Recognize the Perfect Moment Being happy is dependent upon moments. Right now you are living in a moment – a point in time. The last hour you lived through is gone, the next hour is only a hope and a promise – nothing more. So, you’re living from moment to moment. Recognizing the perfect moments is going to be … Continue reading “Recognize the Perfect Moment”
Happiness in Changing Habits (Power of Habit) Do you think there a connection between habits and happiness? In his bestseller, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life and Business, author Charles Duhigg makes the assertion that habits are not broken. Instead, he notes that habits must be replaced. For those of you that follow ancient teachers like … Continue reading “Happiness in Changing Habits (Power of Habit)”
The Soundtrack of Your Life – The Impact of Music on Your Happiness Have you ever watched a movie without the sound – only reading the closed captioning? It’s a totally different experience. Without the soundtrack to tell you when something ominous is about to take place, the uplifting anthem to support a victorious moment, or the bouncing road trip tune of the buddy comedy, the movie has … Continue reading “The Soundtrack of Your Life – The Impact of Music on Your Happiness”
Know the Tradeoffs and Be Happier In his book*, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Greg McKeown talks about the importance of understanding what we are giving up – the tradeoffs – in our choices. Know the tradeoffs and be happier. Here’s why we are talking about it today. We can’t be happy with the choices we make if we don’t … Continue reading “Know the Tradeoffs and Be Happier”
The Right Daily Routines for Happiness (That Could Change Your Life) Increase your productivity! – Be healthier! – Be more efficient! That’s what they say, right? It’s all true…and it’s all baloney. Why should you have a daily routine? Because you need to figure out how to wrap the more challenging aspects of life with actions, activities, and structure that is emotionally uplifting and meaningful for … Continue reading “The Right Daily Routines for Happiness (That Could Change Your Life)”
Revealed: Connection Between Happiness and Silence “How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.” Virginia Woolf – The Waves … Continue reading “Revealed: Connection Between Happiness and Silence”
Trust No One – (If You Want to Grow Your Unhappiness) “The government is out to get us.” — “The police are all incompetent and corrupt.” — “My parents don’t want what’s best for me.” — “Doctors only want to make more money by shilling for the drug companies.” Sound familiar? Distrust is an easy trap to fall into. Why? Because CNN, CBC, Fox, and other … Continue reading “Trust No One – (If You Want to Grow Your Unhappiness)”
What the Crowd is Doing to Your Happiness Your crowd. My crowd. Their crowd. Let’s talk about what the crowd is doing to your happiness. It doesn’t matter what crowd…they’re all the same. Every crowd thinks that they are right and everyone else is wrong. Every crowd has plans to convince everyone else to think the way they do. Every crowd has established … Continue reading “What the Crowd is Doing to Your Happiness”
How to Protect Your Happiness and Banish the Trolls There was a time when civilized people acted – and spoke – in a civilized manner. There were rules of decency that kept people from publicly criticizing others.Then came the anonymity of the internet and the license that gave for the basest of people to engage in the lowest form of speech – angry criticism.No … Continue reading “How to Protect Your Happiness and Banish the Trolls”