Be active: Exercise and other physical activities won’t make your problems or stress disappear, but they will reduce their emotional intensity and give you mental space to sort out problems – as well as keep you physically fit.
Connect with people: If you examine most of the happiness scales, relationships with others come near the top of these lists.
Learn new skills: Keeping “cognitively active” is critical to your psychological and mental wellbeing and can provide you with new opportunities in terms of your career development. So try to keep learning.
Stay present: Enjoy the present and you will appreciate it more. Indeed, there is plenty of research on the positive aspects of mindfulness and how it can help with mental health.
Recognise the positives: Staying present also helps you to recognise the positives in your life – allowing you to be a glass half full rather than a glass half empty person.
Avoid unhealthy habits: Given what we know about their long-term consequences, using excessive alcohol or coffee consumption or smoking as a coping strategy for work stress is ultimately likely to have a negative impact on your happiness.