Want more misery in your life? Tired of feeling joyful all the time? Wish you had less inner peace?

Then you’re in luck!

Check out these hot tips to put a damper on your happiness today:

1. Compare Yourself to Others

Compare yourself to others, especially in a negative way.

How are you not good enough? What do others have that you don’t? What does your real life look like vs someone’s highlight reel on social media?

Dwell on these questions and you’ll be on the road to UN-happiness in no time.

2. Keep Setting the Bar Higher

As soon as you get close to reaching a goal, set a new higher bar to reach so it doesn’t really feel like you’ve accomplished anything.

Do this over and over again.

Bonus: Convince yourself you’re way off track, even though in this present moment you’ve already achieved countless things that you wanted at some point.

3. Don’t Celebrate Easy Wins

If something good happens to you, make sure not to celebrate it, especially if it just lands in your lap!

You didn’t work hard for it? Must not be worth much. That $1million opportunity that just floated your way? Worthless! May as well throw it away.

Remind yourself: “Joy must always be HARD” and you’ll shift into instant UN-happiness like a pro.

4. Base Your Happiness on Your Ability to Predict the Future

That goal you want to reach? That life vision you have in mind? That experience you hope to have?

If what you envisioned doesn’t turn out exactly as you’d planned, or happen on the timeline you’d imagined, make sure to blame yourself for your unique ability to NOT be able to predict the future. Because truly, you’re the only one who can’t.

Rather than acknowledging the infinite pieces at play in life, and the reality we can’t actually fully control anything, make sure to only allow yourself to be happy when your future-telling skills are 100% spot on.

5. Live by Others’ Opinions

What do you really want? Who are you really? What do you care about deep inside?

If you want to be miserable, it doesn’t matter!

Rather than following your own truth to create your path forward, make sure to zig zag through life following other peoples’ opinions, hopes, dreams and fears. You’ll never run out of people to please or opinions to take on, and the possibilities are infinite!

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Wondering which hot tip to use first?

The good news is, most of us do most of these things quite easily all on our own without even trying!

Prefer to rebel and want to do the opposite of what I’ve shared here?

Go for it!

In fact, it just may be the key to what you’re truly searching for after all.

With gratitude,

Lena

Note:

In the spirit of April Fools’ Day, these tips are shared with humor, and as a joy advocate, I don’t actually recommend implementing them…but I’m guessing you probably knew that. 😊

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Lena D. Meyer is a Transformational Life Coach, and the founder of Gratitude6. She is ranked as one of the top life coaches in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, and since 2008 has supported hundreds of people in living their most joyful, purposeful, and empowered lives. Including media and public speaking events, her tools and messages have reached thousands.

Her specialties include intuition, mindset shifts, life transitions and positive impact, and she believes now more than ever we have the opportunity to create positive change in our lives and world.