The concepts, tools, and activities that I will implement moving forward from the class Total Fitness include changes to improve my individual and social skills. I plan on continuing with the individual skills of Hunt the Good Stuff, practicing Acts of Kindness and Crossfit. The skill of the Hunt the Good Stuff involves identifying recent events in my life that will help build positive emotion, optimism, and gratitude in my thoughts that may undercut my performance and mental toughness. This activity will help counteract my negativity bias. Incorporating Acts of Kindness as well will improve my introvertness to promote my social well-being as well as foster a sense of community. Doing acts of kindness would reduce my psychological stress, which reduces cellular aging caused by stress-related …show more content…
The first social activity that I will incorporate is active-constructive responding that involves showing a virtuous response to my wife’s good news. My response is conveyed in me responding enthusiastically, asking positive questions, and sharing in her joy helping to re-experience this good fortune. Increase in emotions for me and my wife is the goal within this type of exchange, thereby generating greater satisfaction within our marriage. Adding to this activity is turning towards where my wife and I will discuss matters in an open, listening, and engaged manner. This activity is an exchange between my wife and I where we are connecting (valuing my wife) in day-to-day matters that will strengthen our relationship. The basis for emotional connection, romance, passion and a good sex life is turning towards. To compliment this activity, I will also incorporate strength date where I understand my wife’s signature strengths where I will plan a date around a certain
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One thing that people today overlook so often is the simple but powerful act of kindness. You can just look at the drivers on the road and tell that kindness is not their first priority. I have discovered that kindness can change the community for the better.
The benefits of generosity for both our physical and mental health are outstanding. generosity reduces stress, supports one’s physical health, enhances one’s sense of purpose, and helps fight depression, it has also been shown to increase one’s lifespan because all the health benefits of not being stressed. You may think you are being selfless, but you are also benefiting yourself in a way you did not know about. Developing compassion increases our happiness. In an experiment published in Science by Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton, they gave money to; two sets of groups, one that spent money on themselves and the other spent it on other people. It was found that the people who bought presents for others showed an increase in happiness, this was even the case with children giving treats to others. We are using an unselfish event and making for an ego boost. However, by doing so we need to become conscious of the world around us.
Prior to designing the training program, fitness testing was completed. This tested the main fitness components that would be applied in physical activity. It was important that this was done in order to find my strengths and weaknesses
It may not seem like one is making a big difference, but even the smallest acts of kindness can brighten someone’s day. In Stave 2 of A Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Past shows Scrooge how Fezziwig, Scrooge’s old employer, was so kind to his employees. To this act of kindness Scrooge states,”The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.” When Scrooge sees how generous his employer was and what a positive impact he made on others by being generous and giving, it leads Scrooge to change his ways and become a nicer person that has a beneficial impact on others. As Morrie said in the article,“Tuesdays With Morrie: The Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Money”, “Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.” Moreover, caring for others and spreading kindness not only to oneself but also others, whether it be by donating to charity or just plainly going around and doing a good deed for others, is the key to happiness. No matter what it may be, even the smallest movement of giving can make a big difference in someone’s life. Just by putting a smile on someone’s face, a positive impact on the world has been made. Devoting yourself to something and being a better person will help bring accomplishment and joy to life and make a long lasting impact on those around you. This act of being kind and generous to others will have an everlasting positive impact on not only the receiver, but also the
For example, the recipients of repair are those who intend to repair or resolve the issue. The repair can only work between the couple depending on the amount of intimacy and friendship that already exists in the relationship. These two factors are then be used to build the first stage of what they call a love map. One of the fundamental characteristics of the friendship between two individuals is the intimate open ended questions asked by this person and the memorization of the answers. Another characteristic witnessed in the laboratory was the attention given to the partner speaking, for example results showed that those partners who paid more attention to their partner while he was trying to communicate or make a joke were those who continued to be married for a longer period of time. Overall it can all be summarized in seven steps that will allow a relationship to flourish, and those are: enhance your love map, nurture fondness and admiration, this means that it is imperative to be able to remind yourself about the worthiness your partner possesses. The third step is turning toward each other, by giving your partner the attention they crave you are acknowledging their presence and making them feel how important they are to you. The fourth step is to let your partner influence you, by giving each other the respect in decision making for a happy marriage, it
Science proves that helping others, donating, or volunteering our time can actually make us happier and leaves us healthier which allows us to live longer.
Kindness can be demonstrated in a number of forms. At school, in home, around neighborhoods, during after school activities, and anywhere else you can imagine. An act of KIndness does not have to change the world,
Treating others with kindness benefits everyone involved. For example, in the story “Angel in Disguise”, the author states "We'll keep her a day or two longer; she is so weak and helpless," said Mrs. Joe Thompson…” She was starting to open up to Maggie and realize that she loves her as if she were her own child. This helps lift Mrs. Thompson’s sprits and shows her that she can feel feelings. This shows how being kind to Maggie made her a more loving person in the end. Additionally, in the article, “Teaching Kindness,” the author states that “As minds and bodies grow, it’s abundantly clear that children require a healthy dose of the warm-and-fuzzies to thrive as healthy, happy, well-rounded individuals.” This is proof that children need kindness
For example, when I was in high school in Arizona, I went to an orphanage in Mexico for community service hours for high school graduation. At first, I thought that would be very boring for me because I thought I could not get anything out of the process. However, when I spent two days with those kids, I felt happy. In the orphanage, we cooked the lunch and served the kids. After lunch, we played soccer with them. We also did a lot of fun activities with them, such as playing with them on the beach, drawing painting with them. Even though it took a lot of time to prepare and clean up afterward, I felt satisfied. When I played with them, they always had happy faces. I’ve never seen that kind of smile in my life. That kind of smile is from their heart; it made me feel like doing all of these stuff is worthy. When they said “thank you”, I gain happiness way more than like I get present from others. I gain happiness and the sense of self-satisfaction from serving others. “Helping others kindles happiness, as many studies have demonstrated. When researchers at the London School of Economics examined the relationship between volunteering and measures of happiness in a large group of American adults, they found the more people volunteered, the happier they were, according to a study in Social Science and Medicine. Compared with people who never volunteered, the odds of being “very happy” rose 7% among those
Steve Maraboli once said that, “ A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.” Mr.Maraboli points out that if you do something nice, it might make something happen. Volunteering makes a big impact on your community and yourself. Volunteering makes people happier, starts the boomerang effect, which both help to make the world a better place.
Small acts of kindness can have impacts on others. I was watching a video in my english class and the video showed how hard it is for people in Syria to live. There was a group of people who came and helped the Syrians and got some of them out. That changed the lives of those people. Small acts of kindness can change lives, can encourage others to do good things and make someone feel better. For example someone might be really depressed and what if another person gave them a small smile then maybe that would make them feel better or at least a bit happier. Small acts of kindness are very important to the world. If everyone did something kind once in a while the world would be a better place. Imagine how many good things could come out of a small act of kindness.
Second, performing acts of kindness can benefit others pass on the kindness. For example, holding the door for
In gym class I made goals to better myself with my personal fitness and that I did. In this paper I will outline how I scored on my fitness tests and how this correlates to improvement or regression, why there was a change or not a change with my scores from Baseline to posttest, and Goals I have for myself to continue to be physically for the remainder of High School and beyond.
Being kind is another advantageous tip on how to live a happy and healthy life. Committing ourselves to be sympathetic to others along with to ourselves brings a new pinnacle of joy and gusto to us.