alright guys in this video we're gonna be going over 10 habits of happy people
now you can look at happy people and understand that they have these habits
but the important thing is is to try to implement these habits into your
lifestyle so the first one is gratefulness and of course if you can
wake up and just be grateful about something you're automatically gonna be
happier I mean have you ever woken up and just went today's gonna be a bad day
the bad things are gonna happen I'm not gonna enjoy doing this task in that task
and I have to hang around these people you're obviously not even happy at the
start of the day so how are you gonna get happier if you start your day with
gratefulness and that positivity you're already going to be forcing your brain
to think of ways to be happier - number 2 is optimism and that goes with
gratefulness optimism is having a positive view of the world and the
future outcomes of it now it's important to differentiate optimism from realistic
optimism and optimism is like over the top almost blindly looking at things
that they're going to be great and realistic optimism is something that I
think everyone should strive for it having that that counterbalance between
things are gonna be great but we're also gonna have to get work done and if you
can get those gratefulness and optimism together that's already a great habit to
start your day with just come up with affirmations you know today's gonna be
great I'm gonna get a ton of work done I'm gonna meet this someone special in
my life and if I already have them I'm gonna care for them even more than
yesterday tip number three is to smile a lot there's a lot of psychological
reasoning behind forcing yourself to smile but if you can put yourself in
situations that you know will make you smile like going to the checkout and
seeing that cute girl that you liked that will make you smile that's a habit
of happy people they love putting themselves in situations where they will
smile a lot whether that is setting up a family reunion so you can see your
family more often we're traveling to see your cousin or like I said earlier going
to the grocery store to buy something so you can see that cute cashier - number
four is to have a lot of friends and the important thing here is to have high
quality friends there's a lot of toxic people in the world and the important
thing is and something that's very valuable is to be able to look at
friends subjectively and go wow this person is in my life for a reason they
add benefit to me I love being around them they're sticking with me for the
rest of my life you can make yourself have more of those
friends long-term friendships that last a long time and are solid and concrete
that will help you be exponentially happy because friends have a lot of
psychological aspects that help you network and be a happier person tip
number five ties into that and it's to weed out bad friends now in your search
to have a whole bunch of high quality friends probably 80 to 90% of the people
that you meet are going to be low-quality bad friends toxic people
that you need to get out of your life and for some people it's really hard to
get rid of these people specifically because they don't want to be seen as
pushy or push over or rude when they're canceling plans with someone but that is
needed a lot of time to make yourself better to be happier is just getting rid
of that friend or those friends and there is a skill to this tip number six
is that take breaks often when you work and I actually found this in one study
that I read what they did was they had people who didn't take breaks at all
they'd worked for eight hours straight and then they also took people who took
breaks like ten minutes every hour and what they found was the people that took
breaks every hour actually had less working time but they were happier and
their productivity was boosted and they actually got more work done than the
people who worked the full eight hours and it's really interesting because when
you take breaks you start to become it gives you that time to be grateful for
stuff it also gives you something to look forward to and you can be
optimistic about that tip number seven is to set SMART goals and I mentioned
this in another video so check that out if you want a better description of that
but basically set goals that are achievable that you can reach in a
timely manner that when you reach them they will boost your motivation and
setting a goal should motivate you but reaching a goal should bring you a lot
of joy it can bring you happiness and that's one of the habits that happy
people have is they don't just go through life without goals they set
goals and they go boom I'm gonna get that goal and I'm gonna get that goal
and I'm gonna get that goal and then each time they get them they get more
motivation and more discipline and more success with each goal tip number eight
is that when happy people get sad what happens is they force themselves to
learn something new and I didn't realize this until I was probably 19 years old
and I went through some spouts of depression and there were some times in
my life I was sad and they were had things happening in me but what
happened was I just started forcing myself to learn I learned how to make
youtube videos I learned how to play the piano I learned how to go outside and
make new friends and what happened was having that creativity in your brain
unlocking those new neurons actually can help your brain be healthier and in turn
make you a happier person so whenever you get down or sad or interrupt one of
the best things I can ever recommend you to do is to learn something new now it's
important to learn something new that you're curious about because I was like
yeah I could learn something new about learning the guitar I don't really want
to learn to play the guitar but the piano man that would be so cool to learn
and I was curious about it and that drove me to learn it and that got me out
of a hard part of my life habit number nine of happy people is that they take
care of themselves first so if you've ever been on an airplane when they're
going through the instructions and everyone's getting seated they say in
the case of an emergency do not take your mask down and try to help your
children first what they say is put your mask on first so that you can help the
people around you and that's really important in self-development and
personal development and specifically happy people they take care of
themselves first so that they can help other people you can't help other people
if you're not happy or you're depressed or you're down or even if you're
financially broken you can't help other people but that leads us to have it
number 10 even though they take care of themselves first habit number 10 is that
they understand the value of helping people and for me one of the things that
brings me the largest amount of happiness at least in my eyes is that I
get to add tons of value to your guys's lives not only in multitude but also in
magnitude on some of these videos I put a lot of effort in and I know they reach
a ton of people but some of the videos I put even more effort in when they don't
reach very many maybe 10,000 20,000 views but I know that people that watch
that video needed that and that it helped them even more and that brings me
a lot of value so you have to understand the value of helping others and that's
something else after you learn something new if you're ever in a pit or you're
feeling down if you're just feeling depressed almost the first thing I would
recommend is to learn something new and if that doesn't help then you need to
focus on helping other people and that's something that I've learned is that when
you help other people it starts making you curious
it takes the focus off of yourself and you're not worried about the internal
cycle of what's going through your mind and worrying and stuff and you're more
worried about helping that other person and it's more productive and it makes
you a better person because you're helping them and in turn all of this
mixes and meshes ups and can help you become a happier person so we're gonna
go through a little review habit number one of happy people is that they are
grateful habit number two is that they are optimistic habit three is that they
smile a lot either that they force themselves to smile or they put
themselves in situations where they know that they will smile habit number four
is that they have lots of high-quality valuable friends habit number five is
that if they have bad friends they acquire and learn the skills needed to
get rid of them or at least reduce the amount of them in their life habit
number six is to take frequent breaks when they are working habit number seven
is to set SMART goals habit number eight is that whenever they get sad they learn
something new have a number nine is that they take care of themselves first and
have a number ten is that when they do they still understand the value of
helping other people I hope this helped you guys because it brought me a lot of
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