Job site CareerBliss.com conducted a survey and found the 10 happiest careers in America. And while money is certainly important to a career, it isn’t the deciding factor in what makes someone happy in their job. It’s more about the people they work with, and how much responsibility they have to make decisions, and so […]
It’s “I Want You To Be Happy Day”
Today is I Want You To Be Happy Day. It’s a day to think of other people’s happiness. A chance to step outside ourselves and wish for the happiness of others. More and more research says we’re often happy when we’re around other happy people. So, increase your happiness power by wishing happiness […]
Breaking A 26-Year Losing Streak
We’ve all had times where it seems nothing goes right. And sometimes those “losing streaks” may go for a few days, a few weeks or even a few months. Usually, though, things turn around and we’re able to move on. Can you imagine having a 26-year losing streak? Can you imagine how it must feel […]
More Happy People
One of the things I try to do here at Your Happiness Power is highlight other sites devoted to happiness. Today, I want to point you to the Secret Society of Happy People. According to its website, the Society’s mission is, “To help people recognize more happiness and encourage them to talk about it.” The […]
Self-Satisfaction And A Sense Of Achievement
“You have to wonder at times what you’re doing out there. Over the years, I’ve given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.” -Steve Prefontaine
Brazil May Add Happiness To Its Constitution
Here in the United States, we’re used to having the “pursuit of happiness” as part of our nation’s founding. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. -US […]
What We’re Seeking
People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we […]
Can You Do Nothing For 2 Minutes?
For many of us (me included), our days are spent with a computer in front of us or close by. Whether we’re working or “relaxing” we often spend hours on the computer – typing, clicking, reading, typing, clicking, reading . . . It becomes a constant state of activity and the only time we actually […]
Twenty Years From Now
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” -Mark Twain
Happiest Countries In The World
What makes a happy country? Or really, what makes the people in that country happy? To try to determine this, London-based Legatum Institute spent five years measuring the “prosperity” index for 90% of the people in the world. Legatum’s 2010 Prosperity Index ranked 110 countries on 89 variables. Forbes has more details in an article […]
