October 2018

Happiness requires prioritising. Happiness requires taking care of your physical health and wellbeing. Happiness is built on optimism and hope; good quality relationships and fun with friends. But the chances are you'll do none of these things if you don't think you matter. Which is why self-care and...

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” So said Ralph Waldo Emerson. And for every minute you get upset in other ways, you lose another 60 seconds of happiness. No one will be happy EVERY minute of EVERY day; it's quite normal and...

Happiness is many things. Happiness is fun; happiness is health; happiness is spending time with family and friends. But happiness is also living a life of meaning and purpose; happiness is also spending as much time as possible pursuing our passions. But what if you don't know your...

Too many of us undermine our own happiness and success. Too many of us speak to ourselves in ways that eats away at health and happiness. Self-sabotage will cruel your happiness; unless you recognise and stop it ASAP...

It's hard (if not impossible) to be happy if you don't like yourself. Happiness won't come to those who engage in self-loathing; and who, then, can't find the motivation to do what they need to do for self-care. It's almost stating the obvious, or it should be...

It's a myth that happiness is always looking on the bright side. Happiness is seeing what's best in the world; but happiness is also facing up to the cold, hard realities. Happiness, therefore, requires acknowledging truths like these...

via ScienceNews by Melissa de Witte While “find your passion” is well-intended advice, it might not be good advice. In fact, the adage so commonly advised by graduation speakers might undermine how interests actually develop, according to Stanford researchers in an upcoming paper for Psychological Science. In a series of laboratory...