According to Plan Your Way to Less Stress, More Happiness in Time you can reduce your stress through planning. And as we’ve learned before, less stress can help create more happiness. A survey of 3,000 people around the world found that 25% of our happiness comes from how well we manage stress. The article also […]
Suffering From Time Famine?
“There’s just not enough time to get everything done.” Do you find yourself saying those words a lot? I do. I can’t count how many times during a week when I have those thoughts. Too much to do and not enough time. I’ve struggled with time management for years. I’ve tried a variety of different […]
Twitter World Happiness Map
Alexander Davies is a PhD student at Cambridge University. One of the projects he’s working on is a system to determine happiness around the world based on people’s Twitter feeds. At this point, Germany seems to be the happiest country in the world. Twitter World Happiness Map To your happiness!
Today’s Headline: A Great Day Was Had By All
Recently, my friend Judy McNutt posted the headline above as her status on Facebook. It got me thinking about how great it would be to see that headline in the news someday. With all the things going on in the world, and the real headlines we see every day, it’s hard to imagine a day […]
Avoid Future Regret
There was a commercial that was running recently pitching “non-monetary value” coins. The coins were some kind of commemorative items – frankly I really don’t remember much about the coins. A line in that commercial, though, caught my ear. In trying to get viewers to act quickly, the voiceover said, “Avoid future regret.” That line […]
Replace Your Negative Thinking
I read the other day that on average we have 60,000 thoughts a day, most of which are negative. I’m not sure how that figure of 60,000 was reached, but even if we say we have only a quarter of that number it’s still 15,000 thoughts a day, which is still a lot. And if […]
Pay Attention To The Signs
Since the beginning of this year, I’ve been trying to push my life in a certain direction. The details of that aren’t important. But I’ve expended a lot of energy trying to make something happen that just isn’t happening. Along the way, I’ve gotten some signs that the direction I was trying to go wasn’t […]
Happiness Overrated?
A piece in the Wall Street Journal – Is Happiness Overrated? – cites a University of Wisconsin study that the “relentless pursuit of happiness may be doing us more harm than good.” The researchers say that focusing too much on feeling happy can actually reduce happiness. I can’t disagree with that. Happiness can be elusive. […]
Happiness Ranking For US States
There have been a number of articles over the last couple of days about the happiest states in the US with Hawaii coming in at number one. If you want to see the actual data, Gallup has a nice interactive view of the Gallup-Healthways data for 2010, 2009, and 2008: Gallup – State of the […]
Happy People Live Longer
According to a review of more than 160 studies, there is compelling evidence that happy people tend to live longer and have better health than those who aren’t happy. According to University of Illinois professor emeritus of psychology Ed Diener, the author of the review, “We reviewed eight different types of studies, and the general […]
