Better Mood – 50 Tips To Always Feel Happy

Want to improve your mood? Then you've come to the right place! We all know days or phases when our mood is in the basement and somehow nothing goes as desired.

A short or long-term bad mood can have an incredible number of causes - from bad weather and stress at work to personal strokes of fate. Fortunately, there are at least as many ways to improve your mood!

In this article, I will therefore introduce you to simple but extremely effective mood boosters that you can use to bring a good mood into your everyday life. Let's go!

Background: What causes a bad mood?

Of course, a bad mood can have many other causes. Knowing them provides us with the decisive starting points to derive mood-enhancing measures and tips.

That's why I've put together a few more Typical triggers of a (rather) depressed mood:

• Emotional stress (e.g. personal losses or emotional crises)
• Stress (e.g. excessive demands at work, family obligations or financial worries)
• Physical factors (e.g. lack of sleep, unhealthy diet and lack of exercise)
• Lack of self-care (e.g. lack of relaxation breaks and little Time for you)
• Social isolation (e.g. loneliness or due to reduced self-confidence)
• Negative thought patterns (e.g. pessimistic basic attitude and brooding)
• Weather (e.g. change of season or rainy days with little sunlight)
• Underchallenge (e.g. boredom due to monotonous routines)
• Unhealthy lifestyle (e.g. excessive consumption of meat, sugar, tobacco or alcohol)

10 measures & 50 tips: How can you improve your mood?

Now you know the usual reasons for depressed moods. So let's go one step further and lift your mood! Many people have developed their very own methods for this. Some may prefer to take a relaxing bath or a Walkothers pick up their Activated charcoal filter for joints (smoking weed can have both positive and negative effects) or chilling out at the nearest lake.

But you will certainly brighten your mood with a few actions and concrete tips to go with themwhich I will now present to you below. Simply implement them one by one to become happier!

1. laughter

Laughter is one of the easiest and most effective ways to instantly put you in a good mood! Why? Because your body absorbs much more oxygen, Releases happiness hormones, Stress reduced and strengthens your immune system. The company of family and friends also creates a wonderful feeling of togetherness.

Here are some ideasto make you laugh more often:

1. Meet up regularly with people (with positive character traits) that are good for you.
2. Watch comedies or funny videos. (e.g. recordings from your childhood)
3. Go to a comedy show or an evening of cabaret.
4. Read funny books and listen to humorous podcasts or audio books.
5. Sign up for group laughter therapy. It has been proven to have a positive effect on your mental and physical health.¹

2. writing

From the broken washing machine, to unpaid bills, to countless appointments in your calendar that you have to wait for. not really in the mood have: Everyday life can be stressful and depress your mood!

That's why I can only strongly advise you to focus on the positive things - e.g. a good breakfast or praise from your work colleagues. Hold on to these things and keep your thoughts in a calming order. 

Here are again a few suggestionswhich should improve your mood in this respect:

6. Get yourself a diary and write down the things you are grateful for every day.
7. Write personal letters to your friends and family.
8. Discover creative writing for yourself (e.g. short stories or poems)
9. Start a blog and share your thoughts and passions with other people.
10. Write down your goals and dreams and create a positive and tangible vision for your future that you can display on your pinboard.

3. food

What we eat has a direct influence on our well-being. One Balanced diet with fresh ingredientswhich are rich in vitamins and minerals, is important for this.

The nutrients for a good mood include the essential amino acid Tryptophan, the Vitamins B3 and B6, but also Omega-3 fatty acids, Potassium and Folic acid.

Mood-enhancing foods therefore include, for example dark chocolate, pineapple, bananas, vanilla, berries, pulses, nuts and seeds as well as Whole grain products.

Here a few suitable suggestionsthat you can implement in the future:

11. Prepare your favorite food and enjoy it consciously.
12. Grow some food yourself in the garden. (e.g. cucumbers or potatoes in a raised bed)
13. Cook fresh, organic, vegan and regional-seasonal food more often - and eat convenience food less often.
14. Drink enough water every dayto regulate your fluid balance.
15. Visit your favorite restaurant and treat yourself to a dish you haven't tried before.

4. help

Do you want to improve your mood? Then I can only recommend that you get involved with others. Whether for humans or animalswhether in everyday private life or at work - Helpful and good deeds make you happy!

It is above all the immense gratitudethat you experience in the process, which brightens your mood.

When you these exemplary proposals you are guaranteed to be in a better mood straight away:

16. Get involved as a volunteer. (e.g. at the food bank or for refugees)
17. Live a vegan lifestyle and actively campaign for animal rights and against the World hunger one.
18. Start, sign or share a sustainable petition against a certain grievance.
19. Offer older neighbors your help with their everyday tasks.
20. Take one Dog from animal welfare with you.

5. create

Being creativeis like balm for the soul. Whether you tinkering, painting, screwing, sanding or hammering: Creative craft hobbies not only increase your concentrationbut also offer you a great opportunity to reduce everyday stress and increase your feelings of happiness.

What can this look like in practice? I have also written about this here a few ideas for you:

21. Take part in a watercolor painting course near you.
22. Build your own dining tableinstead of buying it new.
23. Make gifts or decorative items for friends and family.
24. Turn a few Euro pallets into a single raised bed.
25. Place a wild corner in garden and create a habitat for numerous animals.

6. change

If you want to be in a good mood, you should venture into the unknown more often and establish new habits. Because sometimes giving up the familiar can unfold a liberating effect and create a positive atmosphere.

This tip works both at the turn of the year with healthy and sustainable Prefixesbut of course also throughout the rest of the year.

Here are a few more Ideas to create a good atmosphere for everyday practice:

26. Stop smoking - and use the time for better things!
27. Give up meat and enjoy the variety of vegetarian and vegan cuisine.
28. Travel more consciously and get to know foreign cultures more intensively on vacation know
29. Try your hand at Minimalism and create a calming order in your home.
30. Drink less or even No more alcohol.

7. sweating

Another way to be in a good mood is regular physical activity! With light exercise or active sport, for example Serotonin and dopamine (happiness hormones!) are released, stress is reduced and even anxiety is dampened.

So if you want to improve your mood, you should make this natural, balancing and sweat-inducing mood booster a a fixed part of your weekly calendar make

Try for example with these tips:

31. Go jogging twice a week. (or also Plogging ;-))
32. Fire up your favorite songs and dance (with friends) to them.
33. Try out new sports. (e.g. yoga, climbing or road cycling)
34. Always prefer the stairs to the escalator and elevator.
35. Treat yourself to regular relaxation in the sauna.

8. rest

Becoming more relaxed and you take regular rest breaks, not only helps you to find your inner balance, but also boosts your mood in the long term.

To make this work in the long term, you can start with some new Routines of everyday life.

Use for example these ideasto immediately feel better and more relaxed:

36. Practice meditation or calming breathing exercises every morning.
37. Try this Forest bathing in nature.
38. Read a good book in the bathtub or hammock.
39. Treat yourself to one a day soothing tea. (e.g. camomile or lemon balm)
40. Consciously take time to switch off and for your mental regeneration.

9. listening

Music in particular has a calming and mood-lifting effect on your mind. For example, you may remember some songs from your childhood and just haven't heard them for a long time. The memories associated with it are guaranteed to put a smile on your face!

Incidentally, the same applies to Sounds of nature good for your health and your mood. To enjoy them, you should definitely something daily Time in the fresh air and in the sun!

Here are a few possibilitiesthat you should definitely implement for a better mood:

41. Get over-ear headphones that block out distracting ambient noise.
42. Create and/or listen to a playlist with your favorite songs for a good mood.
43. Go out into nature and enjoy the sound of the trees and the rain, for example.
44. Attend concerts by the artists you celebrate!
45. Listen to music genres and podcasts that you haven't heard before.

10. learning

We've already talked about how new things can improve your mood. A real mood lift in this respect is targeted learning!

Acquiring new skills and knowledge and broadening your horizons brings a sense of achievement, makes you proudgives you more recognition from outside, strengthens your self-confidence and in this way also lifts your mood.

Here are some things you can learn to become more emotionally balanced and happier:

46. Register for a course or workshop in your area that interests you.
47. Learn a new language - e.g. via an evening course or an app.
48. Deal with the Reasons for the vegan lifestyle.
49. Read a challenging book. (e.g. "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy)
50. Improve your general knowledgeby playing tricky quiz games.

Improving your mood, made easy!

A good atmosphere is the The key to a fulfilled and happy life! And as you have learned today, you can contribute to this yourself with the right measures. From laughing, writing and eating, to helping and creating, to listening and learning: use these versatile tips to let a good mood into your life more often.

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

Marcus Aurelius (more at Joy of Life Quotes)

Do you have any questions, suggestions or other tips to brighten your mood? Then I look forward to hearing from you in the comments!

Stay in a good mood,

PS: Your mood can also improve dramatically if you stand up for yourself and don't always say "yes" to everything. How you learn to set clear boundariesI will now show you in the linked blog post.

1. K. Stiwi; J. Rosendahl (2022): Efficacy of laughter-inducing interventions in patients with somatic or mental health problems: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized-controlled trials, available at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1744388122000202. [09.09.2024]. ↩︎