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This is Optimal Living Daily, how simple, little, happy habits can make a huge difference

by Midge Green Tree with TinyBuda.com.

And I'm Justin Mollick. We're going to jump right into today's post as we optimize your life.

How simple, little happy habits can make a huge difference by Midge Green Tree with tiny buddha.com.

Habits are a double-edged human habitual practice that can be healthy and unhealthy

and can bring us happiness and unhappiness. We've all read about the importance of healthy

and successful habits and how to choose and practice them, but I've also recently

read about how healthy and successful habits alone don't necessarily lead to good health or real

success. There's more to it. What I'm reading now shows that happiness appears to be just as

important to well-being and success as lifestyle choices, that happiness alone may actually lead to the good life

in body, mind, and spirit. Sometimes there are things in life we just have to do. They're neither

painful nor pleasurable, just necessary chores. Why not letting the load with a few little

happy habits? In my early 20s, I remember for years not being happy while shopping at the grocery

market. To me, it was a dreaded chore. I felt a certain sense of overwhelmed just stepping

into the market. The overly bright lights, the barrage of bad music interrupted only by the

even more annoying announcements, the myriad choices, just shopped the perimeter, deciphering the ingredients and nutrition facts

labels, would the real food please stand out? The comparison shopping tasks, the mental math matters,

the crowds in their carts to maneuver around, having to remind the cleric time and again that

I didn't want paper or plastic, I brought them and I'll bag them, and the expensive

kaching, silent swipe, actually, at the checkout. And I also recall feeling guilty,

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