Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is […]
Tips For Happiness
From Forbes magazine: Ten Ways To Be Happier Now To your happiness!
Self-Talk
What kind of thoughts go through your head on a regular basis? As today’s quotation from the Buddha says, “What we think, we become.” If your self-talk — the thoughts that run through your mind each day — are negative, you’ll feel bad about yourself and your life. You won’t feel happy. You need to […]
What Are You Thinking?
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become. –Buddha
Life Isn’t Fair
“It’s not fair!” If you have kids, I’ll bet you’ve heard this from them more than once. You may have even said it, or felt that way yourself at times. And you know what? Your kids are right. You’re right. Rule #1: Life isn’t fair. Rule #2: See Rule #1 When we come into this […]
Find Other Happy People
A 20-year study published in the British Medical Journal shows that being connected to other happy people can increase your happiness: Conclusions: People’s happiness depends on the happiness of others with whom they are connected. This provides further justification for seeing happiness, like health, as a collective phenomenon. Dynamic spread of happiness in a large […]
Wins Out of Losses
To find happiness, turn losses into wins is an excerpt from Olympic Gold Medal winner Scott Hamilton’s book The Great Eight: How to Be Happy (Even When You Have Every Reason to be Miserable). Take some time to read this excerpt. To your happiness!
Clean it Up
One way to lighten up your life is to lighten up the things in your home. Often we acquire things without thinking about why we’re buying them. Before long, we’ve got so much stuff that all the things overwhelm us. Some of us have so much stuff that we need to rent a self-storage unit […]
89 Seconds of Happiness
Happiness
Plenty of Happiness
Happiness and pleasure mean different things to different people. In the UK’s Daily Mail, Paul Martin, author of Sex, Drugs And Chocolate: The Science Of Pleasure, says we should enjoy ourselves because it’s what we were meant to do. Martin writes: “Put at its simplest, pleasure is the biological currency which evolved to guide our […]
