How to cheer yourself up! Entrepreneurs shared their tips and strategies for boosting a bad mood, changing their outlook, and regaining their smile. Here are 75 simple ideas that work quickly and effectively. Give yourself a boost today.
Entrepreneurs often have to come to their own rescue and brighten their own day. It may be big. It may be trivial, but it adds up. When nothing seems to go right or you just cannot shake the negativity or feeling of overwhelm, take charge of you and your attitude, and cheer yourself up.
Your happiness and your productivity depend upon it! You work hard, so maintain your momentum, but also maintain your positivity. Always remember you are working to live not living to work. Celebrate yourself, your efforts, your business – and celebrate this day and every day.
These ideas came from your fellow entrepreneurs. These are the results of our poll asking for quick tips on how entrepreneurs brighten their own day.
Nothing here is magic but implementing these ideas should feel magical.
Nothing is more than easy and common sense, so use the ideas that work for you and use others to spur creative thinking – and create that moment.
What’s outside your window right now? When’s the last time you did a neck roll? Anything is better than nothing and creates a moment.
A moment. That’s all we’re going for here. That’s all you need to get started.
Entrepreneurs! Cheer up!
Take a MENTAL moment and boost your mood!
Appreciate what is around you. Let your head clear and let your body relax.
1.) Click on the Calm app.
2.) Breathe deeply, hold and exhale. Commit to doing this again in an hour or two.
3.) Take a mindful moment. Ask yourself just one mindful question and reflect as if you were your own best friend. (cause you are!)
What are you most grateful for? What’s going well?
4.) Say a morning mantra!
5.) Read. Not the news. No news unless it’s good news. Pick up a good book. A magazine.
6.) Create a new cheerful, seasonal lock screen.
7.) Before or after work, send your social love as you enjoy coffee on a step, stoop, or bench outside.
8.) Listen to music. Play music while you cook. Play it low & let others sleep. Play it louder and dance your way to the sink and sponge.
9.) Listen to funny videos as you walk. Keep your head up, but listen and laugh.
10.) Prioritize. Limit screen time & daytime distractions at work.
You’re creating a future here. Social media can wait. Everyone arguing about politics and religion can wait. They’ll still be arguing later.
11.) Look at your results. What am I most proud of? Realize how far you’ve come!
12.) Update your vision board.
Don’t have one? Create one. (we have several articles with great examples!)
Look at it today. Look at it tomorrow.
13.) Adjust your daily plan.
What have you accomplished? (probably a lot!) What have you checked off the list? What needs to get done?
14.) Stay on task! Set reminders, alarms. Use a to-do list and cross each item off.
15.) Find being productive uplifting! Put your phone away & silence the sound.
16.) End your 24/7 access. Set boundaries. When you are working, you’re working. You have a break at 10:30 and 3. You can text back then. Period.
17.) Clean something. Take 15 minutes, a cleanser, and a cloth.
18.) Take a bubble bath or one scented with essential oils.
19.) Massage your own feet!
20.) Pull out your old photos of family, friends, your local area….. or a place you want to go that looks entirely different – or exactly the same.
21.) Watch a holiday movie. Laugh.
22.) Binge watch a tv show that makes you smile. Catch a couple episodes away from your computer and phone. Take the watch off too.
23.) Order out.
24.) Order in.
25.) COOK and enjoy a new recipe – gourmet & complicated or basic simplicity. Bake a cake. Cookies to give away. Make ice cream. Freeze grapes. Comfort food – or take comfort in making a healthy switch.
26.) Put it on your favorite plate – especially if you never use it or are saving it for some future day. Enjoy it on THIS day.
Whatever you do – make it something memorable.
This gratitude wheel was found on Tens4mind by another author a few years back. It’s awesome. Please use it to inspire your own or contact them for more.
Take an outside moment and treat yourself as an old friend!
27.) Touch something earthy.
28.) Step outside your front door. Or your back door. Side door. ANY door. Breath in fresh air.
29.) Walk into your yard. Feel the grass. Look around. Look up. See what’s budding. What’s blooming.
30.) Walk to the street. Take your dog. Toss a ball. It’s okay to go pick it up yourself and toss it again. Just move. Toss it farther. They’ll walk with you!
31.) Do you have a stoop? Sit on the stoop! or the porch. or the front wall. or the curb.
32.) Play jacks.
33.) Use sidewalk chalk.
34.) Take your journal outside. Write. Sketch. Is it hot and you miss the holiday season? Draw a silly holiday tree and decorate it. Be a kid. Just for a moment.
35.) Color outside. Read outside. Talk to people outside. Weed a garden as you talk on the phone. Just do it outside.
36.) Get your camera. Capture the sunrise or the mid-day moon. Laugh at how all 30 pictures didn’t turn out. Then marvel at the one of clouds that did.
37.) Look at the summer night sky.
38.) There’s a meteor shower? Set your alarm and watch.
39.) Drink coffee while looking out the window or while sitting outside.
40.) Take a nap on your porch.
41.) Go get a massage to relax your muscles and brain.
42.) Take a drive.
43.) Ride your bike.
44.) Find some wildflowers – one is all you need. Just pop it into a vase or float it in a bit of water. If it lasts for an hour or a day, it did its job.
45.) Or make an inexpensive bouquet that could last weeks. Snip the stems. Add whatever those particular flowers need to live. Look it up!
46.) Be spontaneous and experience something new. Go somewhere new.
47.) Window shop. You don’t have to spend any $ but if you do, support a local retailer.
48.) Reason to take a quick walk or drive over lunch just to break the scenery and free your mind from those walls. You don’t have to spend.
However “it” helps you, let it help brighten your day.
49.) Find a local fountain and go make a wish.
50.) Host a game night. Just for yourself or invite whoever. Play online or play in person. Make it easy. No stress. Pull out a word search and take it to a park. Take a deck of cards and invite a friend.
51.) Be charitable. Any charity that speaks to you will welcome your help. Let sad feelings and anger take a backseat as you focus on helping others in need. It’s a walk. It’s delivering. It’s cleaning dog kennels. Donate. A small effort can make a huge difference.
Can’t get outside?
52.) Can you get to another room? Can you get to a lobby? Look out a different window?
53.) Look out a window. Soak in your view. The sky. The clouds. Was the weather reporter correct today? What view do you look forward to after work?
54.) Don’t like your view? Change it. Seriously. Change it.
Literally change it or add a picture, drape some fabric over a chair that you see before looking beyond it. Put something natural or handmade on the windowsill.
Create your positive environment.
You are there for a reason. Make that reason work for you and let it inspire you to get to a future view you like much better.
Baby steps are okay. They are steps.
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow” – Helen Keller
Take a PHYSICAL moment and walk the walk!
Release your endorphins! Let negative emotions go, reduce stress, and let thoughts of depression go. Feel better and get out of your rut with movement. Do something physical or do something that improves you physically.
55.) Breathe deeply for a minute – use the Breathe app.
56.) Drink a glass of water. 1 down 7 to go, depending on your goal.
57.) Do you have 30 minutes? An hour? Take an exercise class.
58.) Join a gym.
59.) Walk up a flight of stairs.
60.) Stretch and hold. What are you looking at? The wall? Do you like the color? Should you tack up a picture or quote?
61.) Use a curb to stretch your calf.
62.) Use a kettlebell.
63.) Hold canned goods or a book in each hand and stretched out your arms.
64.) Find a good trail and walk somewhere new.
65.) Find a view. Even if it’s a different and interesting tree. Find reason to use a walking stick.
66.) Plan a healthy colorful meal.
67.) Make tea with honey.
68.) Make fresh cucumber water. If you have mint, add some. Boil some ginger. Put it in a pretty glass with a colorful reusable straw.
69.) Start a new healthy habit. Take the easy route or challenge yourself.
70.) Go to a doctor. If you know yourself and you just aren’t normal, maybe it’s a hormonal imbalances or lack of vitamins and minerals. Find out. If you haven’t had any vegetables or pre and probiotics, assess and get what you need. Make the effort.
71.) Hug your dog. or cat. or your neighbor’s dog. Or Your Mom – Or Anyone You Love. A real hug too, not a pat on the back. A hug.
72.) Give yourself credit. I haven’t exercised all week, but I did touch my toes on Monday. Touch them again. Right now. Reach and hold.
73.) ‘And then give yourself More credit. Sometimes the bare minimum is all you have time for. Or all you are up for.
74.) Use your time to commit (or recommit) to a new healthy hobby.
What comes to mind? Your options are endless. Have a reasonable expectation, then take that first step.
75.) Try yoga. It’s therapeutic in many ways, and a great way to support your mental health, physical health, and get fresh air.
We all experience down moments. We get hit by lousy experiences that are hard to shake. It is cloudy for what seems like forever, or it’s too cold. We work and do all the right things and have to start over.
Whatever it is, it happens, and it happens to us all. Handle it yourself if that is best. Connect with someone – family members, friends, other business owners. Either way. You know yourself. What works for you?
Tackle it. Follow your own lead. Don’t let it overtake you and ruin all that good work and strides you have taken. Make today special. Make every day special. Make every day worth your while.
You got this.
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