Happy Tips

Drew Barrymore believes her happiness makes her beautiful. The actress, who graces the front cover of People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful issue, insists her fun-loving attitude to life is what makes her "pretty." Drew, who appears in the annual issue for the fourth time, revealed, "I just...

27 April, 2007

I'm often talking to people about happiness (almost always, in fact) and I'm often asked where people can find happiness. Although the answer will differ for different individuals there's no doubt where you won't find happiness! You definitely won't find happiness in shops, or...

27 April, 2007

The contrasting views of Mrs Macbeth and the vaudeville hoofer capture the paradox driving the explosion of studies from economists that show little connection between wealth and happiness. In his book Happiness, Richard Layard from the London School of Economics explains the paradox of our...

26 April, 2007

Are you a mother (or, for that matter, a father) and searching for happiness? Psychologists are now saying that the joy of motherhood is getting challenged by the stress of motherhood. There is an increasing amount of evidence to suggest that many women are...

26 April, 2007

This will come as no surprise to those of you who are familiar with my writings and philosophy of happiness but in the interests of bringing you as many happiness stories as possible, from as many happiness sources as possible, the following story reinforces what...

26 April, 2007

Once relegated to the self-help bookshelf, the subject of happiness is becoming a respectable theme for scientific research and business thinking. The rise of positive psychology and the discovery of happiness circuits in the brain have gone hand in hand with a growing realisation that...

24 April, 2007

Part of happiness involves accepting and then managing negative emotions such as 'stress". So in the interests of helping you achieve happiness by getting on top of stress, I thought you might like to review the following article (accessed by clicking on the link...

23 April, 2007

The question of what happiness really means and how it can be achieved has been a topic of deep human thought since Greek philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato began to discuss the true meaning of "eudaimonia," the Greek word for happiness. They said the experience...

23 April, 2007