okay first of all before I continue I got new hair I mean a new hair color that sounded weird
I feel like I've gotten used to it pretty quickly so it doesn't feel like that much of a change but
if you look back at my older videos I have like kinda dark dirty blonde hair but now it's kind
of like an ashy much much paler blonde I was going for kind of a gray and I don't know how
great it turned out but I like it anyways so yeah I just wanted to point that out before I
started today's video is about happiness and how to find it I realize this sounds kind of like a
deep and philosophical topic but I promise I'm gonna have like concrete tips and I'm not just
gonna talk about the meaning of life but I do want to start with a little bit of cheesiness
something I've noticed as I've gotten older I'm seventeen so it's not like I'm super old
but something I've noticed is that a happiness isn't necessarily like doing exciting things
all the time or not having to do any work and just being able to go on vacations all
the time that makes you happy but it's not the kind of deep happiness that you want in life I
don't know if that makes sense but happiness is more like just appreciating what you have in the
moment taking care of yourself and also working hard because working hard on things that you're
passionate about gives you a sense of purpose and I just don't think that you can be happy
without a sense of purpose now I think when people hear appreciating what you have they
think of like settling and that's not really what I mean by appreciating what you have it's
not really settling with what you have it's more like celebrating what you have it's not
accepting the fact that you don't have cool things that you really want but it's looking
at all of the cool things and opportunities that you do have and just choosing to be happy about
that basically happiness is like a constant celebration a constant party in your mind
because you choose to the that way you choose to view it as something that should be celebrated
now I know that sometimes there are life situations in which it's really hard to find
anything to celebrate about and I hope that you never find yourself in a situation where there's
nothing to celebrate or be hopeful about these are tips for when you're kind of feeling down when you
don't have a lot of energy for life they're not going to fix everything but they will make life
a little bit brighter unlike the scene that I have outside right now supposedly it's the summer
solstice today I'm filming this on June 21st but it has been either drizzling or pouring or very
very cloudy this entire week but I'm staying positive with these tips so we're just gonna
get straight into it my first tip is the daily 9th if you do any one thing out of this video please
choose this one it'll take like 3 minutes out of your day and it is seriously going to make such a
big impact what I mean by the daily 9 is in the morning write down three things you're excited
about for the day and then before you go to bed write down three things you are grateful for that
day and three winds or like big accomplishments for the day you gotta pat yourself on the back
you know just making those three tiny lists every day is gonna make such a big difference because it
puts you in a constant state of positivity in the morning you're shifting your focus to the
good things that you're looking forward to and then even if you have a bad day in the evening
you're shifting your focus to the little good things that happen you are making the decision
to ignore the bad things so like in the morning you're not going to wake up and make a list of
things you're dreading before you go to bed you're not gonna make a list of things that suck that day
and things I screwed up on you're gonna start your day and end your day with a positive mindset and
you can't underestimate the power of this it honestly makes such a big difference my second
tip is just in general making lists I think list making is so powerful our minds are already kind
of naturally inclined to make lists but they're not always the kind of list that we want to make
for example have you ever had a really bad day and you just start making a list of the things
that are going wrong because like later in the day want to go and complain to your friend about
it or something I know complaining is fun and like there's nothing wrong with laughing at
your own struggle because that can help you keep a positive attitude but we can't have this negative
track running in our heads throughout the day we need to switch to a positive mindset and so if you
find yourself making these negative lists in your head stop drop and roll no stop and start making
a positive list start listing all of the things you're grateful for don't just stop at 3 go for 10
go for 50 go crazy go 400 things you're grateful for sometimes our minds get into like subconscious
patterns but the important thing to remember is that we have the power to override those patterns
we can establish our own patterns so make lists number three is breathing fresh air you don't have
to go up for a run if you don't like running I get it maybe put in some music or podcast or just
even walk in silence that can be really nice too and it can help you clear your mind I think just
being outside so powerful because nature is huge and it reminds us how small our problems are even
when we feel completely overwhelmed and like our lives are about to fall apart nature just
continues on nature doesn't care nature just keeps running and I think reminding yourself of that is
a really good way to like balance and ground yourself if you have a really busy day or you
just don't feel like going on a walk at the very least go like run an errand that requires you to
get out of your house I don't know if this applies to everyone but at least for me I know when I am
at home for too long it's kind of like my vision narrows and I only see what's stressing me out
and my problems and then when I step out of the house and I have to go do something where there's
a bunch of people around I just remember how big the world is and how and I realized how much I've
like over-exaggerated my own problems number four start a 1 second add a video this is something I
started doing this year I don't know it's kind of self-explanatory you take a 1 second video
clip every single day and then you stitch that together and get like this really long video of
your life so if you had a bad day there had to be like one good second in there one beautiful view
that you saw or one smile that you shared with a friend something good had to happen and by taking
that one little video clip and then bring it all together into one video you're choosing to focus
only on the good parts of those days and as your video grows and grows you can play it back and
see all the beautiful things in your life that you have to be grateful for tip number five is
during yoga I know some of you watching this might be thinking okay this is where I'm gonna end the
video but please don't leave even if you think Yoga is like a little booboo for your tastes I
think yoga can help everyone especially if you currently don't have a really great relationship
with your body and you need to kind of connect with your body again I know I know this all sounds
weird like mind-body connection but trust me um or if you feel like you're like a mindless exerciser
and you just go do it because you feel like you have to and you don't really pay attention to how
you're feeling Yoga will help with all of that and you're gonna help you feel happier I personally
love watching yoga with Adriene I think Adriene is perfect at like keeping the mood light but
also dropping some really deep life lessons on you while you're dying because you're holding a plank
I think the thing that I love most about yoga is how taught me to really appreciate the burn of
exercising in a lot of workout videos you're just going going going the entire time feeling the burn
getting ripped but you're not giving your body a chance to relax at all but in yoga or at least the
yoga videos that I do on yoga with Adriene even the videos that like focus purely on strengthening
the core you do a core exercise and you feel the burn and you feel really tired and sweaty and then
you just take a little break and get a moment to think about how you feel and how good it feels to
like finally relax your muscles and I am going to get a little philosophical here watch out I think
this is a good metaphor for life you know how they say you can't have like the happy moments if you
don't also have the low moments to contrast them against so in yoga you can't feel that amazing
sense of like accomplishment and release and relaxation if you don't have the really difficult
exercise that came before it and in life your hardships once you get through them they can
serve as a really nice conscious for the happiness that you can feel later so ya find any yoga video
on YouTube there's plenty of channels out there but again I highly recommend yoga with Adriene
I want to be best friends with Adriene honestly even if you think yoga's dumb just try a couple
of videos it's not gonna hurt you tip number six is just stop take a deep breath feel how good it
feels to fill your lungs with fresh air feel the ground beneath you or a chair whatever you're
sitting on whatever's supporting you doesn't that feel amazing you might feel looking at me like I'm
crazy and I'm not like a meditation teacher or anything so I don't really know how that
looked on video recognizing that in this very moment you are doing fine you are breathing you
can choose to smile you can choose to be happy in this moment because nothing is wrong in this
moment no matter what you always have yourself your body your your home basically that you can
return to now if not all of us are lucky enough to have a fully functioning or healthy body but
just appreciate the health that you do have and just how good it feels to be sitting here enjoying
life watching this video that's the feeling that you can always return to no matter how overwhelmed
you feel just return to the present moment and if that feels really hard for you you can always
practice meditation just learning how to redirect your own thoughts to not get overwhelmed all right
that's it that's all I have for you today six tips to feel happier so I do this with this six
tips to help you feel happier and more grateful every single day of your life I hope you enjoyed
this video I genuinely hope that it helped you no one is happy a hundred percent of the time
but we can try our best in the circumstances that we have if you enjoyed this video please
like and don't forget to subscribe to my channel I have so many videos planned on Sunday I'm coming
out with my weekly planning routine video which I'm really excited about I'm also going on a big
trip really soon to like the Baltimore DC New York area that I can't wait to share with you
guys so even though it's raining I'm gonna try have a happy rest of my day and you should to
bye