Positive emotions and an attitude of gratitude are important assets that benefit your health, happiness, and relationships. Starting each day with these emotions may help you lead a happier, more successful, and fulfilling life.
These are the top five benefits you gain from a positive start to your day.
Better Mood
Starting your day with positivity increases your mood and helps you have a better day. Being positive brings you inner peace, lowers stress levels, increases optimism, and makes you feel good. All of these benefits combine to put you in a better mood.
Taking time out to inject positivity and gratitude into your day improves your mood at all times of the day but it is especially effective first thing in the morning.
Increased Health
Positive people are healthier than their peers. This is partly due to the lower stress levels experienced by those who practice positivity, but there is more to it than that, and scientists are still working to understand it. Positive people are healthier on every level and tend to live longer!
Starting your day with gratitude and positive thinking sets the tone for your entire day and will make you more positive throughout life.
More Success
Being positive and grateful first thing in the morning helps clear your mind and allows you to focus more on your daily tasks. This leads directly to having more success every day and over the long term. Positive people, as a whole, are much more successful than others. This is true in every aspect of life, from careers to relationships.
Happiness
Not only does starting your day with gratitude and positive thinking increase your mood, but it makes you happier. It boosts all of the “feel-good” hormones in the brain that make you happy. This isn’t a transitory effect, either; it lasts all day and, over the long term, increases your overall, permanent level of happiness.
Improved Relationships
When you start your day with positivity, you clear your brain and have a much better space to relate to the people you care about most. This makes it easier to maintain healthy, caring relationships. This improvement starts almost immediately and lasts over the long run.
These are just a few benefits of deliberately beginning each day with gratitude and positive thinking. You will experience many more if you make it a habit!
I’m the daughter of 2 original survivalists who moved from the north to sunny Florida. My mother, along with her parents, bought 30 mostly uncleared acres in 1938. The first home was made of pecky-cypress and built by a house-raising. My mother raised 10,000 chickens.
My divorced mother met and married my father in 1948. From pine trees on our property, he hand-built a log cabin. He also built a tarpaper-lined 65’x45′ pool with duck pond overflow. We had an artesian well for our water and powering our hand-built waterwheel for the pool. He built a substantial cantilevered roof workshop with a car pit in the massive cement floor.
Since my early teens, I have read a ton of books about survival, prepping, the bomb, an apocalypse, homestead living, and SHTF situations. As an adult, I continue to read sci-fi, survival prepping, and science. I practice a prepper lifestyle albeit a bit modified, read a lot, buy a lot, pack/store a lot of anything survival related.
Read my About Me post for more details on our self-sufficient living. I lived there until I went to college in 1968.
My SurvivalPrepperSupply.com blog strives to educate individuals on coping with natural and human-caused disasters using article posts about preparing for emergencies.
