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Uncover True Joy
What is ‘Joy’? Is ‘Joy’ attainable?Webster’s defines ‘joy’ as “the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires.Read more…Focus On The Joy
We hear a lot about performance, and efficiency, and control. What if, instead, I said I would like you to take this opportunity to think about how many things in your daily life that you do “just for the joy of it”?What I’m talking about here is value-based happiness (as opposed to temporary happiness).Read more…Bring Happiness Into Your Life; Smile and Laugh Out Loud
Smile more and laugh for crying out loud for God’s sake. Are looking to bring more happiness into your life? Have you considered smiling more or just laughing out loud, it will seriously help you in your goal to enjoy more happiness in your life?Read more…Follow the Little Leaders - Be Childlike this Summer
“I meant to do my work today – But a brown bird sang in the apple tree. And a butterfly flitted across the field, and all the leaves were calling me.” --Richard le GallienneRemember that scene in “Big” when Tom Hanks -- the man who woke up one day to find that he was trapped in a boy’s body -- hops on his bike and awkwardly rides it down the street?Read more…Effectively Dealing With Your Midlife Crisis: 5 Reasons To Create Your Midlife Breakthrough
Midlife is a time where it is natural to take a hard look at your life. This assessment often leads to feelings of discontentment, ineffectiveness, and confusion. A crisis can arise from these negative feelings.Read more…Finding Joy in the Midst of Difficulty
Have you ever had one of those days? Well, for me, it’s been weeks, and weeks, and weeks!To say the least, the past eight months have been challenging.Read more…The Lure of Low Self-Esteem
Rachel has a problem. For 3 ? years, she has been dating a man who indulges in drugs and alcohol regularly and who is often unfaithful to their relationship.Read more…Your Privacy & The Disappearing Art of Invisibility
Famous movie stars and other luminaries have made an interesting journey, when you think about it.They’ve worked their you-know-what’s off to go from obscurity to universal recognizability, and then, once they have reached such visibility, they try to hide themselves away again behind dark sunglasses, tinted limousines, high gates, and live the most obscure lives possible.Wanting to fall off the grid, to be untraceable, unrecognized is not only a desire of the rich and famous, but of others like so many Boulder, Colorado and Berkeley, California hippies that are keeping their VW micro-buses on life support in out of the way backyards and garages that no one will ever find on a map.Read more…Values – Freedom, Security, Achievement - What are Yours?
We all have our core values – the things that are really important to us like peace, financial security, and achievement, for instance. How you prioritise them can change though and you can often find that one suddenly becomes very important, especially if it’s not being met.A good example of this was when I was on holiday with my family at an activity hotel in Devon.Read more…There is No Place Like Now
Most people in our culture today are so busy running around trying to arrange their lives to be somewhere else. We all want to be somewhere else geographically or financially or in our relationships. We want to be anywhere but here as we've been led to believe that if only we can be somewhere else then our lives would work.Read more…Hurricanes and Happiness
Hurricanes can be very damaging to the human psyche especially for those who have lost everything in a major category storm. We saw many people along the Gulf Coast of the United States of America who had lost everything due to the storm surge and the high winds. When stuff like this happens it can take its toll and cause depression and this can have a severe impact on the human immune system.Read more…What is Happiness?
Happiness is an emotion, a particular state of mind. It is not possible to define happiness in definite terms as it is a subjective feeling. Everyone has different views on happiness.Read more…Gain Enthusiasm: Does The Path You're On Capture Your Heart?
Passion and Potential:One of the biggest differences in people is their level of enthusiasm. Your enthusiasm reflects your reserves, your unexploited resources and perhaps your future. You will never rise to great heights without joy and enthusiasm.Read more…Yes, Virginia, There Is a Secret for Happiness
Do I believe there is a secret to happiness? I'll bet you expect me to say "NO, there is just no simple secret." While it is true that there are many factors that affect our happiness, I believe there is one secret that determines whether those factors will work for you, and that is the secret to happiness.Read more…Visualization - A Secret Tool to Manifest and Reincarnate A New You & A New Life!
Visualization is a masterful gift we have been given that is a secret tool to manifest our wishes and desires while creating a feeling of happines in the process. Our ‘subconscious’ mind thinks in pictures and feeling patterns. In order for us to change we need to not only see or think about what it is we want to experience but to move into the feeling of having it already fulfilled.Read more…Self Improvement Ideas: The Search For Inner Peace
I have no doubt that there are many people out there who are searching for ways of improving their overall quality of life. We have no divine right to be happy of course but on the other hand we should not just sit back and accept second best. I am the type of person who basically just wants to be happy, I have no desire to become mega rich, but what I am looking for, and at the moment have achieved, is an inner peace.Read more…Two Weeks
Take a deep breath, close your eyes and imagine how you'd respond to the following scenario:You’ve been told that you have only two weeks left to live. Now, after the shock wears off, what would you do next? How different would the next two weeks be compared to the way you’ve been living thus far?Read more…We Just Need To Have FUN!
Do you have fun everyday? The kind of fun that Cyndi Lauper knew that girls wanted to have, although she chose to ignore the poor guys! The fun that makes you run out on a sunny day and play in the park, with or without children?Read more…The Prize Isn't Always in the Bottom of a Box
How many of you can remember when you were a kid and looked for that proverbial prize in the box of cereal? I can remember when I was about 8 years old, I asked my mom to buy me a certain cereal because it sponsored Flash Gordon. It’s possible that many of you younger readers don’t have a clue who Flash Gordon was.Read more…In India They Simply "Get It"
I recently returned from a 3 week vacation to the North of India. I travelled without my wife and three daughters so as to get the most access to a number of life issues. I went with no plan or expectation at all.Read more…
Most Recent Articles in Happiness category
- 10 Habits of Highly Effective Baby Boomers - By: Cynthia Barnett
Learn how to make the rest of your life the best of your life with these critical tips from a leading retirement lifestyle expert. With these tips, you can enjoy a second phase of life (after retirement) that will be fulfilling, happy and exciting. - Nine Tips for Living a Harmonious Life in Retirement - By: Cynthia Barnett
Harmonious living in retirement brings peace a sense of balance in one's life and the ability to keep priorities in place. Noted retirement lifestyle expert offers nine tips on how to create and enjoy a harmonious lifestyle in retirement and before. - Investing In Your Dreams: The Key to Perfect Freedom - By: Alexander Green
And, ordinarily, that's exactly what it takes to do what you really love doing - investing in your dreams, or what matters most. - Your Imaginary Guru - By: Seth Manne
Learn some new and exciting ways to use your imagination. Did you know you can "imagine" answers to some of your deepest questions and receive amazingly accurate answers. - Emotions and Energetic Healing - By: Michael Mohoric
Emotions play a crucial role in good health. Chinese Medicine teaches that repressing emotions can cause many health problems. Distant Qigong energy healing can help to harmonize and balance the emotions, mind and body. - The 7 Steps That Will Attract The Love, Happiness And Success You Want - By: Nancy Nichols
The biggest problem that single women have in finding, dating and attracting their Dream Man is that they repeatedly sabotage their dating and relationship opportunities with their negative attitudes, bad dating behavior, or they choose men who are incapable of contributing to a meaningful relationship. - Should you stay or should you go? Will changing jobs really make you happy? - By: Jim Manton
Feeling unsettled at work? Do you wonder how much longer you can keep going to an unfulfilling and life draining job? Find out how to know if you should stay or you should go. - Alternative Notions of Life, a Different Path (7): Happiness - Are you looking in the right place? - By: Carl "J.C." Pantejo
It's 3:00 AM. True to form, since I went to bed last night too early, here I am awake at zero-dark, thirty. I'm alone. For the first time (in a long time), I don't have a wife, live-in partner, or a date sleeping next to me. - Follow Your Heart - By: Hale Dwoskin
There is a universal intelligence or knowingness in each and every one of us. When you are open to this intelligence of the heart, it guides you in the true direction to do what is best for you and those around you. - Discover the Joy of Living in the Now in Retirement - By: Cynthia Barnett
Learning to live in the now can bring great peace and happiness during retirement. Celebrated retirement expert offers ten tips on how you can learn to live in the now and find greater joy in retirement.