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10 Incredibly Easy Ways to Be Happier

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Incredibly Easy Ways to Be Happier
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Incredibly Easy Ways to Be Happier continues the series on Incredibly Easy Ways to Improve Your Life.

See here for what this series is about, and scroll to the bottom or click here for a list of other entries in the series. Also see the end of the post for details on submitting your own incredibly easy life-improvements.

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Incredibly Easy Ways to Be Happier

Happiness is the single most important aspect of self-improvement.

Every other self-help endeavor – productivity, health, finances, relationships, and achieving your goals – they’re ultimately in service to making you happy. If that’s not the end result, what’s the point?

But a lot of self-help advice, especially that coming from super-achievers, ignores this.… Read more

Celebrate progress instead of focusing on distance from your goals

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Recently a friend of mine said to me, “When you review your progress, there are two ways to look at your results: glass is getting fuller, or glass is getting less empty.”

For example, if you are trying to lose weight, you can see things as “I’ve lost seven pounds,” or you can see them as “I still need to lose eighteen pounds to reach my goal weight.”

Or you can compare yourself to 500 kg.

I think this is a great distinction. The first way of looking at things, where you celebrate your progress, is the much healthier and productive attitude.

When you focus on how far you have to go, things can become overwhelming. It’s tempting to say, “What’s the point?” What you do today can seem like a drop in the bucket. The entire time you spend working toward your goal is time you spend feeling inferior, because you haven’t reached your definition of success yet.… Read more