This is the fourth episode of The Alphabet of Happiness 26-Day Boost, celebrating the launch of Klaudia Mitura’s new book: The Alphabet of Happiness.
Today’s letter is D for Dreams. Klaudia explores how having ambitions and long-term goals can inspire more meaning, motivation, and happiness in your life. Discover why thinking big (but planning in 90-day steps) helps you make real progress—without burnout.
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Hello happiness seekers. I'm Klaudia Mitura, work psychologist and certified chief happiness Officer.
And to celebrate the launch of my new book, the Alphabet of Happiness, I'm bringing you 26 days of science back happiness principles one for every letter of the Alphabet inspired by my book, each day you will get a practical tip in under five minutes and I've very much designed this to give your mood a real boost. This challenge is our official countdown to the big launch party on 31 October at the Science Museum in London.
On and today's letter is D4Dreams, which is ultimately about having ambitions, goals and intentions that make you feel good about your future. Research shows that by thinking of our life in more extended time frames, we connect with a possible tomorrow.
We inspiring a higher level of meaning, motivation and a sense of direction.
And dreams also lift our happiness because they develop our skills, they build our confidence, they strengthen our self belief and we often learn and complete new things.
However, you will know from experience that as much as dreams can challenge us, motivate and excite us, they also may bring us some stress, sorrow and burnout. Especially if we are attempting to achieve ambitions in a quite unsuitable or unrealistic way.
So in the Alphabet of Happiness I dive deeper into how to ensure that we can achieve without burnout. And for today's action is start with some simple planning.
We often have those very big long term goals, but the best way to really achieve them without stressing, without worrying is to divide them into a 90 day smaller goals so that you have enough time to make meaningful progress towards your vision. But you also have a little bit of sense urgency to complete what you started.
And if you have those smaller steps like every week, one thing that you can do towards your goal, you also feel much more in control of the progress and you're not stressing, oh my goodness, I have to do all of this in a short period of time. You have a plan and you know that if you follow each step one by one, you will get to your goal.
It's very simple and we often understand this in principle, but I think in a very busy environment, especially at work, we lose a sight of that and we become very much overwhelmed and we're not really sure if we're making progress. So create your 90 day smaller goals challenge and concentrate on that. I hope you have found this idea useful.
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Tag me and remember, by tagging other people, by tagging me, by talking about the book, by talking about this boost, you are entering a chance to win one of the three signed copies of the Alphabet of Happiness. So thank you so much again, and I see you tomorrow for the next letter. Bye.
