51 Ways to Pursue Happiness

1. Smile randomly at people
2. Turn your face to the morning sun
3. Listen to your Mom’s voice
4. Talk to your sister or a best friend who is like a sister
5. Take a dip in the ocean
6. Walk barefoot on the grass
7. Lie on the sand and watch the sunset
8. Give your favorite toy to a kid and then pull their little cheeks
9. Take a whiff of your partner’s neck when they are asleep
10. Tune into Mumford and sons
11. Listen to ‘Wear Sunscreen’
12. Help that old lady cross the road already
13. Smell a book
14. Get right in the middle of a group hug
15. Call your 3rd-grade teacher
16. Watch a Tarot card reading, while sipping on ginger lemon tea
17. Let the wave rush over your feet
18. Look at your childhood pictures
19. Kiss your love ALL THE TIME..!!
20. Read a page from the ‘Icarus Deception
21. Hold a newborn baby
22. Do a cartwheel, hula-hoop, or hop on a trampoline
23. Smoke a joint and take a walk on the beach, let the sand stick to your feet
24. Click a picture of your pet
25. Cuddle with your cat
26. Don’t read beauty magazines
27. Give up your phone for an hour, a day, a week, till you can hear your thoughts again
28. Don’t let anyone step into your mind with their dirty feet
29. Be a bigger person
30. Forgive your archnemesis
31. Forgive your parents, they did everything they could
32. Fail, Cry, Get up, fail a couple of more times, and then become okay with failing
33. Try to consciously stop judging someone who hurt you (especially in your head)
34. Meditate
35. Watch Charlie Chaplin
36. Subscribe to the Meditative Mind
37. Quit social media
38. Cook
39. Get a pedicure with a hot towel massage at the end
40. Spoon Your Love
41. Tickle your olfactory senses with lemongrass
42. Read at least one ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul’
43. Try not to say anything mean for a whole day
44. Tell a stranger they look beautiful
45. Ask a new person what pronoun they would like you to use
46. Watch the Video of Israel IZ singing Somewhere over the Rainbow
47. Read Rumi’s poems
48. Smell some fresh laundry
49. Tell your colleague how proud you are of them
50. Feed some birds
51. Breathe…