that are making you unhappy. They are daily habits or preconceived ideas about what we should do and also about what we want to do. We have to eliminate them because it is time to be happy.
What you’re doing wrong every day
We are not going to tell you to bet on a healthy life, to stop smoking, to eat healthy and to play sports because surely you already know that. But maybe you don’t know that you are self-boycotting daily and those habits prevent you from being happy.
- Running out of time as soon as you wake up
We live in a hurry, hence the stress that more and more people suffer. And marking the times and schedules is inevitable, but don’t you have them too tight? If you start running from the moment you wake up, the day becomes a steep climb in which your efforts are focused on arriving on time. Arrive on time to the children’s school, arrive on time to the subway, arrive on time to work, leave work on time to arrive on time to your children’s after-school classes and run to make dinner.
- Not taking care of yourself
Along the lines of always running, you also don’t have time to take care of yourself, to think about yourself, to know yourself, to accept yourself and to love yourself. We know that you have obligations, that your children are the most important thing and that your family needs your care. But think that if you don’t take care of yourself, you won’t be able to take care of others.
- What you don’t allow yourself
Your day is full of responsibilities, obligations and routines. And rules. What if you break the rules for a day? It is not a matter of calling your boss to tell him that you prefer to stay in bed today, but surely you can free yourself from any other obligation, surely you can say “no” to some commitment and surely you can afford to skip the diet. It’s about being a little more permissive and flexible with yourself.
- Details matter
Let’s go general and skip all the details. That detail of your neighbor’s smile when you find yourself on the stairs, that other of the first smell of spring after a long winter, that of your daughter’s laugh when she sees something funny on the street or that hug from your partner before have dinner. The details matter because happiness is found in them, so today could be a good day for you to start noticing those details that make you happy.
- Demand yourself to be perfect
It is positive to give the best of yourself, but you cannot always be in a kind of competition with yourself for being perfect, for doing everything well and for reaching everything. Because perfection does not exist, but authenticity does. Because it’s better to be authentic than perfect. Because yours will feel more loved if you show yourself as a real woman and not as a superwoman.