Happiness Improvement Plan :) · STACK & Become Unequal

Happiness Improvement Plan :)

2021brought forth the hardest challenges I had to face in my life to that point. And that is saying a lot. 😣

My entire life as I knew it, including my identity was about to change and I wasn’t prepared for the resistance and the calculated torment that was coming.

This would begin the most grueling 36 months of my life. It was also an opportunity to make a decision to decide who I was, who I was going to be and decide amidst pure and udder chaos how I was going to respond to all this.

Would I become angry, retaliatory or hostile? Would I focus at everything I was “losing” and walking away from. Focus on what was being said about me? Become a victim? Give up? Turn to alcohol, meds, or even food to numb and sedate myself from the torment? Only to have to undo all reverse progress I gave up by being weak during the trial period I had entered? Orrrrr could I actually come out of this smarter, stronger, and a better version of myself? I believed I could use the anxiety, stress, fear, and pain as effing JETFUEL to launch myself into an insanely, unrecognizably BETTER version of myself.

It’s an option we all have.

There are 5 littles counting on me. + 3 younger siblings that I know I need to remain an example for. And, to be honest, I also want my life to matter. I refused to allow this insanity to change me from a happy person to a sad, asshole :) I knew I couldn’t just leave it to chance. So I did this. 👇🏽

I implemented a Happiness Improvement Plan

It’s heavily anchored in gratitude.

1-Write down daily gratitude - must be physically written or typed

2-Meditate daily - even just 5 minutes

3-Exercise Daily

4-Serve someone daily - hold the door and smile at someone, even a kind comment counts

5-Write down one thing great about your day

It may not revolutionary, and yes IT TAKES EFFORT and falling apart requires almost NO EFFORT, but I promise its nearly impossible to remain sad or depressed if you use this.

*As of this writing the madness is still ongoing. My divorce still isn’t final. 3 years later… And it’s almost getting worse :) But everyday I choose happiness and gratitude. And by choosing to use all this bullsh*t as jet fuel, now 36 months later… I am not the failure people though I may become ;) I am jacked, more skilled, and 1000% more resilient, grateful, and calm during the storms. I remain grateful by looking the opportunity in destruction. Failure as one step closer to figuring it out and rejection as redirection. Im certainly not perfect but I'm at least not regretting who I allowed myself to become during the hardest 3 years of my life. Im truly the most happy I have ever been. And I have a completely different and more healthy perspective on life than ever before. I enjoy every damn moment.

So I invite you to consider implementing this if think it may be helpful to you.

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Additional Quotes I like.

When I'm prepared to see abundance I will constantly see that there is more than enough.

Gratitude is synonymous with abundance.

“The greatest discovery of our generation is that humans can alter their life by altering the attitude of their mind.” - William James

See my why below.

Keep stackin’ - we don't have any other choice :)

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