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Understanding what happiness is and knowing how you can achieve it through honesty is not enough to sustain it all throughout your life. You must find activities that you can incorporate in your daily life to keep you happy. Below are some activities that are known to help keep the happy energy flowing. You don’t need to do all of them. Find one that appeals to you the most and stick to it and notice the change in you as the days go by:
Yoga.
This seemingly exclusive and difficult practice is in fact one of the best ways to find and sustain happiness.
Often times, when people hear the word yoga, they think of complicated poses that only people with extreme flexibility can achieve. Many miss out on the true principles of yoga.
The practice of yoga aims to unite the body, mind and soul. This union is in itself what is called yoga. This is the goal of this practice and there are many paths that a yogi can take to achieve oneness. The poses (asanas), meditation and the breathing techniques (pranayama) are just some of the ways to help quiet the mind and find the connection to your body and soul.
Yoga practitioners are also invited to live a life that focuses on loving kindness compassion not just for one’s self but also for others. It involves taking care of your body, mind, heart and soul.
Yoga can help you see the true you—a person that is one with the universe and with everything that has life. It will reveal to you how you are entwined with the divine. That’s why every yoga practice ends with “Namaste” which means, “I bow to the Divine in you.”
Meditation.
When your mind is quiet, you are able to hear the callings of your heart and soul. It is in this stillness that you can practice pure honesty.
When you are in a meditative state, you are able to turn off the noise and static from the outside world. And when your mind is quiet, you are able to listen and heed the call of the universe. A call that is attuned to your true purpose and calling.
Music.
Allow your soul to speak. Music is the language of the soul. When you make music, the thinking stops and the feeling starts.
Sing your heart out. It doesn’t matter if you can carry a tune or not. Sing from your heart and sing from your soul. Allow your voice to float into the universe. Play an instrument if you can. And even if you are unable to do so, don’t deny yourself the right to enjoy music when you hear one.
No matter what language you speak, music will give you the power to connect with another soul. It knows no nationality, boundaries and time. It is eternal and it is pure. It is true. It is honest.
Writing.
Writing is a form of meditation. When you are writing, you are able to shift our focus to the present moment. It is a way to get to know you. Your thoughts and feelings become real when you write them down on paper.
Don’t be afraid to put on paper what is in your head and in your heart. Allow them to guide your hand and watch as your reality begins to unfold right before your eyes.
Playtime.
Give yourself permission to be silly. Allow the child in you to come out and play.
Be amazed at the world. Dive into it with the enthusiasm and energy of a child. Find delight in the simple things and for once, let go of the grown up in you.
Find activities that you like. It can be a sport or a hobby. You don’t have to be good at it. You just have to love it enough to find joy in it.
Dance.
Dance like no one is watching. Move with the wind. Dance every chance you get.
It doesn’t matter if you know the steps. You may even miss the beat and that’s okay. Make the moves up as you go. Allow your intuition to lead you and find bliss in the freedom to move.
Pay it forward.
Give back to the universe and to the people around you a little piece of you. To be alive in this world is already a tremendous blessing and gift to have. Whether it is your money, help or time that you give, no matter how small it may seem, sharing a small part of that to world without expecting anything in return will bring you unexplainable happiness. Generosity breeds happiness.
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1 -Fact About First Impressions
2 - Power of a First Impression
3 –Build -up Your Good First Impression
5 – Making a great impression always stay
No matter how carefully you guard your reputation or craft your life and career, it can all come crashing down even just after the first impression. It may sound like an overstatement but, it is the truth. It happens.
Here are three very essential things to know about first impressions.
First Impressions Form Fast
Do you know how long it takes before that someone you’re with on a blind date figures out you’re not his or her type? Less than 2 minutes! What about that job interview? How long does it take before managers decide whether or not you are a good fit? Within the first 7 seconds of looking at your resume, 13 seconds after looking up your LinkedIn profile, 10 seconds of going through your Facebook Page and the first 30 seconds of the initial interview.
A West Coast radio station going through their poll records, discovered that parents out to determine whether a guy was good for their daughter took as much time as “half-way through dinner” in the 1950’s to “As soon as I saw what he was wearing to school” at the start of the Millennium.
It doesn’t take long for any type of first impression to form. Nowadays, you don’t even need a face-to-face encounter especially, with algorithms that can lift data from your online records (DMV, police, employment and even social media) and form opinions or virtual impressions in nanoseconds. And before you say, “But wait until they see me” understand that these virtual first impressions often determine whether a real-life encounter will be the next step.
Whether it’s a face-to-face encounter with a blind date, a job interview, or a post, tweet or a personality profile survey that you filled out ages ago, be sure that someone, possibly a future spouse, incoming boss, or mother-in-law, will pick it up and forming a first impression that will significantly affect the way they look at you.
First Impressions Last
This is the scary part.
In this world of facial recognition, factoids and sound bites, the algorithms that already exist to draw conclusions from all these known sources of data about you have become adept at formulating conclusions quickly about the character and personality of a person. And because these are known to have been drawn from facts, the accuracy and reliability is somewhat "spot on" to a certain degree that those who use it such as police, hiring managers, even blind-date seekers accept these without question. Therefore, when these good people go into their first meeting with you, they already have a first impression that is fairly difficult to challenge. In fact, in most cases, the reliance on that virtual first impression is so much that they would not bother to meet you at all, or worse, you get labeled as a suspect or tagged as a potential offender.
The hard part is once that is formed, the burden of proving that first impression false is heavy and solely on your shoulders. The uncomfortable truth is that not only is your window for establishing a good impression been reduced to minutes and seconds, it is also hard to remove, change or correct.
Should you care?
Contrary to the opinion that you shouldn’t care less about what other people think, you should.
Why?
First Impressions are Difficult to Change
That is correct. Like a deep rooted weed, an unfavorable first impression takes great effort to change.
Consider the following stories:
A young woman started out as a blogger with a New York wild streak as evidenced by pictures of herself acting crazy in late night parties. When she decided to become conservative and religious, people who only knew about her from her Facebook pictures, found it difficult to connect what she was then to who she was now. Even though the pictures were now deleted from her Facebook, they still continued to be a reminder of who she once was and kept going in the way of moving forward with her new-found lifestyle. She had to move west, drop a lot of friends and overhaul her Facebook page before the negative first impressions died out.
Another young woman who had tattoos running down her arms had a challenge finding a job inspite of glowing degrees in college. The first impressions after seeing them caused people to take her less seriously; leading to a lot of rejections from many firms causing her to seek less than desirable employment in order to survive.
A PR executive once tweeted an offhand remark before boarding a flight. By the time, she arrived at her destination; her seemingly-innocent tweet had gone viral and elicited a negative backlash that got her fired. That also left a first impression that virtually portrayed her as a racist and a sexist even though that was totally untrue. It gave her a difficult time finding a job. When she eventually got one, it was only because her employer chose to ignore his first impressions and look beyond the negative publicity about her.
A woman was once asked how long it took her mother to change her pinion about her husband. She responded, “thirty-seven years before she let go of this image of a dirt-poor-good for nothing high school kid!”
Finally, a 5-year old drew a picture of her mom doing what looked like a pole dance with lots on onlookers waving money. That resulted into a first impression that drew snide remarks from teachers, parents and students alike. Inspite of months of explanation that the picture was of her mom, who worked at the local Wal-Mart, showing the last snow shovel to a group of eager customers, the child’s poor mother was still enduring catcalls and uncalled-for solicitations.
What do all these stories illustrate?
First impression, no matter how wrong, can be hard to forget. What has taken just mere seconds to form will take years and a lot of effort to wipe out.
That is how critical first impressions are.
