Keeping Your Head Up Through Thick and Thin
10 strategies everyone can use to discover pleasure and satisfaction in everyday moments:
1. Share positive feelings
Let your children know how great it feels to spend time with them. Tell your lover about the compliment your boss paid you. E-mail your best friend to tell her how fondly you remember the camping trip you took last year, and include a silly picture. Sharing happy memories and experiences with others—or even simply anticipating doing so—is one of the most powerful and effective ways to prolong and magnify joy, research shows. “It helps sustain emotions that would otherwise fade,” he says. Affirming connections with others is “the glue that holds people together.”… Read More...