Every day we have the opportunity to help others or conduct a random act of kindness that have a positive impact on other lives. Optimists see the world with a different lens than pessimists. Optimists experience better health, manage challenges much better and tend to be more confident and happier within themselves. Optimists are found to have an overall higher quality of life than pessimists. The 2016 World Happiness Report ranks 156 countries around the world measuring happiness levels. Denmark was ranked # 1 in the world resultant of numerous factors such as: social support, generosity, life expectancy as well as the freedom to make choices.
Studies have found a strong correlation between kindness and happiness. People who engage in random acts of kindness are happier. Research indicated increased levels of activity in the portion of the brain responsible for compassion.
Here are a few great ways to get going:
Sensational Ways to Create a Positive Impact Each day
1. Give More
Start by giving more than what is expected.
Whether it is helping a colleague work on an assignment, doing household chores you have been putting off for a long time, or spending quality time with your children.
Learn to start seeing what is happening around you and what others are experiencing. This will assist you to live more fully in the present.
2. Smile More
A genuine smile is contagious. A smile is actually a universal language that can literally change someone’s day.
It boosts your mood, takes a moment of one’s time, is free of charge and has an immediate positive impact for both parties.
3. Help Others
Helping others offers us a sense of connectedness, happiness, fulfillment and meaning.
Look for ways for you to make a difference; from offering to pick up your friend’s child from school, helping a colleague meet a strict deadline, run some errands for your partner, or buy someone at work a cup of coffee.
4. Send A Thank You Note
This is considered one of our favorite ways to demonstrate sincere gratitude for all those people whom touch your heart.We send thank you notes all the time to people who inspire us, have taught us valuable lessons, helped us to grow and become a better person, gone out of their way to provide us advice or simply just been there for us as a true friend.
5. Create More Love
Every single day we have the power to choose to do something with love or fear or another approach to look at it, is using Dr. Joe Dispenza’s terminology of just living either in a state of ‘survival’ or ‘expansion’.
Survival state is operating from a state of stress whereas expansion involves feelings of inspiration and operating from your heart which creates joy and happiness.
Daily mediation, mindfulness and practicing gratitude increases our chance to create more love in this world. You have the ability to send more love to the world, to strangers on the street and your loved ones. There is no denying the power of creating more love in our lives as well as for those around us.
6. Quality Time With Family
There is no better time than now to start increasing the quality of your relationships with those you care about.
In a world with no off switch, it is easy to get caught up inside the vortex of an never ending to-do-list or even be swallowed up by all the distractions on your phone from personal and business emails, an over supply of apps, client phone calls and your list of errands and daily priorities.
It is exhausting, drains your energy and robs you of the chance to use that time to help you to refresh your thoughts and body while increasing your levels of happiness by spending quality time with your loved ones.
Start by sitting at the table together to have a real conversation minus the technology gadgets – talk, laugh and discover what happened throughout the day, organize to take a picnic on the weekend at your favorite park or embark on an adventure by driving to a new city or fun park.
7. Nurture Your Business Relationships
Success in business comes down to one’s ability to build and maintain extraordinary relationships.
Those who excel at nurturing their business relationships are in constant demand, other people are attracted to them just like a moth to a flame resultant with their exceptional ability to develop a meaning and real connection with others.
Success in business and life in general is associated with the connections we create with others and the degree to which we’re able to give and receive.
8. Surprise Someone You Love
Who doesn’t love a surprise?
Surprising a loved one is one of the most incredible ways to demonstrate how much you love and care about that person.
When we get caught up in our everyday life of routine and mundane tasks, we can easily forget to take the time to demonstrate simply how much we truly care and show sincere appreciation for the joy and happiness that person bring into our lives.
Sometimes, it isn’t enough to simply say the words ‘I love you’, the actions to demonstrate that statement is true sends the message with much more vigor.
If we take part in acts of kindness and take positive action daily it forms a habit.
Engaging in random acts of kindness and taking action rewires your mind. It positively changes others life and may also change your life forever. The last thought we’d really like you to ponder,’Be the change you want to see in the world’ – Gandhi.