75 ways to boost your mood and morale

In this article you will learn the following

-75 practical ways to boost your morale and up-lifting your mood

-20 tips for boosting employee morale

Most people experience feelings of - unhappiness, being-lost, confused, restless, frustrated or irritable - many times.

If this phase passes in few days - then that is perfectly normal and ok - as no one is expected to and can feel positive all the time.

But prolonged low morale can create serious, damaging, harmful and toxic effects.

Many people who know that something is not right but still go on avoiding the real issue - hoping that it would go away by itself - it does not.

Best way is to take control by identifying the cause of your low morale and tackling it head on by identifying all that you can do.

You might also be of the type - who feels that your happiness is just around the corner - when you get a better job or find a better relationship or move to a better place - but this you will yourself experience - does not happen [ and you wait perpetually].

Sometimes when you are going through trying and challenging phases - it certainly helps if you can get a shop of temporary happiness time to time.

There are several natural methods for boosting your mood and morale.

You can take many actions to be happier and live a more fulfilling life.

Like when you consciously want to improve your physical health and go for exercises and physical activities - it can immediately boost your mood and ward off depression.

Your food-habits and what you eat - can significantly impact your moods and emotional wellbeing.

Strengthening your social, personal and family relationship - have the potential of rejuvenating your all aspect of life.

When you are actively involved in community and social causes - your persona both internal as well as external undergoes noticeable transformations.

75 ways to boost your morale and up-lifting your mood

• 1.Spend time with your most loved-ones regularly - talking, recalling past great moments, looking at the old-photos, having snacks and doing activities
• 2.Identify activities that makes you feel great and gives meaning to your life and pushes you to be your best self
• 3.Identify your area of development - that will create significant value to your life
• 4.Focus on what you can control - take actions within your area of influence - ignore all that is beyond you right now
• 5.Find a mentor - who has qualities you admire and who is genuinely interested in promoting your wellbeing
• 6.Mentor someone - it could be the best way to help yourself
• 7.Volunteer by actively participating and supporting by identifying a social-cause that makes you feel good
• 8.Join professional groups and forums - where you have people you admire - actively participate and learn
• 9.Take-up a new hobby - where people from different background come together
• 10.Learn a new language
• 11.Teach something you are good at - on payment or pro-bono or just for the fun of it
• 12.Find a person with whom you can open your heart - [exercise due caution]
• 13.Go for a solo or organized-group trip
• 14.Surf the internet for something that you are not clear about but which can add value to you if you know
• 15.If you can pay attention to how the breath enters and travel within your body and then gets out - spend time breathing very slowly
• 16.Try aromatherapy - experiment with natural fragrances
• 17.While doing something - play a soft-soothing music
• 18.Dance when alone -consciously recall your favorite tune and hum softly and let your body flow with the music automatically - remember this is a mind thing that is initially you have to force yourself do it till it become an act that you can do on demand
• 19.Schedule a time to record or recall -replaying all that went well today for you
• 20.Schedule time to solve jumbled-word, jigsaw and crossword puzzles and other mental-power enhancing activities
• 21.Drink coffee - if you feel energized by this
• 22.Get moving - step outside and get some sun - being in green and natural environments can boost happiness - Listen to birdsong
• 23.Visualize your best self - smile
• 24.Touch something soft like hug a teddy bear
• 25.Read children comics
• 26.Watch cartoons
• 27.Do something nice for someone else - offer a compliment, hold open a door or send a note of appreciation
• 28.Do some yoga
• 29.Go for getting exposed to cultural activities - seeing a theatrical-play, watching performance of great artists or visiting art-galleries
• 30.Talk to a stranger have a positive interactions
• 31.If you are feeling very sad - do a reverse-therapy - listen to sad songs - at times it may actually provide you with a much-needed emotional release
• 32.If you are getting overwhelmed and frustrated because of a big-target - break that into small-small attainable micro-goals
• 33.Take a break from social-media - especially if you find yourself depressed
• 34.If possible get a massage
• 35.Practice walking confidently - Learn power hand-shake
• 36.Play in the dirt - play games that make you sweat and needs solid bursts of energy
• 37.Look at all that you do have - as there will always be people who have more than you in one area of life or another - change your perspective and sometimes look at those who have less than you
• 38.Learn and do the right-fit meditation
• 39.Choose to be joyous now - at least by identifying what you have that is real blessing
• 40.Wake up earlier - just sit visualizing your dreams and future steps and formulating your action-steps
• 41.Declutter your house - tidy your desk, wardrobe and room
• 42.Smile at the first stranger you see
• 43.Make people or someone laugh
• 44.Make your loved-one's day - by creating pleasant surprise for them
• 45.Finishing washing-clothes, ironing and doing-dishes -before you go to bed
• 46.Do things that improves your emotional wellbeing - like watching sports with a friend, soaking in the bath or meeting up with friends
• 47.Try your hand by experimenting and dabbling in cooking and gardening
• 48.Avoid drinking alcohol or eating junk food.
• 49.Create a healthy lifestyle
• 50.Learn to express and share your negative feelings - instead of just keeping them within yourself - it could be with a friend, family member or counsellor - choose wisely
• 51.Develop your resilience - by proactively taking worthy goals - which makes you stretch and develop your capabilities
• 52.Start a support group to help others
• 53.Try to turn your bad phases by creatively making something worthwhile- like say writing-blogs, painting or expressing your experience of pain with other sufferers
• 54.Create challenging opportunities - push yourself to try new things
• 55.Upgrade yourself by learning and acquiring new skills
• 56.Build your network - professional, social as well as support-one
• 57.Find inspiration - identify your role-models - and try to imbibe some of their habits by mirroring and modeling
• 58.Disrupt your routine - create random changes
• 59.Engage in completely new activity - to help your brain learn to think about problems in a more innovative ways
• 60.Create improvements projects - in your personal, professional and relationships
• 61.Find ways to distract yourself to stay sane, strong, activeand energetic during your crisis phase
• 62.Learn to view your life's most difficult times - in disassociated and objective state - and then work out plan on how will you get out - as if advising some body else
• 63.Pay attention to the basic essentials and ensure that you have these
• 64.Learn the healthy ways to manage your stress, depression and your anxiety
• 65.Make a list of friends and family members - who uplift you - when you are feeling bad call them - but don't take them for granted use this privilege selectively
• 66.Start a daily exercise habit to keep fit and build your immune system.
• 67.Obtain credentials that will advance your career - explore from thousands of MOOC courses
• 68.Read books of various genre
• 69.Use an online recipe to cook a new dish
• 70.Go for a camping trip
• 71.Watch classic movies
• 72.Share an uplifting story on social media that counters negativity, worry and fear
• 73.Cuddle with your loved ones and all that follows
• 74.If you can donate blood - go and donate it has both physical and emotional benefits

75.Make a list of procrastinated household jobs of fixing, painting, repairing - get on with this list and tick them-off as you finish these one by one

20 tips for boosting employee morale

• 1.Value your employee - create ritual that make your employees feel valued
• 2.Maintain transparency and open communication- to explain organizational changes, reduce uncertainty, and get workers excited about new opportunities
• 3.Support employee-led initiatives
• 4.Promote work-life balance among employees
• 5.Invest in trust building
• 6.Don't ignore the power of small gestures
• 7.Understand that employee morale boosting is a regular ongoing effort
• 8.Understand and then eliminate or minimize the following 14 causes of low employee morale at your work-place
• I.Lack of growth opportunities
• II.No career path for performers and achievers
• III.Lack of clarity and communication
• IV.Leadership changes
• V.Poor leadership
• VI.Lack of facilities
• VII.Lack of support
• VIII.Bad product or services
• IX.Bias and partiality
• X.No meritocracy
• XI.Bad bosses
• XII.Lack of ownership and accountability
• XIII.No employee engagement
• XIV.No customer engagement
• 9.13 ways to boost employee morale
• I.Communicate often
• II.Take feedback often -create 360 degree informal feedback
• III.Implement performance management system with clear kpis, kras and rewards
• IV.Create training, coaching, mentoring, shadowing, buddy-system
• V.Create motivating superior performance incentives - both monetary as well as non-monetary
• VI.Recognize employees - celebrate new hires,
• VII.Make decisions based on in-organizational surveys
• VIII.Launch a suggestion box and implement all those which are practical - then give the employee whose suggestions are shared the deserving limelight
• IX.Provide all necessary information
• X.Create situations for personal touch of senior leadership
• XI.Never hide problems or avoid conversations when morale is low - instead involve the employees in decision-making and problem-solving
• XII.Fix issues that creates dis-engagements and dissatisfactions and frustrations in your employees
• XIII.Train managers to be leaders and not bosses
• 10.Organize team building activities
• 11.Provide amazing employee incentives
• 12.Promote workplace diversity
• 13.Let go of workplace bullies
• 14.Include remote workers in announcements and updates
• 15.Set clear expectations
• 16.Implement remote team building games and activities
• 17.Confront frustrations head on
• 18.Don't disrupt schedules
• 19.Start reverse mentoring - learn from each other
• 20.Lead by example