What will you focus on in 2022? Whatever your other plans and ambitions may be, one of them should be this: to be happier this coming year. The pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 have been tough, and just when things were starting to look better, the highly contagious Omicron variant appeared to interrupt our holiday plans, as Bill Gates tweeted.
How do you become happier? There are many, many answers to that question. For now, I’d like to focus on one way we don’t often talk about: changing our daily lives and daily routines. Obviously, on any given day, most of us do things because we have to.
Mixed in with all these obligations should be lots of things we do for pleasure, things that make us happy just by doing them, small joys that may be insignificant by themselves, but that in the aggregate can lift our spirits, help us function better, and ultimately make us happier.
Here are some things that I believe fill that bill. I invite you to try them out, or to make a happiness list of your own.
1, Savor your favorite morning beverage.
2, Get outdoors.
3, Talk with someone you care about.
4, Take a nap.
5, Read a good book.
6, Laugh.
7, Splend a little time doing nothing.
I – Word Understanding
Aggregate – a combination of many items / things
Fill the bill – suitable for a particular purpose
II – Have Your Say
1, What are the things you want to do this year? Do you have any new year resolutions?
2, What are the things that you think would make you happier this year? How does the pandemic affect that?
3, Share your thoughts on the 7 small joys suggested by this article.
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