I love this article because as the title suggests, it's important to focus on cultivating happiness at all times.
We all have good days and good weeks, when almost everything seems to go right; and during those times happiness comes pretty easily.
And it's great.
But we also...
In his book 30 Lessons For Living, Karl Pillemer interviewed over 1,000 elderly Americans in their 80s and 90s and asked for their advice on, among other things, how to live the happiest life possible. Here's the collective advice as it pertains to living the...
I'm always reluctant to say there's a "secret" to happiness. There's not.
And I'm also always reluctant to highlight ONE THING that will work for everyone when it comes to happiness and/or living a good life.
But this one technique, described by Chris Grosso via the Elephant...
By Gretchen Reynolds from the NY Times
Dark moods are bad for your health. Scientists have known for decades that a wide variety of unpleasant emotions, like shame, depression and anxiety, are linked to greater rates of ills like heart disease, inflammation, cancer and premature death....
NB: this was obviously published a week or so ago for International Happiness Day but the articles referred to are still very much relevant and useful...
Over the last few years you've probably seen, and maybe even tried all sorts of different types of happiness challenges.
There are happiness challenges that focus on gratitude; on health and wellbeing, on not complaining...
We all feel down at times; we can all pick ourselves up at times!
We all have days when we feel defeated and discouraged; and it's on those days we need to work harder for our happiness and mental health.
The good news is that if we...
