Do you do things to make yourself happy? When I looked at my life, I realized that I wasn’t really doing things to make myself happy. It would be little things like saying “yes” when I really meant “no”. Putting everyone and their agendas above mine, dropping everything I’m doing for someone else, and always putting myself last.
At the end of all that, it always left me drained, tired, and annoyed tbh. Especially when I saw everyone else living their best life and I was always there left behind, just feeling “stuck” because I wasn’t giving myself a fair chance. I wasn’t happy and it really started affecting my mental health.
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Over time, I started reading more self-help books and doing a lot more self-reflection. I learnt that there was a feeling of guilt attached to putting myself first. Maybe it stemmed from a learned behaviour while I was growing up- but whatever it was, it really affected my mental health and eventually my life.
I needed to break this toxic habit ASAP, before it affected the quality of my life- for the rest of my life.
Here are 5 things/new habits that I started implementing into my life to make me feel happy.
