Increase Your Uplifts

How do you increase your uplift?  Simple: You do little things that bring you pleasure.  You don't just wait passively to be uplifted-you make it happen! For example, you can lift your spirits by:

• Treating yourself to a delicious dessert in the middle of the afternoon.

• Join a dance class like Zumba and go every week.

• Spending lunch hour sunning yourself on a park bench.

• Taking 20 minutes to meditate.

• Taking time to feed the birds who visit your yard before going off to work.

• Watching children play.

• Daydreaming about positive experiences you've ha in the past.

• Giving yourself permission to have that extra cup of coffee before you join in the "rat race."

• Enjoying a glass of wine at an outdoor cafe.

• Listening to some of your favorite songs while driving from point A to point B.

• Reading a magazine article about something that interests you. 

 

These are the things that you can initiate.  They don't depend on what other people are willing or able to do that might please you.  They are things that you have control over.  Enjoy life, make the best out of each moment, it is the only one we have.