15 Things To Do To Drastically Improve Your Mental Health

This also goes hand in hand with what I’ve mentioned above. Excessive screen time can often rob us of the chance to spend our time more mindfully.

Sometimes when we are spending time with the people that we love, instead of being present, we are often too distracted by our phones.

I’ve learned that by allowing myself the chance to take a break from technology, I’m giving myself the chance to enjoy other activities that actually positively benefit my soul and mental well-being.

It allows me the time to take a step back and reflect on what I’m currently feeling and disconnect from the noise of life and just connect more meaningfully with myself and the people that I love.

11. Learn To Slow Down And Take Breaks

How many times have you constantly pushed yourself to exhaustion and burned out? I’m no stranger to this feeling.

I believed that the only way for me to achieve my goals and find happiness was to constantly push myself every single day regardless of how exhausted and drained I was feeling.

But man was I wrong. Doing that only lead me to emotional and mental burnout. I didn’t realize how exhausted and drained I felt until I fell apart.

There’s no denying that working hard is important but let’s not fail to recognize that taking breaks and just slowing down is also as vital. There’s definitely nothing wrong with allowing yourself to take a break.

Taking a break or slowing down doesn’t make you a failure. Remember that most of the time, taking a break is just what we need to feel more motivated, creative and productive.

12. Create A Plan To Manage Stress Effectively

Stress will always be a part of life. Regardless of how much we try to avoid it. We are all bound to experience a degree of it from time to time that’s why having a plan on how to healthily manage your stress is also another vital mental health goal.

During this process, the important thing to remember is to find the strategy that really works for you and that will also greatly positively benefit your overall well-being.

What really worked for me was meditation. Every time I would face a problem, it allowed me to pause, breathe and calm myself down, instead of allowing myself to be swept away by a million different anxious thoughts and just thinking about the worst possible scenario.

13. Stop The Comparison Game

In today’s world, it’s so easy to spend our time comparing ourselves and our lives with other people.

I’m certainly guilty of this habit. Growing up, I was constantly made to believe that I was in competition with everyone around me. I was constantly compared with everyone else and made to think that for me to be worthy, I have to constantly be better than others.

I took this belief with me without realizing that it was slowly taking so much of me. I didn’t realize how unhappy I was.

Comparing ourselves with others will only ever lead to unhappiness and dissatisfaction. We each have different paths and journeys to take.

If we keep comparing ourselves with others and trying to have the kind of life that they have just because we think we need to conform to social expectations to be worthy, we are only wasting so much of our time living somebody else’s life.

You are worthy and enough in your own way and just as you are now. The only person that you should ever compare yourself with is who you were yesterday.

14. Learn To Let Go Of Control

How many times have you spent so much time and energy trying to control every little aspect of your life only to be met with disappointment?

Trying to control every little detail of my life had always been one of my bad habits. I believed that as long as I’m controlling or at least trying to control everything around me, I’m preventing things from falling apart.

But of course, that was not the case. Because the truth is, regardless of how hard we try and how much effort and time we put into it, there are still things that are beyond our control.

If we just keep spending so much attention and energy on those things, we will only be met with a lot of frustrations, heartaches, and disappointments.

The best thing that we can do is to accept the things that are out of our control and focus all our energy on the things that we can.

15. Love Yourself More

Love yourself more, always easier said than done, right?

Most of us are guilty of taking this thing for granted. We choose to put it on the back burner, thinking that it’s really not that important. I used to believe that too.

But when I was going through the darkest days of my life, learning to love myself was one of the greatest things that I have done.

It allowed me to accept my shortcomings, let go of self doubt and finally start believing in myself and in what I can do to improve my life.

Learning to love myself has given me a sense of empowerment that has helped me navigate through the lowest points of my life.

I know that doing this can be difficult. It is certainly something that we have to choose to do every single day even on our darkest days.

If you don’t know where to begin, take this 30 day self love challenge, to help start your self love journey.

Final Thoughts

I hope that these mental health goals have inspired you and helped gave you an idea of where and how to start creating your very own mental health goals.

The important thing to remember throughout your journey to achieving your mental health goals is to be patient with yourself. Remember that not all days will be the same. You will go through ups and downs and sometimes you may find yourself forgetting your mental health goals and reverting to old habits and mindsets.

The important thing is to give yourself grace. Don’t beat yourself up. You can always reset and keep going.

Congratulate yourself for not giving up and for taking the necessary steps needed to improve the quality of your life.