This is Optimal Living Daily. Be Happier. Ten Things to Start Doing right now by Mark Shernoff of

Mark and Angel.com. And I'm Justin Mollick. I'm jump right into today's post as we optimize your life.

Be happier. Ten things to start doing right now by Mark Shernoff of Mark and Angel.com

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Today's a blank canvas upon which you have the

delightful opportunity to create. At this moment you're standing at the beginning of an impressive adventure with the very real and present opportunity to create. At this moment, you're standing at the beginning of an impressive adventure

with a very real and present opportunity to shape the upcoming years into the happiest ones ever.

Start now, take the initiative, and, number one, foster your own personal growth.

If you want to awaken happiness in the world around you,

start by living a life that makes you happy and then radiate your happiness outward. If you want

to eliminate suffering in the world, start by eliminating the dark and negative parts of yourself

and then radiate your positivity outward. Truly, the greatest power you have in this world

is the power of your own self-transformation. It starts with the one in the mirror. Number two,

be present in this moment. Too often we run ourselves into the ground and sacrifice our happiness

and health to make a little

money. Then we sacrifice the money we made to recuperate some of our happiness and health. And as we're

stuck in this damaging cycle, we're so anxious about the past and future that we forget to enjoy life

as we're living it. The end result being that we don't ever truly experience

being alive. We subconsciously act as if time isn't passing us by every second of every day,

like it isn't important and we're never going to die. And thus we end up dying someday without ever

having truly lived.

Number three, focus on your authenticity and integrity.

Start living life according to who you know you are and what you know is right.

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