How to Chill Out and Live a Happier Life

         To be calm in negative situations and not overreact or worry about all kinds of things. 

         Or to not invent big, big problems in your mind - or create them in your world as you drag other people in through arguments - by making mountains out of molehills.

         But how do you do it?

         Let me share two things that work really well.

1. What would someone else do?

         This is a good way to find a new, more useful and sometimes more playful perspective.

         You simply ask yourself what someone else would do in your situation.

         Maybe you ask yourself:

• What would mom or dad do?
• What would [insert name of your calm and wise friend] do?

         The point is to play around and find a new perspective and drag yourself out of your current negative, stressed and confused headspace and see things in another light.

         Just doing that can help you to calm down, realize that this isn't a huge deal and help you to think a bit outside of your own box and find a solution that you can apply.

2. Get a life.

         If you find yourself sitting around too much and not having enough to do then it's very easy to get stuck in negative thought loops and go into a downward spiral. Simply by filling life with more fun activities and people I have found that I have become a lot more relaxed and less prone to overreacting about the little things.

         I have found that when you have good and exciting things going on then you don't magnify small things to create drama in your life.

         Because you have very little time to do so and you have more important and fun things to do so issues tend to retain their correct size rather than growing into mountains.

         When fill your life you're also often confronted with having to expand your comfort zone and perhaps face a fear. This leads to better self-confidence and less fretting about if you can handle things that may come up.

Have a relaxed days ahead!