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In today’s article, 5 amazing tips on how to live a happier life today I will discuss the importance of why happiness is crucial to living a great life. No one in their right mind wants to be unhappy but I do understand the different challenges we all go through that can make happiness seem far away.

So I have come up with my own 5 favourite tips that have helped me become happier when times are difficult in my life. I hope my tips help you to live a happier life today.

Why Your Happiness Is Important?

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Happiness is something we all want. Some people are definitely happier than others. The question is why you should ask.

There you will find the habits they act upon every day that allows them to live that happy life. I used to believe when I was younger that happiness comes from great wealth, a supercar or being famous.

As I’ve grown older I know this is not to be the case. Of course, these things are great and can give you short term happiness but not the deep happiness we are discussing today. The very fact we see celebrities that have everything but lead unhappy lives has been a testament to that.

Internal vs External Happiness

We need to understand that happiness is not an external materialistic feeling. It’s something internal that we all crave for. The reason why it’s important? It’s because it fosters great mental health where it reduces stress, negative thoughts and negative outcomes.

We should aspire to live a life of happiness but it has to be on our terms of what we want not what society tells us we should want. There you find the happiness you deserve.

Some of the happiest people in the world can be seen living in nature away from the modern-day world which shows that going back to nature can be a major benefit in creating an environment that also makes us happy.

So I hope the tips below can help you take that step towards your internal happiness because no one can take that away from you. That’s yours to control and once you know that then all the external stuff you come in contact with can be enjoyed even more.

5 Amazing Tips On How To Live A Happier Life Today

1. Love Yourself

What leads to a happier life is loving yourself unconditionally. Because before we even think of loving someone else we need to love ourselves and be happy with the person we are today.

Growing up I was always hard on myself nitpicking every fault as being not good enough and comparing my achievements to others who were on different paths to myself.

This leads to unhappiness and took a lot out of my mental health along the way. When I realised this is not productive I changed to loving myself for who I am and what I have achieved. It was like a dark cloud that was lifted and the sunniest day you can imagine was welcomed.

Too many of us are hard on ourselves when we don’t have to be. Try loving yourself today.

2. Always Look For The Positives

I was once told an example of how the mind works. That has always stuck with me.

I was in a room where I was told to look at everything I could see. Then I was told to close my eyes. Upon opening my eyes, I had to focus on all the red objects in the room. Then close my eyes and remember as many objects as I could. I was then told the same thing again but this time it was finding everything blue. It was amazing that both times all I could see in a room full of all different colours were the colours I was told to look for.

This was a great example of how the brain works and what it focuses on is what it delivers.

This is the same for positivity and negativity. If we are always looking out for negatives in general newspapers, faults in people or our failures then we are going to lead a very unhappy life. Whereas if we do the opposite and find good news, the best in people and what we did well at and how we can improve. We are going to live a more fulfilled and happy life.

So I challenge you today to focus on positives in yourself and others and make sure you’re self-aware of what’s coming into your mind via external sources.

3. Be Grateful For Everything You Have

Wanting more out of life. Is something every human wants. We can though, get lost in always wanting the next thing in our life. Which can be a detriment to our happiness.

The constant of wanting the next big thing is a drain and it makes us feel like failures if we can’t attain it. But when you change that mindset to gratefulness the game completely changes.

Being grateful is a well-known strategy that has been spoken about in great length but it’s still an underrated tool that many people don’t apply each day. When we are grateful for what we have today it can actually help us move forward for a better tomorrow.

The major difference is our happiness and mental health is exactly where they should be. So today sit down and forget about the future and focus on the present of today of what you do have. For me I took for granted, running tap water, a home that keeps us safe and the oxygen that keeps me alive.

We have so much to be grateful for in our life we just have to make that the launchpad that propels us to progress and overall happiness.

4. Forgive Your Past

Forgiving yourself and others are crucial for happiness. When we don’t forgive we resent and this lives within us weighing us down. The longer we leave it the weight gets heavier and heavier. That’s why we need to find it within ourselves to forgive others for what they have done to us, not for them but for ourselves.

More importantly, we should forgive ourselves for any past failure mistakes we have made. It’s not worth it holding on to the past as it only destroys our present and future.

Today to unlock your happiness. Sit down and write everything you can think of about yourself and others that you haven’t forgiven and one by one start forgiving.

Release that negative emotion, cry, shout, speak to that person. whatever you need to do. Once done happiness will flow throughout you. I did this myself and it was literally like a weight off my back.

5. Surround Yourself With Happiness

What stops anyone from being happy is the environment we surround ourselves in. We have people who bring us down or we live somewhere where we don’t feel safe. This can affect your happiness greatly.

That’s why it’s your duty to have people in your life that make you happy and lift you up. Live in a home you love and live in an area you feel safe in.

Make it your duty today to write down a list of what makes you unhappy about the external forces in your life. Then right next to it a solution to change it. Now go all in to have a life where you are surrounded by happiness.

Over To You

I hope you enjoyed today’s article, 5 amazing tips on how to live a happier life today.

I enjoyed writing this article and has given me great happiness passing this on to you.

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I’ve spent over 10 years coaching and mentoring people within sport and business. I have many life skills that I have developed and I want to pass these skills on so people can find their best self. I believe it all starts in the mind and I write about valuable tools and strategies to help people grow in this area.

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In today’s article 3 ways how playing sports can make us better mentally, we will discuss the positive impacts sports can have on the mind. I will discuss the impact it has had on me but also on others as well. Then you will get my 3 favourites of how playing sports can make us better mentally. ENJOY!

How Sports Can Change Your life

I wouldn’t say I grew up in a sports family. Early on I think through friends I unlocked a passion for sports. I grew up playing and watching all the different sports.

The love of football was huge but also I had a keen interest in Formula 1 and rugby. I couldn’t get enough of the Olympic games.

Now into adulthood, I’m still just as passionate. It’s amazing how sports can bring you so much joy, drama, inspiration from just watching. The sense of community can be felt when watching with others whether that be in your home, down your local pub or in the stands.

Watching is one thing, playing is completely another. The skills you learn both mentally and physically are life-changing. It has helped develop my confidence in myself, respect for others and a drive to be successful.

How Sport Impacts Everyone

Not only me but it has developed millions of people around the world to change their lives. Anthony Joshua said boxing got him away from potentially going down the wrong path in life where now he inspires a new generation of kids with his sports mindset, talent and being a great role model.

Even my sons Sensai in karate inspires him to become not only a good martial artist but also a mentally healthy person too.

There are countless stories all around us of the life-changing aspects that sport can give us whether that be health, finances or sense of purpose. But more importantly, it can help us develop a healthy mind. This is what I want for my children.

For you, the reader I hope this unlocks something within you, where taking up a sport you feel passionate about, can help continue your mental journey. The best thing about sports it doesn’t just have to be team-based sports but it can also be individual too whether that’s doing yoga which I now love or doing weight lifting.

My biggest advice I could give is to pick a sport you like and get to it. The rewards far out way anything that could stop you from doing it.

3 Ways How Playing Sports Can Make Us Better Mentally

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1. Playing Sports Helps With Discipline

Discipline is an important skill to learn. It helps you overcome procrastination, laziness and going back on promises. Self- discipline helps you succeed in life at controlling your emotions and habits.

Sports Is definitely a place where you learn this. You just have to look at Olympic athletes, where you have to be disciplined for 4 years for the chance to go to the Olympic games. They have to be disciplined with their training sessions, food intake and overall lifestyle to attain their pinnacle goal.

That’s why athletes, when their sports life is over, can easily transfer the skill of being disciplined into their family and the business world. You can see that in ex-sports stars like Michael Jordan, David Beckham and you could even say Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson too.

There’s no doubt discipline plays a big part in their success within their sport and outside of it.

2. Playing Sports Helps With Confidence

Sports can change someones whole personality in an instant. A bit of competition can change the quietest mild-mannered person into the loudest and aggressive person. A famous example in football was Paul Scholes who was two completely different personalities on and off the pitch.

I have experienced this myself where another side of my personality comes out. I utilise this personality trait to good use in my own life too. It has allowed me to be confident in places where my introverted self wouldn’t do so well.

What sport can do, is teach you a lot about who you are and what you’re capable of. You just have to look at UFC MMA fighters or any Mixed Martial Arts where you learn to fight. Rational thinking you would expect this to lead to more fighting and becoming unruly but on the whole, it has the opposite effect where you’re so confident in your own abilities it means you don’t have to fight to prove yourself. You can be confident enough in your abilities not to.

Sport can definitely do a lot for peoples confidence in a whole array of outcomes that we don’t have time to discuss here.

If you want to build confidence yourself, your child that’s a bit shy or someone coming back from a horrific injury. Sport is the place you build that confidence back and unlock the winner within you.

3. Playing Sports Helps With Happiness

For your mental health, being happy can have tremendous benefits on your mind. You just have to ask yourself how happy are your children when they’re active and playing sports and how happy was you?

From my experience, I was ultra happy with smiles as wide as the milky way. When getting older into adulthood. Life changes with work and extra responsibilities which can get in the way of participating in sports.

This has to change as there’s a lot of adults struggling with mental health problems like anxiety, the negative side of stress and depression.

What can really transform our mood is partaking in sports activities where we build relationships with others and show ourselves we are capable of so much more than we realise.

Happiness is an important part of our life and we need more of it than ever before in today’s crazy world.

Sport is definitely one part of the answer to our happiness problem.

What Do You Think?

Thank you for dropping by to read 3 ways how playing sports can make us better mentally

I’ve only listed 3 positive impacts sport can have on the mind but the list is far greater than what I’ve written. Sport can bring out wonderful aspects in all of us. It unites people and gives people a purpose.

Hopefully, this has inspired you to keep going with sports or take it back up again.

Build that mental strength and stay mentally happy!

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Hi, I’m Adam