via the Ladder by Travis Bradberry Despite West Point Military Academy’s rigorous selection process, one in five students drop out by graduation day. A sizeable number leave the summer before freshman year, when cadets go through a rigorous program called “Beast.” Beast consists of extreme physical,...
via Good The 2018 World Happiness Report again ranks Denmark among the top three happiest of 155 countries surveyed – a distinction the country has earned for seven consecutive years. The U.S., on the other hand, ranked 18th, a four-spot drop from the previous year’s report. Denmark’s place among the...
Worry and anxiety can chip away at our happiness. Worry and anxiety can take our focus away from what's going well, to what's not going well. Anxiety is normal to a point, but for deep and lasting happiness one needs to manage stress as best as possible. And...
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If "other people matter" is the secret to happiness; then making and keeping good friends is the strategy we all need to follow. Happiness is very much about the quality (and, to some extent, the quantity) or our relationships. And this research, therefore, is a must read...
via the Ladder by Andrew Ferebee What I love about this question is that it doesn’t separate happiness from success. As you alluded to in your question, you cannot have success without first having happiness. And happiness oftentimes leads to greater societal success. After grinding my life away...
via Inc.com by Marcel Schwantes Anger is one powerful human emotion. It is also a very normal human emotion that needs to be expressed in a healthy way. But there's a place and time for appropriate anger, and we all have to learn how to manage it before it...
Happiness will always be hard if ...
via the SMH by Jessica Irvine It has been said that journalists are a miserable bunch. It’s true that dedicating one’s life to unearthing and cataloguing the worst examples of corruption and ineptitude by business persons and politicians does rather take a toll on the soul. Additionally, journalists...
Happiness isn't just about enjoying the good times. Happiness IS about enjoying the good times; but it's also about getting through the tough times. Happiness is, then, about being grateful AND tough (and so much more)...