Whats your daily recipe... ?

Happiness stalks you, the moment you chose to date it! So, how does your daily dose of mind-food look like?

Here is a daily recipe from your Happiness guy... bring all these on in your day, and see LIFE transform!

• Wake up early. Spend the first hours being physically active – walk, stretch, cycle, just ensure that there is some good physical activity... ….fitness is a great gift you can give yourself… and your mind feels so fresh for the rest of the day
• STOP switching on the TV in the early hours of your day. It’s an idiot box as we all know, and yet how many of us just switch it on so naturally.
• Make conscious efforts to be extremely active, physically and mentally, in the early hours of the day.
• Be thankful to all you have in life NOW. It is the greatest positive vibration you can send in your mind and body
• Begin by visualizing how your perfect day will look like. Etch these visuals/images in your mind, and it mostly will come true.
• Decide and commit to stay an OPTIMIST all through the day.
• Have a want to stay happy 24/7. This might sound artificial and even ridiculous in today’s world – but having this want make you stay happy most of the time. When you are beaten down by something or someone, try saying to yourself, ‘I want to stay happy’ – repeat it about 10 times, and see how it changes you.
• Visualize in great detail – with all the colors, motion and the buzz all around… See receiving accolades, appreciation, people coming to you for advice, knowledge….
• Spend just about 5 to 10 minutes making a to-do task list - in your style. Writing/listing makes us to get to our priorities.
• Make helping others and gratitude a part of your day. Help even if in a small way. Be grateful even for the small things someone does to you.
• When you begin the day, make a simple resolution that you will focus of what you WANT. This is magical. And is the best way to ensure that we have no energy leaks.
• Consciously avoid energy leaks. Energy leaks happen when you allow your WANTS, priorities, and agenda to be taken over by others/external factors.
• Stay in the NOW in what you do/where you are. This is the best way to make sure that you deliberately enjoy every step in the day. Also staying this way when we speak to others, are in meetings, with friends etc will make us to be seen as someone who cares & contributes. It shows when we are not present in the NOW.
• Wear that smile on your face. Smile those whom you see in the lift, at the traffic signal, and get that positive attitude in you every other day. Do this consciously, and over time it will come to your naturally.
• All day, do unto others, what you expect them to do. This, even if you are a boss, or a co-worker. Treat everyone with love, dignity and respect them for what they are.
• At work, make sure you are giving in your best... don’t work for the sake of your boss, or under any kind of pressure. You decide what you must do to fulfill your role for the day – and better your own standards. Excellence comes so easily.
• If your are working on a computer all through the day, set an alarm so that you take a break every 20 or 30 minutes. Stretch, relax, share some positive words with colleagues, and check if all is well with them
• Resist the temptation to hit the send/receive button every other minute. It’s so common, even when we know that most mails in the inbox are junk. And if there is something so urgent, then the sender will call you sure.
• Through the day, you will sure encounter negativity, and some disappointment, or bad behavior by someone… when this happens, and your mood swirls towards bad, consciously push it to happiness. Think of something funny, or how you did something so well on some other occasion, how your team won that deal.
• By practice, pushing us to a happy state/better mood comes easily. It is such a great saver of time and our own energy.
• On any day, see if you’re playing the best of your strengths. How well are you using your greatest strengths is the best determinant of a great day. Done on a regular basis, this increases your self-esteem and gives your supreme self confidence.
• Stay positive. Hang out only with positive personalities. Avoid nay Sayers. And those who spend the large part of the day only in bitching, back biting, comparing etc. This is the easy and best antibiotic to make sure that your personal/professional health is always in great shape.
• Practice looking at the GOOD side in any situation. Even in a bad or dismal situation. This helps for LIFE. Learn or Let go – make this your life mantra.
• Cultivate a sense of humor. It comes by practice, and looking at the lighter side of things. Having a sense of humor eases any grim or bad situation, and also serves to alleviate stress of YOU, and those around you.
• When someone comes to have a word with you, stop what you are doing and speak/listen to them in the NOW. Listen. Listen with effort - until it comes effortlessly. Never allow them to speak as you keep scribbling something or checking mails.
• In your team, make sure that you interact with everyone as much as possible. Never get into the habit of sending a mail to the colleague in the next cubicle. Even if you have to do it by protocol, speak, share and then mail.
• To a colleague or subordinate at work, show how things can be done better, rather than just speaking and reprimanding when things go wrong. Making people do things right is your primary responsibility – not just fault finding.
• Professionally and personally, see how you add value in any situation. At home. At work. Even in the society. This is the best way to develop you as a person.
• Say Thank you as many times as you can. Cutting across all levels at office, and to anyone whom you come across in the road. And most of all to your family.
• Keep family first. Always. This is not to say that you ignore your work or profession. Working hard does not mean ignoring the near and dear. Remember, they are the bedrock of your LIFE.
• When all goes at work or even work goes off, in this ever changing world, FAMILY remains.
• At home, spend time speaking to spouse, parents and kids. Make family time protected from any digression. The couple of hours you spend this way, speaking, sharing, enjoying and loving will nourish your mind.
• Help at home whenever possible. Running a home is as tougher as today’s challenging work place. At your workplace, your failure will be made up by some else’s success – this can never happen at home. YOU MUST WIN AT HOME TO WIN AT WORK.
• Listen to some great music or inspiring talks. Read a little of the book you always wanted to read. Do this everyday.
• Use waiting time and commuting time to listen to some great stuff or read.
• Ask your spouse how her day at work or home was. Share the same about your day.
• Ask your kids what they school day was like – whom they met new, what they learnt, what was interesting etc. Kids will turn out to be great teachers, and love when the parent asks!
• Never go to sleep after watching TV for hours together. This causes mental fatigue, and upsets the next day morning. Instead, chat with spouse, kids or parents, or listen to some soothing music. It works wonders and you sleep well.
• Sleep well for seven to eight hours. Begin sleeping by visualizing pleasant things. This comes by practice and is so powerful.

So, have a great day! Every day for the rest your LIFE!