People's Daily: 18 small things to enhance happiness, recommended for permanent collection

Author | Yi mo & play

Source | There is a book (ID: youshucc)

Anchor | Fan Deng Reading · Yifan

"Why is it that the more people have, the less happiness they have?"

Someone replied:

When a person sets the threshold of happiness too high, even the biggest surprise will be turned away.

Happiness never needs to be successful, nor does it need to be flawless.

It is hidden in the little bits and pieces of life, in the small blessings that you never inadvertently experience, but always experience.

If you want to enhance your sense of happiness, you may wish to take a look at these 18 small things recommended by the People's Daily to help you get happier.

01

Learn a new skill

As the saying goes:

"Skills are not pressed, and the artists are bold."

People live a lifetime and learn as many new skills as possible in order to have their core competitiveness and grasp the initiative in life.

When you are desperate, skills are the tools to make a living; when you have no worries, skills are the antidote to fatigue.

The study found that 90% of a person's knowledge in life is self-taught.

So, in the face of new skills that need to be learned from scratch, don't panic and be afraid.

Life never starts too late.

Don't set limits on your life, don't let your time be wasted, start from scratch, and fight steadily.

One day, you will be able to achieve self-growth and leapfrogging.

02

Occasionally reward yourself with small gifts

"Learn to reward yourself to do more with less."

On the way to completing your goals, set yourself some small rewards.

It is a reward for this period of time, and it is also a support for the future path.

Maybe it's a cup of milk tea, maybe it's a bouquet of flowers; maybe it's a journey that you can take, maybe it's just a meal that you've been waiting for for a long time...

This gift, no matter how big or small, is just a reward that brings us joy and satisfaction while also motivating us to take on a better journey.

03

Set aside half an hour a day to read

Someone online asked:

Why do people read?

Professor Luo Xiang, a criminologist, replied:

The real purpose of reading is to pursue wisdom, not mere knowledge.

Reading can change the face, and if you don't read for three days, your face is abominable.

Reading can enlighten wisdom, and when you don't see it for three days, when you look at it with astonishment.

Reading can nourish the soul, but the book is colored and colorful than Xizi.

In this noisy and impetuous world, why not calm down, take half an hour, and read quietly.

Maybe reading more books may not necessarily bring you enough good luck, but it will give you a spiritual refuge and make you a better version of yourself.

Accumulated over time, perseverance, we will eventually export into a chapter, show the wisdom of the outside.

04

Exercise regularly

The medical journal "Lancet" found that long-term lack of exercise will reduce tissue and organ skills by 30%, and various diseases will follow.

In recent years, personal health has become the focus of national attention.

Red dates with goji berries, hand-held cups.

Everyone is trying to maintain health as much as possible, but they forget that the best way to maintain the body is actually exercise.

People who love sports, their health will not be very bad.

Maybe exercise won't have an immediate effect, but in the long run, you can see very different changes.

In the second half of life, the fight is health.

Overcome inertia, exercise regularly, and every drop of sweat you shed will achieve a better life.

05

Watch a good movie regularly

Someone said, "After the film came, our lives were at least three times longer than before." ”

Good movies come from life and are higher than life.

Let us feast our eyes, have a moment of leisure, and let us reminisce endlessly and gain insight into the various changes of life.

In "Forrest Gump", know how to work hard and persevere;

In Spirited Away; learn to say goodbye;

In "Journey to the West", understand the true meaning of love.

In a stressful life, leave yourself a separate space to watch a good movie.

While relaxing yourself, you can also experience the lives of others and feel a different spiritual world.

06

Make a delicious meal for the family

The most touching love story in the world is "Cook for you, eat good food." ”

The romance of life is never more than the wind and snow, but also the chai rice oil and salt.

Cook a meal for your family, feel the breath of life in the thick smoke and fire, and experience the happiness brought by food.

The fireworks in the world are the most soothing to the hearts of mortals.

Behind every kind of cuisine, there is the fun of life in the city, and it is a portrayal of ordinary life.

Condensing the long stream of a lifetime into a simple vegetable and a meal is the longest confession of affection.

07

Take a picture of the beautiful scenery at your fingertips

Life is not a lack of beauty, but a lack of eyes to find beauty.

On the road of life, although there are many ditches and bumps, there is no shortage of flowers.

The willow branches by the river, the stones at the foot, the sunset in the sky...

Beauty, in fact, is everywhere.

When you encounter these inadvertent beauties, you may wish to take out your mobile phone and take pictures of the amazing fragments of these ordinary times.

While recording beautiful moments, it also adds color to life.

08

Tidy up the room

Mitsuhiro Uta said in "Sweeping Power":

Your life is actually like your own room.

If your room is dirty, I regret to tell you that your good fortune will slip away.

Whether a person's room is clean or not determines his attitude towards life and hides his blessings.

The chaotic room not only brings negative energy, but also allows itself to produce negative emotions and affect the body and mind.

The windows are clean and orderly, but they will make people fall in love at first sight and feel happy.

If you want to make people feel good luck, you may want to start by cleaning your room.

Throw away the unwanted, discard the excess waste, and get rid of attachment to things.

When you clean up your room, life will also become bright and warm.

09

Get enough sleep every day

I once read a sentence:

The best state of a person is to be able to fall asleep peacefully every night and wake up energetically every morning.

Sleep, the most common little thing, has become the most insurmountable problem for many young people.

Because of the pressure to sleep all night, because of staying up late to play mobile phones do not want to sleep, because overtime can not ensure adequate sleep...

The body is also dragged down by long-term consumption.

As the saying goes: "Medicine is not as good as food supplement, food supplement is not as good as sleep supplement." ”

The best health for a person is to work and rest regularly and sleep well.

This is respect for life, an emphasis on health, and a responsibility for oneself.

Ensure at least 8 hours of adequate sleep every day, so that the brain can get effective rest, in order to make yourself more aggressive on the road of life.

10

Take a hot bath when you are tired

The University of Texas study found that bathing or soaking in a bath about 90 minutes before bedtime was able to fall asleep faster than usual for 10 minutes.

Whether you are after exercise or tired, you may wish to choose to take a hot bath comfortably in the water temperature of about 42 °.

Lie quietly in the bathtub, gently massage and empty yourself.

This rare 20 minutes is not only a kind of health, but also a kind of decompression.

The unhappiness, resentment, and sadness that had accumulated seemed to be like mud all over the body, which had been swept away, and the body and mind were also soothed.

After washing away the lead and impetuousness, we can return to basics and play easily.

11

Enjoy the ease of being alone

The philosopher Schopenhauer said:

We bear all our misfortunes because we cannot be alone.

People who don't know how to be alone, or dazed, or lonely, or bored, are always muddy and do nothing.

On the contrary, people who know how to be alone will shut the carnival out of the door and make efficient use of this rare lonely time.

Or hold the book in your hand and fill the soul; or close your eyes and nourish the spirit and enrich the soul.

High-quality solitude is an ability, a kind of cultivation, and even more a realm.

When a person learns to be alone, he can hear the inner voice flowing.

12

Put together a personal playlist

"In this life, people are most afraid of reading a person, and they are most afraid of understanding a song."

Many times, we listen to the melody and understand life.

Different music brings us different feelings, and also experiences different emotions in the lyrics that come out of the story.

In the days to come, in the favorite music APP, establish your own mood song list.

With the difference in music, give sadness an outlet, give sadness a space, share happiness, and let happiness pass on.

I also slowly washed away my troubles and healed all my sorrows in the sound of music coming from my headphones.

13

Take ten minutes before bedtime to review

Life is like a chess piece, intricate and complicated.

If you make a mistake, you may lose everything.

If you want to make yourself less detours, you must know how to review in time.

Give yourself 10 minutes before bedtime to look back on your day from a bystander's perspective.

Record every mistake, self-reflect, and improve in time.

In this life, the most feared thing is never to make mistakes, but not to know how to introspect.

Just like many successful people can succeed, not because they never make mistakes, but because they know how to summarize and summarize in their mistakes and review themselves.

Review is the best helper for self-examination, and only when a person dares to face his own mistakes can he correct them and continuously improve.

14

Record the happy moments of the day

Writer Bi Shumin once said:

You don't always want to be happy, it's mostly just quietly coming.

Everyone longs for happiness and wants to be happy forever.

Happiness is actually very simple: a small thing, the help of a stranger, can make you happy.

Starting today, record the moments that make you happy every day.

Being praised by others, hearing favorite songs, buying favorite clothes, tasting long-awaited delicacies...

Even the most trivial things can be recorded one by one.

Over time, you will find that the happiness and warmth you once longed for are actually hidden in every daily life.

15

Find hobbies that you can stick with

Zhang Chao, a Qing dynasty, said:

Flowers cannot be without butterflies, mountains cannot be without springs, stones cannot be moss-free, water cannot be free of algae, and people cannot be without fetishes.

Flowers are more delicate with butterflies, green mountains are more profound with clear springs, stones are more beautiful with moss, and streams are more flexible when they are accompanied by floating algae.

In life, cultivate at least one hobby that you can hold on to for a lifetime.

Painting, calligraphy, fishing, dancing...

In the continuous learning, self-cultivation, in the busy life, more relaxed.

Choose one thing to become a habit, choose a good one to grow old, have nothing to do with money and fame, only seek inner joy.

When you immerse yourself in it, you will enjoy yourself, and life will be full of fun and vivid colors.

16

Quit the bad habit of procrastination

In psychology, there is a famous "2-minute rule".

Meaning, if you want to do something, be sure to do it within 2 minutes.

Otherwise, you may procrastinate for a long time, or even never do it.

Procrastination is always the biggest stumbling block on the road to success.

Only by overcoming one's own inertia can one allow oneself to go further.

"There is no difficulty in working hard in the world, and everything in the lazy world is rested."

Learn today's events, today's completion, anything, force yourself, there will be different results.

In the future, when you want to procrastinate, you may wish to act now.

Use the key 2 minutes and the ending will be very different.

17

Say goodbye to meaningless socializing

A foreign survey report shows that:

The more friends you have in social networks, the more irritable people become, and their happiness index decreases.

Many people in life try their best to integrate into the circle, and feel that multiple friends have multiple roads and multiple circles are easy to walk.

But they did not think that the wider the circle, the more complicated the interpersonal relationship, and the more chaotic life became.

The best way to live a simple life is to say goodbye to meaningless socializing and keep your time and energy to yourself.

Learn to subtract from circles and add to life.

Only when a person's circle is simple, his life will be easy and pure, and he will cultivate himself.

18

Make your own plan for saving money

In the movie "True Love And False Love", it is said:

What I love is not money, but the kind of independent and free life that money brings.

Saving money is the biggest confidence in a person's life, and it is the self-discipline that adults should have the most.

Because many moments, we don't know, tomorrow or accident which comes first.

And whether money is important or not is not about you, but about when you need to use it.

Learn to save money and make a savings plan for yourself.

If you want to save money, try to create a savings plan that records your expenses.

You can divide the money into several parts, and in addition to being satisfied with daily expenses, you can invest in yourself and cope with unexpected needs.

When you have money in your hand, you can not panic in your heart;

When you know how to plan ahead and accumulate a lot, you can maintain decency in the face of wind and rain and live calmly.

Haruki Murakami said:

When you treat the seemingly uninteresting little things in life with a serious and interesting attitude, you will reap a small but certain happiness, and you will feel that life is very beautiful.

Life is short, and happiness is not easy.

If we always go to the competition, to compete, it is difficult for us to enjoy ourselves.

In fact, the code of happiness is in our own hands.

Instead of envying the fish, it is better to retreat to the net.

Grasp the little things, taste the true meaning, and happiness is at the corner of life.

Click "Watching", and I hope that for the rest of my life, you and I will be content and happy.

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