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Having life or relationship goals means thinking about what you want to do in the future, whether alone or with someone else.

It’s like making a plan for your life. You set goals and work toward them, but sometimes things might not go as planned, and you have to stay open to new ideas.

It’s also about learning and growing as a person while building good relationships with others. Setting goals helps you focus on what makes you happy, and when you work on them, you get closer to a happy life.

The next steps will show you how to make your happiness goals something you can really achieve, helping you stay on track with what you want in life.

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Book: Happy Mind Happy Life - Rangan Chatterjee 2022

Define your happiness habits

Write down three things that give you an intense feeling of well being: let's call them Happiness Habits. See if you can do them each week.

For example, a successful week might include a walk in nature, an Epsom Salt bath, and three meals at the table with your family.

Or it might be spending time with one of your close friends, time to play your guitar, and going out to lunch with your mom.

Your Happiness Habits will be unique to you.

Over time you can increase the number of Happiness Habits slowly but surely.

You may not manage to do them all every week but the practice of defining them and assessing how many you have done, will help you counteract the happiness - killing effect of the ( consumption) world.

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Creating and adjusting life and relationship goals is like making a plan for your future and checking if you're on the right path.

Sometimes, things change, and we need to update our goals so they still fit who we are and what we want. It's important to set goals that are possible to reach, and that keep us growing, both on our own and with others. In a relationship, both people should feel like their goals matter and can change together.

This means listening to each other, respecting boundaries, and working together to support those goals. By checking in and adjusting goals as life moves forward, you can keep things balanced and stay focused on what makes you both happy.

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Book: Why has nobody told me this before? By Dr Julie Smith 2022 On Stress

30. Making stress work for you - Goals Topic

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Changing something simple as how you breathe will impact on your stress levels.

Science is showing us that meditation has a significant on the brain and how we deal with stress.

Connecting with others helps us recover from stress.

Social isolation puts the mind and body under great stress.

Goals founded in contribution rather than competition helps us to stay motivated and persevere under stress.

Seek out experiences of awe to shift your perspective.

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Book: Happy Mind Happy Life - Rangan Chatterjee 2022

Write your Happy ending

Now take a moment to write down what a happy life looks like for you.

Imagine that you are on your deathbed.

Looking back, what are the most important things you will want to have done in order to feel happy and content?

This is an incredibly useful exercise as it helps give you a 30,000 foot view on the direction of your life.

Understanding these big overarching life goals will help you shape your daily and weekly Happiness Habits.

Doing these two simple exercises regularly will help you to redefine success for yourself.

The Define your Happiness Habits exercise is a great one to do on a weekly basis, perhaps on a Sunday morning over a cup of tea.

The Write your own Happy Ending can be done more infrequently - perhaps monthly or quarterly.

These exercises are about bringing a heightened awareness to your life and the hours you're living it. It's only through this awareness that you bring about the possibility of change.

Once you define what success looks like for you, you will find that you start to move your focus to the right things, turning down the noise from your ( consumption) brain and increasing the volume of happiness.

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Book: Level Up by Rod Dial 2023

Visualization: The bridge to action.

No matter what the goal, it’s important to incorporate all five senses into the visualization process to make it a richer experience.

Learn to train yourself to feel gratitude for a future that hasn’t happened yet.

Picture how proud you will be when you accomplish your goals.

Goals: Journal prompts

What does your ideal future look like? What would you do? When would you do it, and with whom?

What will focus on … to make sure you find what you are searching for?

What fruit will your future goals bear?

How can you incorporate all five senses into your visualization process?

Reward: Journal prompts

How can you celebrate yourself just for showing up and taking the right action?

Write down a list of action based goals.

What will the reward be for every action or process completed?

List some of the ways you can naturally increase your dopamine levels throughout the day.

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Updated: November 2023

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