To start the New Year off right, we share on how to kick that blah feeling to the curb!
If you?ve been feeling a little crabby lately — maybe you feel more stressed or extra burdened than ever — it is possible to give yourself a personal reboot and be the kind of person others admire.
Our experts offer seven ways to increase your generosity, patience and tolerance — starting today.
Tip No. 1: Fill Your Personal ?Pitcher?
Before you can be bighearted towards others, you have to do what certified health and wellness coach and registered dietician Adrienne Raimo calls ?filling your pitcher? first. ?This means taking care of yourself and your body,? says Raimo. ?To be the best you can be, do your best to eat well, exercise and reduce stress. Otherwise, you?ll feel depleted.? Tip No. 2: Ask Yourself Some Tough Questions
?The first step to becoming your best self requires brutal honesty,? says Kerry Connelly, a certified life coach. ?Ask yourself what you?re good at, what your faults are and what are the things that repeatedly come up that hold you back. By becoming aware of your constant frustrations and the ways in which you?re responsible for them, you?ll experience a greater sense of peace and well-being.?
Tip No. 3: Find a Way to Be Compassionate
So much of our negative actions are based in fear, says Jen Hancock, author of several books, including The Humanist Approach to Happiness. Ironically, the antidote to that fear is compassion. ?When we view ...