When you find a happiness quote that you love, put it at the bottom of your e-mail so it will be read by everyone you correspond with throughout your day. Also, when you happen upon funny pictures, hilarious stories, jokes, quips, and quotes that brighten your day, spread the good feelings to everyone in your e-mail address book. If your e-mail recipients are having a bad day, your dose of optimism, humor, and happiness may be just what they need to start giggling and get back into their joyful groove.
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Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends. Walt Disney
Saturday
Learn to Adapt to Change in a Crisis
Change is inherent in every crisis, whether personal, societal, environmental, political, global, or some other type. You'll manage the crises of your life better if you learn to not only adapt to change but to search for the gains (rather than the losses) from each one. By focusing on and finding the profit in a crisis, you are more likely to experience positive emotions, such as openness, compassion, love, and hope, and fewer of the negative emotions, such as fear, apprehension, sadness, and anger that accompany many crisis events.
Friday
Spend an Hour Listening to Someone
Discuss Life's Struggles If you know an individual who is going through difficult times or who lives alone without much social contact, donate an hour of your free time to listen to her talk about life and the difficulties she faces. Humans need social contact, but not everyone's life circumstances allows for such interaction. Your company, even for an hour, can raise someone's spirits. Your time of listening can mean a lot to someone who believes there is no one in the world who cares if she lives or dies. You don't have to solve her problems, but just be a supportive and sympathetic listener. Your company might enable her to relieve some of the pressure she feels in her ongoing life struggles. You take brightness into her life through the generosity of your time and thoughtfulness.
Thursday
Volunteer Cook at a Children's Summer Camp
Put your cooking skills to good use preparing food for children at a summer camp. Children need good nutrition to keep them active, healthy, and happy. Unlike a meal thrown together when you are angry or upset, the food you prepare when you feel a sense of well-being, happiness, and love is infused with good vibrations according to yoga practitioners. So cook up something kids will love and serve it to them with a smile. You already know that kids laugh a lot, so a smile or a snicker could be enough to spread the cheer all the way down the serving line.
Wednesday
Notice One Thing Each Day That Gives You Pleasure
In spite of the negative circumstances you may be dealing with, find little moments throughout the day to notice the things that, under ordinary circumstances, give you pleasure. For example, take time to appreciate the view of the neighbor's yellow roses that have just burst into bloom, the taste of a perfectly ripe sweet apple, the sound of classical music as the CD plays on your laptop, the painting you bought in Paris that hangs in your office, the feel of your favorite loafers, or the warmth and smallness of your child's hand in yours. Savor the gifts of sight, sense, taste, touch, and smell. They are working even as you deal with crisis. Take comfort in simply noticing the blessings in the small things and short moments throughout the day.
Think of One Thing You Need to Stay Strong and Focused
Think about what you would need to be grounded and focused if a crisis were to show up in your life five minutes from now. What could instantly calm you and help you deal with a rise in possibly negative emotions? Would a whiff of sandalwood help? How about a shot of brandy? Would fingering your prayer beads or finding a place of absolute silence where you could think and pray work best? A crisis can arise suddenly and without warning. Whether it's an emergency, a cataclysmic natural disaster, or a financial catastrophe, a crisis often requires you to figure something out fairly quickly. Knowing what will get you through the next minute and the minute after that can be as helpful as having an escape plan for the unlikely event that your house catches on fire
Tuesday
Incubate Your Dream and Let It Take Flight
This exercise might not seem too specific, but in fact it is. Incubate means allowing something time to reach its fullness. Letting your dream take flight is letting go of the restrictions you might place upon yourself and your dream. Instead, think about it until it reaches its fullness then let it go. Follow it. Writer Anaïs Nin once observed that a dream was always ahead of her and she chased it, but when she caught up and lived in unison with it for a moment, that moment was nothing short of a miracle. Dreams open your mind to beautiful and exciting possibilities. Give your dream free reign. You may even discover happiness and unfathomable success.
