5 ways to discover the happier you
- Get out there and socialize. You are not going to meet people in your own house.
- Develop your interests. Connect with people who share the same hobbies and positive outlook. Do you want to become a runner, a potter, a great cook? Weave these activities into the new you.
- Work on your inner beauty. Feeling good about yourself and who you’ve become, will attract people into your life who have the same positive energy.
- Include your married friends in your activities. Let them see the new you, and what you have to offer—an interesting, stronger, happier, single woman.
- Be your own role model. Strive to become the type of person you admire. Make a list of the attributes you most respect, and do what you need to get there.
It’s important for you to think of yourself not just as a newly single woman, or a mother, but as someone who is so much more. A worker, a friend, a volunteer—there are so many roles that you can play. You need to weave these other roles into your definition of yourself.
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