Do good this year; starting with your own happiness
Check out yet another interesting happiness article from my friend in happiness, Lionel Ketchian (www.happinessclub.com)...
15 January, 2010
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25 ways to improve your health and happiness in 2010
The New Year is upon us, and for many people, it includes a New Year's resolution for achieving improved health and happiness in 2010. Here are twenty-five health-enhancing ideas to help you accomplish that goal. #1 - Replace sodas or soft drinks with tea or water.#2...
13 January, 2010
6 happiness lessons from…the circus
While on holiday recently, attending and speaking at www.woodfordfolkfestival.com, I watched, among many other great acts, a circus show (a few times, actually!). I love the circus, for so many reasons, and I also think it makes for a great metaphor for living a life...
13 January, 2010
Have a happy new year by avoiding a fixation on happiness!
Check out this interesting article from The Huffington Post Hurray, it's a new year and a new decade! At least symbolically this change is a great relief, for 2009 was a year that seems to have left its mark on many people still trying to come...
12 January, 2010
50 steps to simple happiness
With apologies to Jay-Z, the current Empire State of Mind might not be something to brag about_ã”at least according to the recent study ranking New York as the least-happy state in the nation. In the nation! Which seems, to us, rather unbelievable. Yes, nearly half...
11 January, 2010
Simple tips for more happiness this year
It's still early days in 2010 and we're assuming many of you are still on leave and enjoying a good break. If you are, that's fantastic, we hope you're full of happiness and enthusiasm for whatever it is you're doing. We'll be gearing up soon...
11 January, 2010
The generosity of happiness
When it comes to happiness, women have a common resistance: Happiness is selfish, they say. But our refusal to be happy doesn't make us compassionate. Our refusal to be happy just makes us mean. My maternal grandmother was one of those people who made a conscious...
10 January, 2010
Happiness through giving
The old adage "'Tis better to give than to receive" now has science to back it up. Indeed, from giving gratitude to giving to those in need (whether that be your time or money), studies show that many people report better health and better states...
09 January, 2010
Happiness, Passion and Positive Psychology
Positive psychology is concerned with what makes like worth living, and since its beginning, positive psychologists have done a good job of moving under their umbrella more and more relevant concepts. Passion is one of the recent notions claimed by positive psychology, and my purpose...
08 January, 2010
The National Benefits of Happiness
Over the last decade, it has become common to complain that governments, particularly in the west, have been too narrowly focused on the pursuit of rising GDP at the expense of other social goods. People have looked wistfully to Bhutan, where, since 1972, official government...
07 January, 2010