Quick Steps To Improve Your Mood

Looking to improve your mood?

Edward W. Smith, motivational speaker, author and TV show host, who specializes in quick tips on how to move your life ahead even faster, offers the following advice.

The best way to improve your mood and keep it higher on a consistent basis over time is to maintain a list of the things you are grateful for, and review it on a daily basis. Make a written list of all of the things and people in your life that you are grateful for. First, you will discover many things you were not aware of or things you had taken for granted. Secondly you will discover you have a lot more to be grateful for than you first thought.

Reducing the amount of negative news you take in will also improve your mood. Spend less time watching the news, and avoid being exposed to the news the first thing in the morning or just before you go to sleep. Replace the time spent taking in negative news with positive information taken from books, CDs, the web, etc, and be sure to expose yourself to this first thing in the morning and just before you go to sleep.

Contact Information
Edward W. Smith, 201-568-0019, edsmith@brightmoment.com, www.brightmoment.com, PO box 8106, Englewood NJ 07631-8106

Edward W. Smith is the author of Sixty Seconds To Success, he hosts and produces the Bright Moment TV show, is a motivational speaker, is president of the Bright Moment Seminars and publishes the free, daily email of the One Minute Motivator.

In The News:


Depression Leads to Internal Body Fat in 70-Somethings, Study Suggests
Wall Street Journal - 6 hours ago
People with depression were twice as likely as others to gain visceral fat -- the kind that surrounds internal organs and often shows up as belly fat. ...

SeniorJournal.com

Symptoms Of Depression Associated With Increase In Abdominal Fat
Science Daily (press release) - 4 hours ago
1, 2008) — Older adults with symptoms of depression appear more likely to gain abdominal fat, but not overall fat, over a five-year period, according to a ...
Depressive Symptoms and Change in Abdominal Obesity in Older Persons Archives of General Psychiatry
all 6 news articles

ABC News

Bernanke says crisis 'no comparison' to Great Depression
AFP - 1 hour ago
"Well, you hear a lot of loose talk, but let me just ... say, as a scholar of the Great Depression -- and I've written books about the Depression and been ...
Financial Meltdown Could Require Use of Depression-Era Rule American Institute for Economic Research
Bush Recounts an ‘Uh-Oh Moment’ Wall Street Journal Blogs
No comparison between now and 1930s, Bernanke says Reuters
The Australian - Community Impact Newspaperall 756 news articles

Depression linked to low bone density
Cincinnati.com, OH - 1 hour ago
By Peggy O’Farrell • pofarrell@enquirer.com • December 1, 2008 Depression and anxiety in their teen years could put girls at risk for brittle bones later in ...
Alcoholism Eats At Young Men's Bones Boston Channel.com
all 46 news articles

FDA gives OK for Impax depression drug
Bizjournals.com, NC - 8 hours ago
The Food and Drug Administration approved a generic copy of an antidepressant made by Impax Laboratories Inc. Regulators gave the drug — a copy of ...
Impax wins final FDA approval for generic depression drug Trading Markets (press release)
all 13 news articles

Telegraph.co.uk

Group therapy 'beats depression'
BBC News, UK - 17 hours ago
Group-taught meditation is as effective as staying on drug treatments for stopping people slipping back into depression, say UK scientists. ...
Depression Treatment: Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy As ... Science Daily (press release)
Meditation 'best for depression' The Press Association
Meditation combats depression, study finds TheMedGuru
InTheNews.co.uk - Daily Mailall 32 news articles

Morning preview: higher education in a recession; Reader comments ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 13 hours ago
I am of an age where I can remember my parents' stories about what it was like to live through the depression. My Mother telling me about her heartbreak ...

WKRG-TV

It's official: Recession since Dec. '07
CNNMoney.com - 6 hours ago
The current recession is one of the longest downturns since the Great Depression of the 1930's. The last two recessions (1990-1991 and 2001) lasted eight ...
Video: Money Minute: Recession, Paulson, Oil AssociatedPress
US entered recession December 2007, panel says Washington Post
Text of the NBER's statement on the recession and FAQ's: USA Today
Reuters - Hartford Courantall 702 news articles

Depression leads to internal fat in 70-somethings
Live 5 News, SC - 3 hours ago
People with depression were twice as likely as others to gain visceral fat -- the kind that surrounds internal organs and often shows up as belly fat. ...

Business Beat

The road to depression
Daily Times, Pakistan - 3 hours ago
If a depression is to be avoided, it will have to be the work of other arms of the government, with other tools and powers. The failure to contain the ...
The great crisis of the 1930s Granma International
all 213 news articles
depression - Google News

How To Help A Stressed Or Depressed Loved One

Having lived with a depressed partner for 3 years and... Read More

A Look at the Different Depression and Anxiety Medications

While it may be easy to recite the various brand... Read More

Wellbutrin For Depression: When Its More Than Just The Blues

We all have blue days:We're missing someone we've lost, the... Read More

Suffocate

I felt cold, my body was stiff and my back... Read More

Being A Victim Is Always A Choice

Do you blame your past, your family, your partner, your... Read More

Change Your Life Forever with New Medical Breakthrough Treatment for Depression

With the next few weeks, the FDA is expected to... Read More

Natural Remedies For Depression

It is true that forms of depression cannot be avoided,... Read More

Raise Your Feeling Frequency with a Loving Smile

In every moment of our life we have the choice... Read More

Depression - Causes and Treatments

Depression has long been considered a character flaw indicative of... Read More

Andropause and Depression

Andropause correlates directly with depression ? a major player in... Read More

Major Depression and Its Serious Complications

When suffering from clinical depression, people have different ways of... Read More

Depression Series: Why Don?t I Respond to Medications? (Part 1)

Maria has been feeling depressed for at least two and... Read More

Quick Steps To Reduce Your Worries

Looking for a way to reduce the amount of worrying... Read More

Manic Depressive Episodes And Scientology

Scientologists believe that chemical imbalances do not exist. In their... Read More

How Do You Know if You Have Manic-Depression

Nancy was doing very well until about two years ago... Read More

I Love You, I Hate You But Dont Go: Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder

It amazes me that 6-10 million Americans have been diagnosed... Read More

American Indian Youth and Depression - Using Traditions To Heal The Wounds

When most people hear the words American Indian, visions of... Read More

Depression

The 'experts' have tried to evaluate me as a sufferer... Read More

I?m Not Depressed; I?ve Just Been Having A Lousy Conversation With Myself

Not long ago, I attended a mastermind group. During the... Read More

The Formula for Preventing Depression

While it is arguable that depression is not always preventable,... Read More

Beating Stress, Anxiety and Depression

Why are these illnesses on the rise? And why do... Read More

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome And Depression Are Not The Same Thing!

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a... Read More

Depressed? Wise Woman Ways Offer a Helping Hand

Winter time is depression time for many women. Perhaps it... Read More

Your Daily Struggle With Depression

If you have been diagnosed with depression or feel that... Read More

Seven Ways To Deal With Your Depression

It has just been announced, after a study by a... Read More