Just doing things that are joyful.
For me, I love to cook and come up with new recipes, so doing that kind of gets my mind off my worries, at least while I’m doing that. It’s really nice too, if you can cook for someone who you know is going to love what you make, like a few weeks ago, I made some home made butternut squash soup and took a big container of it to my neighbor across the stree. She and her hubby are trying to have a baby, and he had to go out of town for work for 2 weeks. I know she was feeling kind of sad and lonely. She was so thrilled when I showed up at her door with that soup.
Another thing that is really great for me is when my brother calls me up and says something like this, “Hey I was thinking of driving up to such and such town, they’ve got this really neat piece of public art and a great old downtown area with a bunch of historic houses. Wanna go with me? I also heard there was this really great vegetarian restaurant there, maybe we could have lunch there and you can tell me what we should eat?” So we do a day trip and get away from our troubles for awhile.
And of course, any time that I get to go camping or hiking in the mountains is a good day for me. I love to take photographs, especially landscape photos, so I bring my camera and just find stuff to photograph, whether it be trees, flowers, tiny mushrooms growing under ferns, birds and intersting bark patterns on trees. Then I get to relive the whole experience after I get home and sort through the photos. I’m kind of a sorter by nature, so organizing photo disks for family and friends is very enjoyable for me. And often I will write long winded descriptions of my trip (kind of like this answer) so that my relatives can have a second hand experience. They seem to like that, at least I think they do. LOL.