As a life coach, I often have women coming for coaching sessions to feel happier or improve their lives in ways that will make them happy. In essence, looking for the rules to be happy in life.

The rules of a happy life often centre around a few key principles: practising gratitude, nurturing relationships, and setting realistic goals.

Embracing gratitude encourages a positive mindset, allowing individuals to focus on the good in their lives, even amid challenges.

Building and maintaining meaningful connections fosters a sense of belonging and support, vital for overall well-being.

Additionally, setting achievable goals provides direction and a sense of accomplishment, helping to cultivate motivation and purpose.

Finally, prioritizing self-care and balance in various aspects of life contributes to sustained happiness and fulfilment.

Living your best life will mean something different to everyone but there are some common traits we can all adopt to make sure we are living our best lives. Setting and pursuing your goals and dreams is one of the simplest and easiest ways to begin. Doing what you love will mean living a life you love that motivates and excites you. Be true to your values and embrace opportunities to help you grow. Prioritizing your well-being and happiness, and cultivating positive relationships with yourself and others.

True happiness comes from within and is not reliant on external factors such as material possessions or other people.

To be truly happy, it is important to cultivate self-love, practice gratitude, live in the present moment, and pursue activities and relationships that bring you joy and fulfilment.

Additionally, setting and achieving meaningful goals, taking care of your physical and mental well-being, and maintaining positive relationships are key components of experiencing lasting happiness in life.

Everyone can suffer from negative thinking from time to time. Life is always going to throw up circumstances that can make you think in a negative and unhelpful way. These times hopefully are fleeting.

What though if you are someone who constantly suffers from negative thinking? If you are stuck in a cycle of one negative thought after another? How can you turn off the negative chatter in your head and replace it with more positive proactive thoughts? How can you think happy positive thoughts……today?