Eight steps towards a more satisfying life
Try these practical suggestions to raise your happiness and satisfaction levels:
Reclaim your weekends
Remember what life was like when all the shops shut on a Sunday? The streets were quiet, especially on Sunday afternoon, when most people settled down for a snooze, or an idle browse through the newspapers.
Just because everything's open for business, however, doesn't mean you have to be out and about. Taking one day off a week to relax and restore your mind and soul is a really good idea, but you have to be committed to it. It's a realisation I came to recently – that if I took a day off on the weekend, not only would I be more productive and efficient in the week ahead, but the world continued turning!
Our society demands that we push ourselves all the time; sometimes it feels as though there's a competition on to see who can be busiest. But we all need some down-time some guilt-free lounging around to reconnect with ourselves.
Perhaps a Saturday's best for you, or perhaps you work all weekend and get Mondays off. Either way, try to build all your chores into the other six days of the week, and set aside one day for relaxing at home or spending quality time with family and close friends. You'll be amazed how much better you feel mentally.
