Maximize Your Happiness During Challenging Times
Reduce Stress & Maximize Your Happiness During Challenging Times
Hi,
The COVID-19 pandemic has put us all in a challenging position. Over the last couple of weeks I offered some new expert insight into how to reduce your stress and increase your happiness habits during these challenging times!
Due to a glitch in the system, you were not on the list, so I apologize for that! I so appreciate that you have subscribed to my emails and wanted to make sure you didn’t miss out on anything. Especially if those things are related to optimizing your happiness levels!
You may be thinking: Is happiness even available right now? Can you benefit from boosting it in this time of crisis? What is a "happiness habit" anyway?
The answer is YES, YES and I'll get to that shortly!
Believe it or not, there are small tweaks (habits) we can make throughout our day that have a surprisingly large impact on our baseline levels of happiness. Since happiness increases resiliency, motivation, creativity, optimism and problem solving, increasing our happiness levels will also help us manage stress and anxiety as we live and work through a pandemic. That in turn, will allow us to take more positive actions towards our work-life wellbeing.
Now, I certainly don’t mean to simplify the complexity of the COVID-19 pandemic, nor the latest horrific, violent, and devastating acts of injustice and brutal deaths of countless Black lives here in America. That is why, I believe these habits are imperative to incorporate in our everyday lives. I know that nourishing our happiness will enhance our mental toughness in the face of adversity. Research shows that bringing more happiness into our lives has far more benefits than merely feeling good. If you contribute on your own individualistic level to make this world a happier place, you will make a difference on a collectivistic level.
Furthermore, I realize that this challenging period affects some more than others. Together, we can enhance our psychological immunity through evidence-based skills and simple, scientifically proven habits. Why? Because these habits have been shown, time and time again, to make a difference in the day-to-day quality of life for ALL those who follow them. The more you’ll practice both existing and new habits, the more you’ll gain their accumulated benefits to boost your well-being. Happier people are also kinder, more inclusive and open minded. They are people who are more likely to find solutions to societal issues. In times of so much turmoil, it's important to watch and build the right "mindset" so we can be an active part of the solution to our problems.
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Many of you have written to me asking for more insight on ways to recover, heal, and move past the difficult changes we’ve endured over the past few months. In one way or another you asked me: “How will I craft my life moving forward?”
Embedded in your questions was a desire to explore the science of change, goals, and habits - as well as the expression of the hurdles to building such habits. I hear you, sustaining behavioral change is not easy, but trust me when I say that it’s certainly doable!
With that said, I will be putting together some golden nuggets of information on the topic of behavioral change, and sharing them with you all in my upcoming newsletters.
In the meanwhile, please let me know if you have any questions I can answer or if there’s any particular pillar of well-being you’d like to learn more about. Happiness encompasses so much: from our fundamentals like eating, sleeping, and moving habits, to our relationships, our vocation, and the way we live our values and pursue our purpose. We have only skimmed the surface...
Please feel free to contact me. Together, we can move the needle in any aspect of your life you wish to optimize. Just hit reply to this email (or email drtal@happierbeing.com) and let me know what’s on your mind!
Keep finding your ways to develop your Happiness Habits!
Sincerely,
Dr. Tal Leead, Psy.D.
happierbeing.com
P.S. Do you know what the art of precious scars (a Japanese art form) and mosaic work have to do with life changes and post-traumatic growth? Stay tuned for my next newsletter, you don’t want to miss this empowering mindset shift as it pertains to change.
Remember: Little Habits, Big Difference
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