This is a continued post of Who is regulating your life?

Quickly pen down 5 things you are grateful for, in a notepad. Do this for a few minutes whenever you feel like losing the control. Review this list whenever you feel the need.

By setting goals, writing them down and posting them on a wall where you can see them every day you can keep your focus steadily on what you want instead of what you don’t want out of life. I use an online tool TeuxDeux for this.

Most Important is to choose an environment of happiness for you. For this reason most of the times I stay without any company. Your environment has a big influence over you. You are in it every waking hour so you need to be proactive and create an environment that supports your happiness and habits. Being a bit ruthless and cutting out as much of the negative influences and busywork makes your mind clear, uncluttered and focused.

Two tested tips for shaping your environment to support a happier life are:

Socialize with people that lift you up some people tend to drag you down. Some people may be indifferent. Some people tend to lift up you up and support and motivate you.

Focus on spending as much of your time as you can with the third group of people. It will be very hard to live a happier life if the people you hang out with the most always are negative and complain about everything. Choose positive information If you are always watching the news and are getting fed fear scenarios and a lot of negative information then this will colour your perspective of the world and yourself.

Noteworthy point is that people around you create the information you let into your mind each day and it has a huge effect on your happiness levels. By not doing all this we have left the control to autopilot mode who is not able to see the disasters.