6 Quick Tips to Boost Your Mood

My mood booster is definitely music. Depending how I feel on that specific day, the type of music I listen to can vary. Music is the one art that allows me to sing and dance, and music enhances my ability to be more creative.

—Jessica Bedard, shoe designer

If I need to clear my head, I go for a run or play basketball. I come back totally refreshed.

—Jay Hoag, founding general partner of TCV

I love to be in the open air and garden. I inherited this passion from my father. When I was a young man, I was not interested in it. Now that I am older, I think other things are more important in life. As time passes, I see more and more of my father in myself. He was a man of production, always doing things with his hands.

—Diego Rossetti, president, Fratelli Rossetti

Looking at pictures of my baby niece is my No. 1 mood booster. She has so much attitude for a nonverbal human, and her photos always make me laugh. When I’m upset after confrontational conversations, her pictures immediately lift my spirits.

—Maci Peterson, co-founder, CEO, On Second Thought

When I want to boost or activate, I turn on a playlist that I’ve created specifically for this reason. It encompasses all genres and decades of songs that have ever made me feel something. An activation ritual like a customized playlist of only your mood boosters allows you to have a reset button on you at all times in our world of smartphones.

—Rachel Wenman, co-founder, vice president, Urban Seed Inc.

Heading to the kitchen and cooking something amazing with whatever is available at hand. It is a relaxing, creative thing to do, and it feels good to get compliments when people love the food!

—Nitin Chhoda, CEO, Total Activation

Related: 9 Mood-Boosting Ways to Inject Positivity in Your Life

This article originally appeared in the October 2017 issue of SUCCESS magazine.