14 tips

  1. smile when you first wake up

  2. smile at yourself in the mirror

  3. remind yourself that you are going to smile more

  4. set reminders to smile

  5. have things around you that make you smile

  6. have people around you that make you smile

  7. smile at everyone you meet

  8. perform random acts of kindness

  9. think happy thoughts

  10. reflect on happy memories

  11. work out what makes you happy and do more of it

  12. stop worrying

    focus on what you can change not what you can’t

  13. holding a pencil in you teeth can ‘trick’ your brain into thinking you are smiling

  14. reverse the route to happiness

happiness shouldn’t be the goal, it should be the starting point

so instead of thinking

when good things happen, I’ll be happy

be happy now and good things will happen