#Happiness April 29th

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April 2026 will take a slightly different approach to the 30-Day Challenge. Each day of the month, I’ll be participating in the 30-Day Tai Chi Coach4aday Challenge. What will be different this time is that my daily posts won’t be limited to that day’s exercises—I want the freedom to share more spontaneous and wide-ranging thoughts along the way.

I will still include the focus of each day’s Tai Chi routine, but much of what I write may explore topics far removed from exercise. Just as Tai Chi is designed to improve flexibility, I hope my writing reflects that same sense of openness and adaptability each day. For Day 29 my thoughts are on HAPPINESS Habits.

“Tai Chi” 30 Day Challenge

Searching online for a 30-Day program brought me face to face with lots of options but I have chosen a plan led by Dr Alan Potts PT. You can download the schedule I am utilizing at this link.

It looks like this.

Challenge Guidelines

1. View the daily video and mirror what you see.
2. Complete all 30 daily exercises

Day 26-Tai Chi-Moment of Reflection

Alan’s Day 29 lesson can be viewed below

April 29th-Happiness

Happiness is not an absence of problems, obstacles or challenges in your life but rather your reaction to them. The state of being happy is actually a habit or a behavior more than a reactive emotion. Listed below are Happiness Habits that have been beneficial for me.

Nine Happiness Habits

1. Be Grateful-Evaluate what you have in your life right now and appreciate that.
2. Optimism-teach yourself to be upbeat-I have a catch phrase I stole from Zig Ziglar when people ask me how I am doing? My response is; “I’m fabulous but working on improving”.  Some days I don’t start out feeling fabulous but after repeating this a few times a day I actually am fabulous.
3. Try to practice a daily act of kindness-thank you notes-phone calls-doing good things for others. I am convinced that acts of kindness stimulates a sense of bliss in you that is a far better feeling you can get than taking any kind of anti-depressant drug.
4. Invest time in being a great friend to others and in return you will have friends when you need them.
5. Take care of you-eat right-exercise-get enough sleep
6. Don’t hold a grudge-forgive-hate requires energy-don’t expend your energy on a negative emotion.
7. If possible steer clear of emotional landmines or drama majors-try to stay out of other people’s negative conversations. I choose to spend my time with positive uplifting people.
8. Happy people are in love-love is not a feeling-love is ACTION. Take ACTION that will make others feel better.
9. Believe there is a wonderful purpose for your life-because there is.