10 Daily Habits to Boost Your Mood and Productivity

The winter season can be brutal on your happiness; here is how I fight back.

Delaney Jaye
Mind Cafe

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My meditation this morning focused on happiness — cultivating a sense of peace and contentment in everyday life.

There are a lot of factors that play into the feeling of happiness, but I am a firm believer that ultimately, it is a choice.

I recently spent about a month or two in a serious funk. It happened slowly and took me a while to realize it, but I had completely lost and isolated myself.

It wasn’t an active choice — it was a combination of small daily decisions that turned into a pattern over time as the winter days got shorter and colder.

I finally decided that enough was enough.

I wrote out a morning routine and decided my mantra is, “I am actively choosing my life every single day.”

I learned a lot through this experience. One of the most important lessons was that we choose our lives every day. It can be a passive or an active choice, but it’s still a choice.

A good mood is something you choose to put on each morning like you would choose an outfit. Actively choosing the pieces you’ll carry with you throughout your day and deciding to leave the…

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