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Do These 3 Things Before You Get Out of Bed Every Morning
These simple little exercises can change the way you think, feel, and make you a happier person
Me? I wasn’t a morning person. I was so the don’t-poke-the-bear type before my first cup of coffee. Everyone in my family knew this. They would speak in hushed voices and not say a word to me until I gave them the go-ahead. Oscar the Grouch had nothing on me! But, that also meant my days were pretty crappy. I constantly had negative thoughts and emotions about anything and everything. My life was a amalgam of hurt, regret, guilt, shame, worry, fear, and disappointment.
The problem was: I was completely unconscious of it. “This is just the way I am” was my personal mantra and belief. I thought “I’m just an angry person. What of it?” Well, ‘what of it’ was: It’s not good to go through life as an angry, unhappy person. You tend to piss a lot of people off, or they just don’t want to be around you.
Humans have the tendency to focus more on the negative than the positive. The positive is fine. It ain’t broke. We believe we need to focus more on the negative so we can find the solution and fix it. Noticing threats is ingrained in our biological make-up. Our brains are literally wired to pay more attention to the bad than the good. It doesn’t…
