How to start your day with a smile
What should a morning start look like?
A snooze button is not just the answer where life is always in a loophole of waking up and sleeping. How many of you have woken up with a good positive smile and had a great day? Do we do this quite often? The straightforward answer is no. What could be the possible reasons? Nothing but stress, workload, meetings, and the list can go on. Every human on this earth is bound with all these activities and it keeps them away from being positive for the entire day. What can be done? You can choose from a variety of options, but we tend to choose the ones which reduces our energy by the end of the day.
Starting your day with a smile is not always trying to enjoy the worldly pleasures. It can also be done by making dramatic plans. It is the simple pleasures in life that we need to count on to give us anonymous joy not only for the day but also for the rest of the days. You need to appreciate and enjoy the little things that you get to witness in your life, the gratitude that you receive from others, or even a small gift. What all can be the simple pleasures in our lives? You do it every other day, but don't enjoy its elegance. What could be the things to do?
Making a person happy
Going out to a restaurant to have your favorite food
Dancing your heart out
Listening to your favorite music
A walk in the rain
A cup of coffee along the seashore with your loved ones
A drive to an unknown destination
You can have something different from your above-mentioned list too that defines your happiness or joy in your daily routing. Time never stops and so we need to learn that being sad will never bring a good change to your life. You need to always have a broad smile on your face even if you are crossing the biggest hurdle of your life.
Can money bring a smile to your face?
Most of us think that money is the only problem solver. It can be due to gaining access to the worldly pleasure or materialistic possessions in life that would only pave the way for happiness, but which is limited to a particular time limit. You don't receive happiness just by owning all of these pleasures. What are the possible scenarios that money can or cannot buy you a smile? There is always a thin line between being happy because of money and being happy on your own. This understanding is very much required in our long run as this can destroy us if pleasure exceeds abundance mindset.
Being able to fulfill the basic needs of your family, being able to feed your family, and paying for their bills can generally bring a smile on your face. In case if you have more money than others around you then it might lead to troubles as well. It might create a stress on how you need to spend, but most of the time humans tend to spend money but not in a wise manner.
It is just that the money gives them additional powers to fulfil their desires for the day or for a couple of months. We would be more likely happy when money is spent on long-term happiness, and which brings an album of memories that we can cherish forever. Purchasing something will only stay with us for a particular period of time, but experiences never fade away.
It always leads to controversies which are never ending. Everyone in this world thinks that money is the only source of happiness or a good morning start, but the real truth is that it is our mindset. If we don’t have the right set of mindset or approach towards the different things we come across, we end up in a direction that is not meant for us. We have everything written in our fate and indeed that decides our destiny.
We are bound by a lot of things in our daily routine that keeps us away from the smile we always wear during our happiest moments. Remember, if money was the only concern and source of happiness then everyone in this world who is satisfied with the amount, they earn would have been happy. The answer is as simple as it sounds.
Questions to ask yourself when you wake up
Every life will have ups and downs, and it is necessary for us to have a scale on top of our mind that keeps us updated about our day. What could be those possible questions to ask ourselves when we wake up that would help us to weigh our scale in the right direction?
1. How excited are you about your day?
What signs of happiness do you see when you wake up every day? Do you wake up each morning and are ready to face the day, or do you feel stressed out? If negativity fills in at the start of the day, then how can you have a good day?
2. Do I enjoy the time with people who spend time with me?
If you don’t really enjoy the day with your companions or your best friends. You will end up landing yourself in a place which is never yours. If your morning colleagues don’t make you happy then you are always stressed about your surroundings due to the tensions that keep running in your head.
3. Will the future tense me?
The future is the only thing that keeps you away from what you do. Everything you do in today’s world is never about the present moment but thinking about how your future is going to sound like. When you are not living in your present then how do you think your present is going to change? It is so clear that your present always decides the future and not the future that decides your present.
4. Am I happy with what I have?
The most important thing for a good start to your day is being happy with yourself, with what you have and your surroundings. If that doesn’t happen, then your daily start will not be that great that you wish to feel about it. They say right “You need to keep yourself balancing”, and if you don’t know to balance the important aspects of your life you would never have a good start to the day.
5. Do I like what I do?
The most important thing to know about yourself is whether you like what you do in your daily routine. A person with no like towards their work can never bring happiness to themselves. Their day always starts with cribbing about things that almost kill them but somehow do it because of no other available options. You need to like what you do. The most common mistake that we commit is always take what we get and never work hard for what we like.
There can be many other possible reasons for us not having a good day at the start. We need to figure it out. Just sitting and stressing about it will never make us achieve our goals and we would reach nowhere but get stuck in this loophole forever. We need to break the monotony, failure to which leads us to redundancy.
Seven attractive mantras to start your day with a smile
Our words matter. They have the power to attract things we are surrounded by. If you use the wrong words, then indeed they would affect you and the way you would live in the next few days. Often the human mind thinks negative whenever they suffer, but no one thinks that it can be positive too in some way. In what way? that is to be figured and observed by the person itself.
What are those attractive mantras that you can use to start your day with so that you can be rest assured that your day is going to be positive enough.
1. I love myself and my life
One of the reasons for you to live is to love yourself more than you give it to others. If you can’t love yourself, you will not have the emotions to even love others at the same point of time. Loving yourself increases happiness and makes your day a little better. Think if you don’t love yourself, where do you land yourself in the day?
2. I am grateful for what I have
Another set of factors to bring a smile to your face when you wake up is to be grateful for the day and the life you have been living. Most of us are unsatisfied as we have expectations that we always need to meet. The standards that we meet also come from here. A humble human even if rich doesn’t bother about materialistic possessions. If you are not grateful for what you have, then you will always feel that you are not meeting your own needs leading to a bad day.
3. I can set my mind to tackling things in life
Believing in yourself and having confidence and faith in what you do and what you can achieve will take you further than you have ever thought about. When you have the ability to do anything you set your mind to, you will always be able to tackle things on the go making you happy. It wouldn’t bother you at all even if it fails you. Chant these words in your daily life and you would see yourself able to cross the hurdles in your life that you have been wanting to for ages.
4. I will attract the positives and leave the negatives behind
If you don’t train your mind to be positive in the worst situations, then you would never be able to wake up with a bright smile. Most of us have worse days in life that we need to face for which we think that our life is going to end soon. Sooner or later, we realize that these have taught us and made us stronger. If you keep thinking in the negative direction you would also be on the edge of losing hope rather than building it for a better day.
5. I will not be affected by what others say to me
The most important thing to always keep in mind is to respect others and their advice too. People always say bad things about you to others or even straight away to you. If you make yourself a victim of it always, you would not be able to be yourself in any possible way. If you train your mind in a way which doesn’t affect you about what others say about you, then you will always pave a path even in the most difficult situation. Your day can start bad, but it can also be changed to a good one if you make your mindset go in the right direction.
6. I will try to live in the present moment rather than live in the future
We are always bothered about our future, and we want to work accordingly to secure our future too. It can only be confined to you or your family or even beyond that as well. If your future is going to whirl in your mind, then you will never be able to live in the present. If you are not living in your present, then you can never be able to stay happy as you would never be in the present zone at all. Thinking about the future might even scare you as you might exaggerate everything even if it is small.
7. I Attract Healthy People into My Life
Even in the best circumstances, the wrong people will keep us from going far or crossing the hurdles in life. Create a circle of friends who know that hope exists, positivity exists, life exists more than we ever think, and buckle you up always. Avoid people who are dramatic in life and seek for those who can bring up a healthy living in you. When you are healthy, you tend to work better and align with the world.
Do you want to wake up with a smile?
Think about how you feel when you see a smile on someone else’s face you love the most? Isn’t it eternal? In the same way if you don’t have a good day do you think you are going to have the best days in future? Absolutely not. Understand that if your smile fades away how it is going to affect your closed ones as well. You are always a person who can stand with yourself first, then with others. If you always feel positive about yourself then no one in this world can destroy your smile even if you are crossing the biggest hurdle of your life. Wear a smile on your face as it always suits you. Don’t bother about others, just be yourself.