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After quite a few years of dark depression, I'm feeling happier and more optimistic now than I have for a long time. And you can too! I know it's not easy, but it is possible. If I can do it, you can too. So hang in there, keep...

28 January, 2025

25 years ago I left what was my dream job, to start what became my new dream job. 5 years after that, I changed to create another dream position. And now I'm doing something else entirely, which is my new dream. Change and evolution are healthy. Try not...

22 January, 2025

Sometimes going by the name of "The Serenity Prayer", the following simple but incredibly powerful philosophy has helped me time and time again: change what you can change (do what you can do) accept what you can't change be wise enough to know the difference Don't...

10 January, 2025

via Science of Us by Cari Romm If you’re trying to kick a bad habit — or pick up a good one — conventional wisdom suggests that the incremental approach is the way to go. Gradually cutting down on junky snacks is easier than going cold...

19 May, 2016

via Elephant Journal by Soizic June Hagègeon I’m aware this is an unusual opinion, but I have little interest in writing about things everybody agrees on anyway. Last May, in the midst of a break-up, months of a failed job search and having to move from one country...

01 March, 2016

For more than a decade now, here at The Happiness Institute we've been saying that achieving happiness requires little more than practising a few simple disciplines each and every day.  You see, those small habits build up in to big results...

27 September, 2015

by Tree Franklin via the Huffington Post I went to a corporate cocktail party a few nights ago, and being the introvert that I am and deathly allergic to small talk, I decided to skip it and get right down to business. My business, not theirs....

09 August, 2015