22 Ways To Continue To A More Happy Living

1. Don't take life too seriously.
2. Make laughter central to your daily life and give no damn about what everybody thinks.
3. What you love makes you happy. There’s a connection between what you love and your destiny. Don’t ignore your emotions. They’re there for a reason.
4. What you feel should never control your happiness. Happiness should control what you feel and how you feel it.
5. Read joke books or watch comedy movies and TV programs. Read story books, especially novels. They make you forget your miseries—for a while.
6. The most sure way to kill your happiness is to watch horror movies. Avoid them at any cost. They’re no good for your soul.
7. Happiness is highly contagious. Find happy friends and inflict them with laughter—and get stuck with them.
8. Find a good reason to be happy, and hang onto it like your life depended on it.
9. Move to a place where people are happy, or move to a place where people want to be happy.
10. Eat chocolate. Scientists tell us that eating dark chocolate actually works chemically to improve our moods. Dark chocolate contains compounds that stimulate endorphins, the same compounds that are released after you exercise or laugh. Now you know.
11. Avoid arguments, quarrels and bitterness. They only poison your mood.
12. Team up with a bunch of happy people, or form a ‘happy club’—you’ll never be sad.
13. Do you love listening to music? You should. It soothes your nerves. If you don’t, I pity you.
14. Fend off negative thoughts, and negative feelings. They only add to your misery. Cultivate positive vibes.
15. Most of you will not like this—stop watching porn. Doesn’t make you happy. You end up masturbating—which drains you from the inside-out.
16. Meditate and listen to soothing, calming, relaxing, and spiritual music. Many people will not agree with me, but hard rock or heavy metal music kills your peace.
17. Just decide to be happy. You don’t need a formula or the psychology of happiness to be happy. There’s no formula for happiness.
18. Whenever you feel sad, just take a deep breath 3 times and breathe out slowly. Release your sadness and anger as you breathe out. This works more than a thousand other formulas.
19. Take a jog or walk your dog. If you don’t have a dog, jog anyway. Fresh air is rich in oxygen—which injects new life into your system.
20. Forgive everyone who has ever offended you, but more importantly forgive yourself.
21. Don’t take your sweet sleep for granted. Doctors recommend 6 - 8 hours of sleep per day. Biologically, there are nutrients which can only be manufactured when you’re asleep. The longer the sleep the more the nutrients produced.
22. If you have a flower garden, tend it regularly. Flowers emit a healing scent. Greet people as they pass, including your neighbors. Find an excuse to laugh by cracking a joke.

10 Facts Most People Ignore Until Later In Life

 

1. Health: I see it with my nephews. Most people eat what they want very early in life. The #1 cause of death still holds, Heart Disease. You can use food as medicine early on, or medicine as food as you age. Your choice.
2. Relationship: Most practically chase and hunt for a partner early in life. They desperately seek someone to “complete” them. Thriving to have the house, marriage 2–3 kids and live this fairy tale life that is portrayed through social media. Relationships are work. Go into a relationship with something to offer, not looking for a savior. Add to what someone already has, no need to “complete” someone.
3. Career: Many chase a particular career looking for happiness. Only to find out years down the road, you were chasing the wrong thing.
4. Happiness: It doesn’t come from money. While money can make things easier, money alone won’t bring happiness.
5. Who thinks what: Exactly. I spent years worrying what others thought about me. I would make so many choices in my life due to my own insecurities and not by my character. I was like a chameleon adapting to each environment differently. Most are too consumed with their own life to worry about yours. And those that judge you, says more about them than you.
6. Friends/Family: I have a very small friend group. While families can be toxic, when you are down and out, family will always have your back for the most part. As will a few good friends. It’s quality over quantity.
7. Toxic people: I spent years trying to conform, or hell, even change toxic people. You will learn it’s impossible to change others. It’s hard enough changing ourselves let alone trying to control others. Take care of you, and most things will fall into place.
8. Media: They arent here for our greater good. They preach hate and division. America is being raised on drama and most are falling for the bait.
9. Self care: Mentally, physically and spiritually. Take care of yourself and your body will thank you as you age.
10. Choice: Life is full of them, good and bad. Choose wisely, because the bad ones can have lasting consequences.

Some Signs Of High Intelligence

Please note: This brief was taken out of  many answers on the quora website. Thanks.

To edit my answer better, and elaborate on the points I made, these are very basic compared the pure nature of high IQ which is typically more dynamic and strange than just these points.

To once again edit and avoid some confusion, I know and see some people read my answer as entirely ADHD, I do have it; yes. Quite ironic how I mentioned it first. But to clear up confusion, high IQ from my perspective does have some aspect of thought rumination that is not ADHD.

So to continue, I'll example better points such as what other people have mentioned as well.

• Being a lone person, someone who thinks on their own away from the crowd
• Collected, well thought out intuition
• Visualization skills such as spatial memory which can be applied to artwork or other creative forms
• Hyperthymesia (unnormal and oddly large memory of childhood)
• Strange different interests such as specific and/or advanced subjects that others are not aware of at their level standard

And the ADHD points as an interaction between high IQ and ADHD:

• Inability to prevent certain ruminative thoughts [ADHD related so that certain ideas or concepts in tunnel vision seem important and to be focused on actively]
• reading several books at once (different pages from each book alternatively and taking away a lot of information from a small passage)
• writing with full-heart intent on numerous topics
• feeling concealed and thinking inside your head
• having many like-minded people that may be above your age or the same age and older
• having social misunderstandings that make it complicated to think in a well-thought-out fashion
• having an addictive personality, or some type of schedule that makes sense to you because of time management [chewing gum, exercising in different ways, listening to music on repeat]

But there's more to this, these points are only so common and since this is picking up more traction. I'll make some more points.

• Extreme interest and care to explain to other people
• The extreme want to teach others, or share the facts or opinions with someone else
• Making strong connections to only certain people that agree with very specific aspects
• Making connections to fields of knowledge which generally wouldn't normally be put together.
• Umbrella ways of branching thought patterns (umbral studies)
• Knowing many things at once, and only practicing a group of them at a time before getting burn out and moving onto another set

Now I've come to a strange predicament. I was sitting at my desk and my mom comes in and says “River I need to talk to you" going on to rant about school work, she pointed to my desk with her eyes, and said, “I don't like how you are so careless with your space, you have so many books all over the floor and desk, your surrounded by books”

And I said: “yeah, and?”

She says: “yeah, that's not normal", that's when I realized I think at my desk, my life is at my desk, I work for life at my desk and have since I moved In, I'm genius, I'm not normal, I have physics notes and everything all over the place.

So, adding to the list:

• Seclusion, hoarding, surrounding yourself with like items, and tunnel vision all together

Getting some comments asking whether it's anecdotal or not, I'd say partially. 

I took a lot from online stories, myself, education videos, and friends as my sources. Have a nice day.

20 Ways To Make Life Easier

1. Be driven by ambition, not by greed. Ambition seeks to make you the best that you can be. Greed seeks to destroy you.
2. Do not seek to become rich. Getting rich comes at a heavy price. You will encounter many challenges and sorrows. Seek to lead a fulfilling life that is financially comfortable.
3. Throw away junk. Give it away to charity. Only keep what you need.
4. Always keep a packed travel bag ready with a few essential belongings such as clothes, a towel, a toothbrush and toothpaste, bathing soap, a comb, and some cash. This comes in handy for an emergency when you have no time to pack.
5. Don’t make a habit of walking with a lot of cash in your wallet.
6. Never flash your wallet in a crowded place such a bus station, a cafeteria, bar or restaurant.
7. Never brag about how much money you have or the kind of job you have. You may attract unnecessary enemies.
8. Use public transport or a bicycle as much as possible.
9. Avoid unnecessary time-wastage and gossip. They only make you poorer.
10. Create extra time for yourself by waking up earlier and completing some of your daily chores early. You will create more time for yourself for your daily activities.
11. Avoid sadness by meditating or praying when you wake up. This sets the tone for your day and prepares you spiritually and psychologically to face the challenges of the day.
12. Connect with people and genuinely help people. They are your source of inspiration. Besides, you can’t do without them.
13. Strive to become a happy person — not necessarily a successful person. Happiness can be extended to other people through laughter. The effect of this could cut your medical bill by half.
14. Avoid unnecessary spending and instead, save or invest your money for your future or the future of your children.
15. Avoid borrowing at any cost. Borrowing only makes you a slave to the lender. Besides, the debt may overflow and become a burden to your children.
16. Only eat what your body needs. Eat quality — not quantity. Quantity only makes your body obese while increasing your medical bill. Besides, this can significantly reduce your monthly expenses.
17. Strive to have quality education — not quality entertainment. This is how to get richer.
18. Encourage your children to become financially literate by denying them money. Let them work for the money and when they grow they will know how to take care of money.
19. Spend the most time with your family and loved ones, for these are the only people you can fall back to.
20. Learn to be satisfied with the little you have and be grateful for it. For there is someone out there who is praying to get even that little you have.

14 Uncommon Habits That Contribute To Success

 1. Sacrificing important things. In the end, we all only have 24 hours in a day. To reach success you have to sacrifice spending time on important things to be able to have more time to spend on the things that really matter. Check every week what you can give up to gain something better.

2. Believing what you want instead of what others tell you. Most beliefs people hold are not based on fact and are not true whatsoever. Get into the habit of believing that which empowers you and makes you feel amazing instead of the things that others tell you to believe. If it is not certain what is real, believe the thing that makes you feel better.

3. Getting motivated. Motivation is an emotion that doesn’t last, but that is of enormous help. Find things that motivate you every day.

4. Thinking less. Thought usually hinders us in our actions. When we think about things to do we tend to think about ways it can go wrong or reasons why we shouldn’t do something. Stop thinking and start doing.

5. Going to bed early. To be at the top of your game you need enough sleep. Yes, successful people get up somewhere between 4 and 6 in the morning, but they can only do that because they go to bed between 9 and 11 in the evening.

6. Keeping track of your progress. Even though you may believe that you know, unless you can actually see the evidence in front of you, you will never know for sure. Know exactly how you spend your time and how you are doing in your habits. If you are really motivated: Graph it!

7. Having a clean space. Keep your apartment, room, and/or house clean. Leave as little clutter as you can, and always take care of the mess right away. Anything that aids your motivation and makes you feel great is worth doing.

8. Speaking only positively about your future. Say things as if they already happened, or as if there is no way they will not happen. If you believe it is a fact that you will get an amazing life, you will act accordingly and receive it.

9. Gratitude. Thank as many things and people as you can. Most successful people come from a place where they had absolutely nothing, which is why they are grateful about every little thing that they have. This makes even the most simple things special and amazing.

10. Doing it all. Whenever you see tips online, or hear about some great strategies, do them all. You can never have enough of a good thing when it comes to reaching success.

11. Never giving up on what matters. If you want something, find a way to get it. Not because you necessarily want that thing that bad, but instead because you absolutely have to prove to yourself that you can get whatever you set your mind to.

12. Doing what you said you would no matter what. Success comes from not giving up halfway through. Everyone is on the way to be successful in what they do, but only 1% of all people actually see it through. Do what you said you would. No matter what!

13. Spending more money on yourself. Not on beauty products, clothes or video games, but instead on gathering information, finding connections and learning more through books. Spend money on the only thing that lasts: Yourself.

14. Stop caring. Not only about the people around you, but also about whether or not you will accomplish your goal. The less you care about it, the less stress you will experience when you work, which will make your work more fun and you will get to success much faster than you thought you could. Stop chasing it and you will get it.

10 Best Ways To Improve Life

 

1. Laughing More - The world has way too little laughter. Make it a daily habit to laugh out loud, to truly lol, once at least.
2. Reading Books - 1 Book a Month at minimum, 4 if you want to quickly live a better life. Self-Improvement Books about specific things you want to add to your life are a great start.
3. Reaching Out First - If you want to have more fun with friends then you plan the events. Don’t wait for others to get you to the life you want and take the first step yourself as often as you want to.
4. Exercising Regularly - 4–6 days a week with at least 1–2 days of cardio.
5. Going Outside - Nature, Fresh Air, and calm, relaxing breezes are sometimes all you need to take the edge of a stressful day.
6. Scheduling your Day - Unconscious Time is Waste Time. Conscious Time is Not. Regret only comes from the empty spaces in your calendar.
7. Meditating - Too few people nowadays look inward for fulfillment and try to fill their day with distractions. Learn who you are. Take 10 Minutes every day to be with yourself.
8. Being Charitable - Give what you can. Ideally so much that you are just very slightly uncomfortable doing it, for that is where you find the most growth & reward.
9. Showing Courage - It is often said that you regret more of what you didn’t do than what you did do. Show enough Courage in your Life to let these moments be as few as possible.
10. Consciously Training Your Mind - How you talk about yourself and what you think each day are a large part of what makes up your world. Train this to be positive, supportive and empowering. Write down empowering thoughts and repeat them twice a day. Find proof of these thoughts in your memories and you will strengthen yourself even more.
11. Being More Active - In both life and relationships, try to take the active role. Fill your days with more events and places-to-be, and add activities to all your relationships. The more you do the more you gain from life. Limit your time sitting alone at home.
12. Saying ‘No’ - If it is not a clear, unequivocal ‘Yes’ it defaults to a ‘No’. Say this word more often and make your own plans.
13. Saying ‘Yes’ - Try yourself at more things that scare you, that make you uncomfortable or that you know are good for you. Give yourself the courage to exit your comfort zone; it is where most of the magic happens.
14. Being Vulnerable with Others - Yes, this can bite you in the butt, but most of the time it will be the gateway to a much deeper relationship or friendship. Be brave; you’ll be rewarded with more than you will loose.
15. Experience More - Spend your Money on things that give you experiences rather than the newest, hottest product that will be outdated again in a months time. For memories, unlike things, last a lifetime.

8 Small Things That Tell A Lot About A Person

 

1. Speech. The way, a person speaks tell us a lot about their attitude and personality. The more educated a person is, the more polite he tends to become.
2. Fashion sense. You should never believe a person who tries too hard to appear cool wearing trendy clothes and costly shoes. He/she is a manipulator and obviously big imposter.
3. Handwriting. It may be little debatable but the more creative and lazy a person is, the roughest his handwriting gets. On the other hand, organized and disciplined people have good handwriting.
4. Hygiene. You can easily figure out if a person is disciplined or not by noticing their hygiene. Those who maintain hygiene have high self esteem and they tend to love themselves.
5. Smile. Smile can be deceiving most of the times but it shows the person is strong and he is trying to live a normal happy life.
6. How a person treats animals. Those who loves animals are often the most joyful and full of life.
7. If a person admits his mistakes immediately and asks for forgiveness without letting his ego come in between, it tells a lot about his upbringing and personality.
8. How a person treats his lover and the most importantly how he treats his competitors.

How To Make The Brain Sharper, Smarter, And Lightning Fast In Thoughts

 

1. Learn to see everything in terms of opinions and facts. You don’t need to spend hours reading if you understand what the author is trying to get across. Once you have the essence of the idea you’re good to go. This also proves well when learning. It’s always about the idea, never the way that is used to describe or to explain the idea.
2. Learn to condense information into a few words. Everything that can be said, can be said simply (Ludwig Wittgenstein). Meaning you take complex information and put it into key terms. Complex into simple. This way you learn to understand and understand well.
3. Whilst you learn, also train your language. Try to write out your thoughts every day. Get better at it, get quicker at it, get a new life skill.
4. Learn every day, whether that translates into life lessons or specific subject matter.
5. Try reading something you’re not versed in. Difficult. Do that more often.
6. Stay open to new ideas, places and people. Learn from them. Have your brain re-wire around these ideas, places and people.
7. Never ever shut down. There is no point in becoming complacent or adhering to a very closed-off belief system. Make sure you’re always learning or else you will come to regret it at some point or another.
8. Be on the way to find and act in accordance to truth. You can’t go wrong being truthful, you can only learn, get smarter and quicker.