30 Day Happiness Challenge – 8 Fun Ideas To Try Out
Looking for a 30 Day Happiness Challenge? Here are 8 great happiness challenges that will make you even HAPPIER.
Looking for a 30 day happiness challenge?
If so, you are in the perfect place.
If you have ever wanted to be happier I have 8 ideas for 30 day happiness challenges that you can try.
But first things first: you need to know that happiness is actually your natural state. You don’t really need any more material possessions in order to be happy, but there are things that can prevent your happiness from shining through.
30 Day Happiness Challenge
Happiness is the default state. It’s what’s there when you remove the sense that something is missing in life. Naval Ravikant
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison
Over time, many of us develop bad habits that block our experience of happiness.
But the great news is with a little bit of work, you can reprogram yourself to eliminate many of those things that limit your happiness.
Can you actually train yourself to be happier in just 30 days? Let’s find out!
Try these 8 strategies to perform the 30 day happiness challenge:
30 DAY HAPPINESS CHALLENGE
# 1 – Keep a gratitude diary.
Each day for the next 30 days, list 10 things that make you feel grateful.
The challenging part is that each day must have 10 unique items! No repeats.
- Try to do this early in the day. You’ll find that it puts you in a great frame of mind for the rest of the day.
We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. Frederick Keonig
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. Earl Nightingale
30 DAY HAPPINESS CHALLENGE
# 2 – Spend 10 minutes visualizing your ideal future.
It’s nice to have something pleasant to look forward to.
So, spend a few minutes each day visualizing what you want your life to be.
- Choose a vision that excites you but is also somewhat reasonable.
- (For the record dreaming of marrying your favorite actor who is already happily married might count as unreasonable).
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Shoot for something that’s appealing but within the realm of possibility.
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? Hunter S. Thompson
30 DAY HAPPINESS CHALLENGE
# 3 – Set a small goal that can be accomplished in 30 days and spend at least 10 minutes each day working toward it.
Set a 30-day goal that’s meaningful to you.
Make yourself spend a few minutes working toward that goal each and every day. A few examples include:
- Losing 10 pounds.
- Redoing all of your landscaping.
- Cleaning out the basement.
- Writing 2 pages each day for your book.
- Meditating each day for 30 days.
Once you have set your goal, it’s time to get to work! You have 30 days to complete it – plenty of time to focus, plan and take proactive steps!
30 DAY HAPPINESS CHALLENGE
# 4 – Give at least two compliments each day.
Give yourself and another person each one compliment each day.
Feel free to give more.
You’ll feel good about yourself for making someone else feel good.
And you’ll be making yourself feel good, too, in the process.
If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. Chinese proverb
30 DAY HAPPINESS CHALLENGE
# 5 – Catch and stop all negative thoughts.
Has lingering on your negative thoughts ever helped you?
Of course not.
Catch yourself when you’re dwelling on a negative thought and think about something else instead.
It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. Dale Carnegie
It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. Dale Carnegie
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. Marcus Aurelius
30 DAY HAPPINESS CHALLENGE
# 6 – Focus on solutions instead of problems.
Everyone has challenges.
Stopping your negative thoughts doesn’t mean ignoring your issues.
Instead, recognize that there are things in your life that need to be addressed and focus on resolving them, rather than worrying about them.
- For 30 days, give up worrying and focus on solving. Your life will improve dramatically and so will your attitude.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Denis Waitley
30 DAY HAPPINESS CHALLENGE
# 7 – Eliminate sugar from your diet.
For just 30 days, give up all foods with added sugar.
You can expect to feel worse for a few days, but you’ll be happy with how you feel by the end of the month.
I myself was sugar-free for 18 months and I never felt more healthy than during that period.
30 DAY HAPPINESS CHALLENGE
# 8 – Create a list of 30 things you can do over the 30 days.
Have something planned for each day for the next month.
These are little, or big, things you can do that will increase your happiness.
A few examples include:
- Calling your college roommate.
- Meeting an old friend for lunch.
- Trying a new restaurant.
- Reading an inspiring book.
- Watching your favorite movie.
Happiness is the experience of loving life. Being happy is being in love with that momentary experience. And love is looking at someone or even something and seeing the absolute best in him/her or it. Love is happiness with what you see. So love and happiness really are the same thing…just expressed differently. Robert McPhillips
The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. William Morris
In the end, happiness doesn’t have to be elusive.
In our endeavor to find happiness, we often focus on the wrong things and ignore the right things.
All in all, we often have more negative thoughts than positive ones and we also spend way too much time thinking about the past and the future.
But this means we end up training ourselves to be unhappy, instead.
Wouldn’t you rather train yourself to be happy?
30 Day Happiness Challenge
You can do this!
Give yourself 30 days to prove it to yourself. You can feel totally different in exactly a month!
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy. Robert Anthony
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. Jim Rohn
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. Bertrand Russell
If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you. Lao Tzu
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. Barbara DeAngelis
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