You want to be happy. I want to be happy. Everyone wants to be happy. “Happiness”, according to Aristotle, “is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” How is it, then, that the rates of depression in the U.S. are ten times higher [...]
Thursday, November 8, 2007
You’d hafta be silly or brave to write a post on happiness.
So silly me is gonna give it a crack.
I had no plans for this piece (like I plan my writing!)… it came out of a conversation I had yesterday.
It asked to be written.
It’s fair to assume that we’re all different and [...]
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Affirmations – Your Passport to Happiness by Anne Marie Evers is a powerful book that changes lives by focusing on the affirming power of words and images for health, wealth and happiness.
By using simple exercises and specific affirmations, Evers shows readers how to generate money, attract the ideal partner, lose weight, find the perfect career, [...]
Saturday, October 27, 2007
There is a line in the American Constitution that I think every person in the country is familiar with and it goes:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of [...]
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Happiness requires a single change of focus. From wanting to control everything and everybody around you to focusing on how you think and feel. To want to control the world around you is selfish and self-centered. To become aware that you can only control yourself is self-development.
Your feelings are a response to how you choose [...]
The Russian writer Leo Tolstoy on his morning walk once observed a Caucasian farmer ploughing his land and singing out loud, stopping to ask him curiously. “Fellow countryman he said, if you knew for certainty that you will die this evening what would you do for the rest of the day? Ah…I will continue [...]
Saturday, September 22, 2007
An Example of Consciously Staying Upbeat Through Adversity
Wouldn’t you know it? While I had just written a list of 10 ways to stay upbeat and happy (Top Ten Tips To Help You in Your Pursuit of Happiness) when I had a challenge of my own.
It all started with a plastic soda bottle that [...]
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Is our choice to become happy and is also our choice to look at things in the way we choose to. However, which is the way that you would choose? I recommend the “happiness” way!
In my marketing classes, I learn something about consumers’ behaviors and there are many factors affecting consumers’ behaviors. One of them [...]
Monday, September 17, 2007
Sometimes you feel bad from the moment you wake up. You may refer to this feeling as “getting up on the wrong side of the bed”. But what does it really mean and how can if affect your entire life in a negative way? You can use your feelings to move to a place of [...]
Sunday, September 16, 2007
We hear about people who are passionate about something they enjoy doing. They can spend hours doing whatever it is and feel joyous the whole time. But what does it really mean to live your life with passion? How is a passionate life different than the life you most likely are living presently?
Living with passion [...]