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via the Huffington Post by Laura Berger In True Grit, Grace, and Gratitude, I used the term "happy hour" as a constructive and necessary analogy, but I do have a good bit of aversion toward the expression. Why does an hour we reserve to be happy...

07 March, 2016

via Barking up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker We all wanna be happier, right? Thing is, depression is at epic levels. More people are unhappy and they’re getting miserable at an even younger age. In the United States, rates of depression are ten times higher today than...

04 March, 2016

via Limitless  Achieving the state of happiness is not always easy. There are days when everything seems to be going in the wrong direction and no matter how hard you try, you just can’t seem to smile. These are the days when you desperately wait for...

03 March, 2016

via the Huffington Post by Kate Snowise I believe in kindness. The Dalai Lama is quoted as saying: My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. That's the type of religion I subscribe to. I define kindness as treating others with the same level of respect and regard I...

02 March, 2016

via Business Insider As Annie Dillard writes in her book "The Writing Life," "how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." There's no short-cut to a happy life, but there are simple things we can do to help us get there. "We have...

01 March, 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

via the Huffington Post Karl Pillemer, a Ph.D. gerontologist at Cornell University, has spent the last several years interviewing hundreds of older Americans to systematically collect their practical wisdom. His first book, 30 Lessons for Living, synthesized advice from over 1,000 elders on topics like happiness, work,...

29 February, 2016

via Inc.com by Jessica Stillman Your negative, moaning, complaining co-workers aren't just annoying; they're also contagious. When Harvard researchers combed through piles of data from the Framingham Heart Study, a massive undertaking the collected information on thousands of people over decades, they found that it's not just...

29 February, 2016