Conversation Starter of the Week
Three tips to add happiness
to everyday.
Conversation with Yourself
Feelings are the root of everything. It is hard to
have "get up and go" if you feel like everything on your to-do
list for the coming day revolves around the agenda of other people. Feeling
good is an inside job and revolves a lot around how we talk to ourselves.
Instead of waking up and focusing on how you have to deal with people you may
not like or do work that is not in the field for which you have been trained,
change the conversation with yourself. The new conversation may sound
something like this " I am right where I should be, make the most out of
it."
3 Tips to add happiness to everyday.
1. Begin each day by saying something wonderful to
yourself before you get out of bed. For example, start by
thanking God for my life and then stating that all that I
am doing to make my dreams a reality is enough.
2. Include one thing on your to do list that is for
you and your benefit, like a walk, quiet
time, exercise or all three. You get it.
3. End each day by connecting with five events of
the day that your are thankful for, writing
them down is a nice exercise.
These three easy tips will hopefully fill you more
good feelings and they are strategies to get you out of a rut of not so good
feelings. When you are happy and taking care of yourself you are able to share
so much more of your unique gifts with the world.
As you begin to add activities to your to-do list
that are for you everyday this aligns your day with something that is important
to you. This is vital to connecting each day with your vision for yourself.
Shoot me an email with what you are adding to your
daily agenda. If you have a lot in your head and can't prioritize what to add
because there is so much swirling around in that brain of yours
click here and
schedule a complimentary 30 minute One Jazzy Life Discovery Session.
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30 minute One Jazzy Life Discovery Session to start the
conversation about how to invest your time to reflect your One Jazzy Life
Agenda.
Conversation with Mentee
Happiness and young people is a mixed bag if I have
ever seen one. Many young people long to have more control over their lives
than they currently do and that is why sharing these three tips with them can
be transformative.
As a swim coach, I have always been big on self-
talk because what you say to yourself is what you truly believe. There is the
old saying that if you say you can't you probably won't.
The flip side of this is step one, having your
mentee get into the practice of saying something good to themselves everyday.
This gives them a strategy to change the conversation tape playing in their
head whenever they see fit.
With the second tip you can teach your mentee to
have their self care on their agenda everyday and the third tip develops the
skill of recognizing what is good in life. Even in the mist of a messed up
family, relationships that I was not ready for and swimming races I won and
lost, as a young person I remember being thankful for many things. I remember
being thankful for conversations with my grandfather every Sunday, it seems
simple but it was one of those things I was thankful for and one that kept me
going.
Developing the practice of positive self- talk,
keeping yourself on your daily agenda and recognizing what is good are all
habits that you can work with your mentee to develop and sustain.
As always, when share your experience with
your mentee, she can see herself in your journey. Experiences are good
teaching tools.
If you have a group of high school or middle school
girls that you think could benefit from increasing confidence by learning
cutting edge communication strategies to manage perceptions, improve
speaking and much more, check out my movement WHY WAIT.
I will be launching an online summer training real soon. The mission is to get
young people dreaming, speaking and performing like there is a bright future
for them to be a part of.
By Janice Saunders
The Jazzy Life Expert
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