Morning peeps! It's 6.20am in the morning and feeling very excited today! What would I be excited for? Well, just to be able to continue your life and being grateful for having this "present" day. And what else? It's time for me to start a series of blog posts to help you (and myself) think positively, and have better attitude. Well I should cover the ground first eh?
There is no use going to apply sophisticated psychological philosophical theory to improve your life. The key of any successful self-improvement is to improve your basic self. Starting with small simple things that we often overlook. We cannot move a mountain at once right? We have to start somewhere, a load at a timeSo what can we do for a start? Here are some of the examples
Wake up early in the morning. And pray/warm-up/exercise. Yep this helps a lot, and I experienced it myself. I think I changed a lot since I managed to wake up around 5.30-6am-ish. I have not missed my Subuh anymore and my brain instantly wake up after the prayer. It must be something to do with blood circulation in the brain. I feel happier, and never had more (quality) time to myself than ever before! For the non-muslims you can always do some yoga or pilates or any simple workouts. Dancing to the morning tunes doesn't hurt either!
Hug/Kiss at least one family member. The more the merrier. A group hug is also cool. This way you can share your happiness to your loved ones as well.
Minimise the words "No", "Don't" and "Can't/Couldn't" in your conversations. And all other words that convey negative feelings. Change with more positive alternatives and proper suggestions like "you could do this" or "you can try doing it differently". Those negtaive word "NO" is always giving mental block to the listeners/recipients. Using positive sentences on the other hand could help solving problems and much more fun to remember!
Make a mental list of your today activities. This way it helps to prioritise your work. Will elaborate this in the future beacuse me myself have not yet do this effectively. But do try and tell me if it works!
Give way to others. This always works for me. I drive my nephew and niece to their school/kinder five days a week. That is approximately about 40 min. to 1+ hour return journey. Multiply it by 2 (each for sending and picking up after school) and you get nearly 2 hours stuck spent in car alone..not including work and other activities. People tend to rush to "save time". But usually ended up frustrated with all of the jams, the inconsiderate drivers etc etc...So what do you do? Don't follow the selfish road user and be grumpy, be a selfless driver and give way to others! It help smoothens out the traffic, it put smiles on the other drivers faces AND it holds the inconsiderate drivers to behave like a jerk (failed) F1 drivers (hurm hurm...). This applies to holding doors/elevator doors to others as well. and don't forget to
...And smile/wave to them. Don't forget to do this even if it's impossible for the others to notice you. Because the action doesn't only affect the others but it affect you as well. And when they do notice, the positive "aura" will flow to them as well, and that is a good thing...it could make their day much much better! (especially if you are kinda...hot? hahaha!).
I think that is enough eyh? Try these tips first and I'll come up with more! Hopefully we can be a better person today and tomorow and the next day and the next day and the....
