There is no doubt that the things we watch, the activities that occupy us and the people we surround ourselves with can make life fun or boring and devastating. The good news is, it’s never too late to decide how to change your life for the better.

Vlogger Flavia Tumusiime points out that there are things you need to eliminate if you want to level up, shine, and be happy. And one of them is to change what you watch – Know who and what influences you as this has the potential to shape your whole life.

She says sometimes all you need to do is click on a YouTube video that takes you to lots of other videos, and it’s even easy to take an hour or more to watch. Before you know it, you’ve wasted your precious time on videos that aren’t even informative or without a message to take home.

“Personally, I got caught up watching shows on Netflix and kept sliding into the following seasons and wondered how I had finished four seasons in just two days. It’s even addicting to catch other series. Sometimes I would cut back on my sleep hours just to keep the show going, ”she says.

Ways to live a happier and more productive life. Photos / net.

Tumusiime urges to change what you watch and replace it with productive or knowledgeable content, either from podcasts, such as Robin Sharma’s ‘mastery session’ which she explains was instructive for her .

She also notes that while you watch YouTube looking for the content you need, if you are a mom or dad, you can watch parenting videos. If you’re dating, relationship videos will guide you, and so on. She doesn’t like the idea of ​​searching YouTube without knowing what to watch because it’s easy to get distracted by unnecessary videos.

In his book “The Art of Happiness”, the author and Dr. Howard C. Cutler writes that happiness is the goal of life. Once a person’s basic needs are met, happiness is more the result of the mind than of external events, conditions and circumstances.

This book explains that we each hold the key to our own happiness. He argues that by training our hearts and minds and actively working on our attitudes and perspectives, we can all achieve happiness.

“Pay attention to the things that make us happy and eliminate the things that make us suffer. By achieving peace of mind in this way, we can distance ourselves from material possessions and seek contentment and an inner sense of worth, ”Cutler writes.

Irene Mwiza is one of the many people who discovered happiness in unexpected ways. The Gikondo resident and a businesswoman lost their luster many years ago due to a romantic breakup that left her puzzled and wondering how to make her life as a single woman fun.

It wasn’t easy, but until she changed some habits, life was never the same.

For Mwiza, changing her look is what she did first. She started exercising and dieting in order to be fully comfortable and smart in some of her beautiful clothes that didn’t fit her anymore.

Although it took a long time to get results, she said she had to persist as she needed to prove to herself that she could do it. Once she hit her body weight goals, her confidence boosted.

She has also ventured into her own business and is no longer dependent on anyone for financial support as before.

Mwiza also tried to distance herself and cut off relationships and friendships that didn’t help her become a better person or level up.

“I have also resorted to reading books and I must admit that this gave me the power and the challenge to leave my comfort zone and use knowledge and ideas to reform myself as an individual. , friend, believer and corporate staff, ”she says.

Harvard study shows that close relationships, more than money or fame, are what make people happy throughout their lives. These bonds protect people from life’s annoyances, help delay mental and physical decline, and are better predictors of a long and happy life than social class, IQ, or even genes.

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