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via the Guardian by Elle Hunt The last time I felt joy was at an event that would be many people’s vision of hell: a drunken Taylor Swift club-night singalong in the early hours of the morning a few weekends ago. I certainly experience joy, either as peaks of...

via Psychology Today by Lawrence R Samuel Even historians of happiness like myself freely admit that we still know relatively little about the subject, especially regarding how to generate more of it in our everyday lives.  Some of the most brilliant minds since antiquity have...

via Forbes by Jack Kelly We always hear people lecture us—usually our bosses and parents—that “time is money”. Time is an incredibly valuable finite resource. While you can get more money, we can’t create more time.   Going into the new year and decade, it's important to...

via Psychology Today by Noam Shpancer New Year’s resolutions are notoriously useless. Promises of change made to oneself on New Year’s Eve quickly and routinely dissolve into dithering, failure, and regret. There are multiple reasons for this pattern of failure. But an important meta-reason is probably this: Real personal...

via Inc.com by Peter Economy The future is chock full of possibilities and opportunities, new chances and new journeys. With 2020 and the new decade fast approaching, many of us use this time at the end of the year to think about where we are now, and...

Looking to make the New Year a year of happiness and success and resilience? Hoping 2020 has even more happiness and joy; achievement and accomplishment? If so, the good news is that it's possible; you can learn what works from those who're already happy and...

via Forbes by Michelle Braden I remember a story my Dad used to tell. It goes like this: An older gentleman and his granddaughter were sitting on a bench outside the city market, enjoying a soda and the sunshine, when a stranger pulled up. The stranger asked...