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Daydreaming: A Pleasant Distraction
Daydreaming about potentially bright and happy future experiences can fill you up with positive emotions. Fantasizing about the positive experiences that await you fill you up with energy, and that motivates you to keep going.
Imagining a great future creates discipline, as our dreams are real for us, and we want to achieve them by toiling and struggling in the present. If we do not dream or are not able to visualize our dream, we may not get motivated to push ourselves harder.
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Benefits of Looking Forward To Something
Just like anticipating bad things which can happen in the future tends to cause a feeling of anxiety, making our bodies respond negatively, thinking about the good things happening in the future creates positive emotions and reactions in the body.
If we have something fun ...
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The Blues Of Being Mentally In The Future
A lot of anticipatory happiness and the resulting grief if the plans do not materialize is due to the fact that most of us are not in the present moment, but are mentally somewhere in the future, where we think we would be really happy.
Staying in the present moment, then...
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Appreciation For The Present Moment
Future anxiety can also be countered by practicing gratitude, shifting your focus from what you cannot have in the future, to what you already have in the present moment.
Even small things, like the fact that you are healthy, energetic and have a loving family is enough to get a subst...
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Looking Forward To Something
Having something to look forward to (plans for vacations, weddings, concerts, family visits, and various celebrations) is a source of anticipatory happiness.
On the contrary, having those plans indefinitely cancelled (due to the pandemic for example and the resulting curbs) invok...
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Positively Using Mind-Wandering And Boredom
- Instead of dwelling on negative events and thoughts and imagining how things could be different, use positive-constructive mind-wandering, to come up with a way of fixing issues or preventing them from happening again. What you daydream about is also a tool for self-diagnosi...
On The Obsession Of Happiness
Can you admit to yourself that you're happy all of the time? I can't. I'm not happy with myself everyday and it's scary to think that I may be conditioned to feel like I can do better and be more positive and be more productive.
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Improving your life with motivation
While motivation is a huge topic, and the science on it is not in agreement, there are many takeaways we can use to understand how motivation operates and use it to improve our lives.
- Rewards and punishments are at the centre of motivation. For example, we may not b...
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