20 Simple ways to live a stress-free happy life

Imagine, what happened today morning when you got up from your bed. You went to brush
your teeth(hope you brushed today), had your morning caffeine or tea, enjoyed your bath,
had a quick breakfast, rushed to your office in your car or public transport.

Back to back meetings, continuous pings in your iPhone, inbox is full and you have to reply
back to your clients & shareholders etc. You hardly have any time for yourself. Your
business or your job as a manger or leader is demanding more time & energy.

You have many unfinished tasks, customer problems to solve, employees emotional
conflicts to resolve and above all the cash flow & profitability queries to the investors.
Above all, handling all the emotional conflicts created by dear colleagues. We go through
a roller coaster of emotions in a single day by investing our time, energy & resources in
the name of survival.

Currently being busy has become your core busyness. Isn't it so?

We hope to make money in such busy transactions, but STRESS gets added up a side effect
& spend all hard earned money to health-care industry.

Being Happy & Stress-free looks like a luxurious commodity in today's busy world.

So,

Are you looking towards a Peaceful, Energetic & Prosperous life?

Do you want to double your happiness this year? It is highly possible in today's chaotic
world.

Allow me to share with you some simple secrets & practices which can make you stress-
free and enhance your happiness levels.

I follow these basic principles & practices in life which keeps me happy all throughout the
day.

If you like this idea, you can pick and choose a few practices and apply it until it becomes
your way of living. You may already be practicing some or all these ideas. Intensify your
awareness & be mindful of every basic action.

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Some basics I can recommend you:

1) Breathing & Meditation/Prayer

2) Keep learning something new every single day - atleast for 15 minutes
3) Helping others
4) Finding out what would motivate myself & do that whenever I dont feel like doing
anything.
5) Connect with new people
6) Contemplate on the highest
7) Some genuine anonymous random acts of kindness
8) Becoming aware of things or events around you
9) Looking at the morning sunrise
10) Looking at the stars & moon at night
11) Appreciate at-least one person a day
12) Silly walks inside the house
13) Talk with kids in different voices; Tell stories to them; Practice mimicry.
14) Strictly NO watching TV
15) Do the daily routines in the same order, so that you dont have to remember them -
saves energy
16) Share your knowledge with others
17) Give what you need the most
18) Thank your parents, teachers, the creator, all events, people around you every single
day before you sleep.
19) Dont Expect, Just Accept!
20) Eat at the right time, sleep at the right time

Some of the ideas above may appear simple, but not easy.

Each idea is like nourishing the roots of your inner being & in due course of daily practice,
you will reap the fruits of happiness, peace & prosperity!

Being Happy is a way of living for me now. If it's possible for me, it means, it's possible for
you too. Just be brilliant@basics in life.

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15 Shocking truths why you are STRESSFUL in life
Warning: This article is not for weak hearts. Read at your own discretion.

Right now, we are living in one of the most technological advanced era when compared to
our parents & ancestors. Everything available in a click of a button.

But can we carry this pride and say that we are the most healthiest & happiest race when
compared to our parents & ancestors.

Our intention in life is to be happy and successful, but our life is always in-tension.

Our intention is to finish work early and spend more time with our kids at home.

In this article, I am going to share with you 15 ways how we add stress into our life
consciously. You can pick and choose any one and STOP doing it. You can increase your
happiness by 25% more. Choice is yours!

1. Eating Junk foods and allowing our tongue to control the food habits

2. No physical exercise and not keeping this machine(body) fit & flexible

3. Not Eating & sleeping at the same time

4. Watching TV & reading newspapers so that mind stays negative 95% of time

5. "I don't know what I want in my life" attitude/mindset

6. Not investing 15-30 minutes daily for continuous learning/self development

7. Believe that I will get some disease by 50 yrs since my parents had it

8. 24X7 think and run for money/survival

9. Develop guilt that you haven't spent time with kids & family

10. Leading daily life based on colleagues/other people's opinion & ideas

11. Not letting go of past traumatic events and holding on to the past incidents & worries
of life

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12. Not forgiving self & others

13. Not following any religious/spiritual practices

14. No time to meditate or pray for self

15. No time to contemplate on the creation/creator/god/who am I/what is life

This list can go on and on. But tell me honestly,

Dont you know that you should exercise regularly?

Dont you know that you should not eat junk foods?

Dont you know that you that prevention is better than cure?

Look at your family or friends who have diabetes, hypertension, back pain, arthritis,
wheezing, obesity etc. They just followed the above 15 points sincerely & religiously.

90% of people believe that they will get some disease by the age of 50 yrs and that's the
usual way to lead their life till they reach the grave. You don't have to follow what 90% of
crowd does, because you end up in what they got in life. You can be the rest 10% who are
very much focused on taking care of their precious body & mind. Because,

You have only one body and there is no alternate available as of now.

Remember, Knowing is not doing; only doing is knowing. Make a commitment to focus on
your OWN self from today onwards.

Be 100% responsible for your health & wellness.

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Simple, Easy & Easier way to Increase your Happiness@Work

Imagine you are holding a glass of water. The absolute weight of the glass doesnt matter. It all
depends on how long I hold it. If you hold it for a minute or two, its fairly light. If you hold it for an
hour straight, its weight might make your arm ache a little. If you hold it for a day straight, your arm
will cramp up and feel completely numb and paralyzed, forcing you to drop the glass to the floor. In
each case, the weight of the glass doesnt change, but the longer you hold it, the heavier it feels to
you.

Similarly your stresses and worries in life are very much like this glass of water. Think about them
for a while and nothing happens. Think about them a bit longer and you begin to ache a little. Think
about them all day long, and you will feel completely numb and paralyzed incapable of doing
anything else until you drop them.

In our daily busy lives, we tend to attract enough negative people, negative events and irritating
moments, which we want to forget, but we don't. Sometimes, we just push our emotions under the
carpet and act as if normal. We have learnt to bury our emotions within us in the name of survival.

Success & Happiness begins when you learn how to let go of your stresses and worries.

The number 1 quality for success in life is "Relaxation". Your intensity of happiness is directly
proportional to your degree of relaxation. No matter what happens during the day, you can put all
your emotional burdens down by practicing simple techniques like deep breathing or psychic sleep.
Many participants who learn & practice daily do not carry the worries & stresses through the night
and into the next day with them. If you feel the weight of yesterdays stress, its a strong sign that
its time to put the glass down.

Allow me to share with you three techniques (simple, easy & easier) which you can apply
in your work-spot. These techniques will increase your happiness and thereby your
productivity & relationships with your peers, supervisor & colleagues. You can even apply
the same in your personal life too.

Simple Technique 1:-

Before you leave office, take a sheet of paper (or even on your comp), list down 5-10 good
things that happened on that day. Talking nice to your colleagues, had a healthy or
sumptuous lunch, got a new sale, solved an issue, meeting a deadline, successful client
servicing, able to inspire one colleague, appreciated somebody & felt happy etc.

You can maintain this as a happiness log or happyness@work journal also. Since many of us
have the tendency to remember the negative experience, it's better to remember the
positive one by writing in this journal.

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Writing at-least 1 positive experience per day means, 22 in a month & 250 plus positive
experiences in one full year. This list will pep you up, motivate you and above all help you
during your half-yearly or annual appraisals.

Remember, the last 5 minutes of every single work day will determine your happiness at
work.

If this exercise sounds boring, then let me share with you an easy way & an easier way.

Easy Technique 2:-

Can you invest just 8 seconds of this easy way.

Thats all I am going to ask you now.

Bring your entire attention to the tip of your nose & take just one full deep breath
mindfully. Feel the chillness of the air as your breathe in for 4 seconds & feel the hot air
coming out as you breathe out for 4 seconds. You can mentally count 1-4 for inhale and 5-
8 for exhale.

Can you do this without getting distracted?

One mindful breath & you are done with todays meditation.
Nevertheless, One mindful breath a day, keeps your unhappiness away!

Easier Technique 3: -
Everyday, when you enter your work-spot, at random look at any two people and mentally
tell I want this person to be happy. Start doing this exercise, you will suddenly find that
you are filled with lots of happiness & good things happen in your life.
If you like any one of the above 3, then, pick that one & start the practice for the next 21
days till it becomes a habit for you.

Practice promotes habits and habits deliver results.

Happyness@work = Super charged, Exciting, Rewarding, Energizing, Fun.

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Being Mindful can relieve you from STRESS
Mind is like a monkey, keeps jumping between past and future or the fantasy channel.

Alan Cohen says Imagine two lawyers in a courtroom inside your head.

One is arguing for your possibilities and you achieving your goals. The other is arguing for
your limits and why you dont deserve what you want. Who will win? The lawyer whom you
pay the most. The way you pay these lawyers, however, is not with money; it is with your
attention.

Where your attention goes, your mind & energy flows there.

Your mind plays a major role in holding your current attention.

But your mind is always on an excursion mode.

Mind keeps travelling between your past and future or to the fantasy world. Hence, your
attention keeps wandering.

Lets test it now...Ask yourself what were you thinking few minutes before - I am for sure
your mind was thinking about any one issue/situation in any one of the three realms (past,
future or fantasy).

Its like riding your bicycle. By continuous microscopic adjustment of the cycle bar to the
left or right, we travel straight in a cycle. Your mind will keep jumping, but it is your
responsibility to tie to the present moment awareness.

You want more success & money in your life.

You want more happiness & better health in your life.

Success, Happiness, Health & Money are possible only in the present moment and do not
exist in the past or the future.

So, the starting point for any success journey begins by taming your powerful mind to stay
in the present moment.

Training your mind to be in the present moment is the key for perennial source of
happiness & health.

The first and foremost skill to learn before any other skill is being mindful. When you learn
to become mindful, you can take action faster than anybody else.

The only difference between a successful and un-successful person is the former takes
ACTION.

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Mindfulness is the first step towards taking Action in life.

Ive found a more mindful life to be one of the best changes possible. Just a few of the
benefits of mindfulness that Ive discovered:

Youre more present, which means youre not missing great moments by thinking about
other things
You are more connected with people youre with
You are more aware of urges, which means you can better change your habits
You notice your resistance, and negative self-talk, which means youre not powerless to
them
Life becomes better when you savour it.

There are a bunch of health benefits, too, but beyond all the benefits, a mindful life is
just a joy to live. Its not necessarily a means to an end its an end itself.

How to Be Mindful?

1. Do one thing at a time. Do Single-task and a big NO to multi-task. Remember the Zen
proverb: When walking, walk. When eating, eat.

2. Do it slowly and deliberately.

3. Do less. If you do less, you can do those things more slowly, more completely and with
more concentration.

4. Spend at least 5 minutes each day doing nothing. Just sit in silence. Become aware of
your thoughts. Focus on your breathing. Notice the world around you. Become comfortable
with the silence and stillness. Itll do you a world of good and just takes 5 minutes!

6. Stop worrying about the future focus on the present. Just focus on what youre doing,
right now. Enjoy the present moment.

7. When youre talking to someone, be present. Focus on being present, enjoy your time
listening to that person.

8. Keep practicing. When you get frustrated, just take a deep breath. When you ask
yourself, What should I do now, Self? the answer is keep practicing.

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There are many practical & simple mindfulness practices which I had taught many students
in my Breath@Work seminar. By putting them in daily schedule, they have seen numerous
physical, mental, emotional benefits which has helped them to achieve peak performance
& happiness.

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