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10 Ways To Be Happy, On Purpose

Written by Melissa Morrison - 137 Comments
Categories: happiness, self improvement

“He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness”
~Chinese Proverb

I was at a Women’s Leadership Conference about a year ago and had an “ah-ha moment”. We were all introducing ourselves and asked to share a few things to help with the process. One question left me baffled and ultimately changed my life; “What do you do to make yourself happy?”.

At the time I honestly didn’t know. I had a great job, friends, and family. I was independent, young, healthy, and yet I couldn’t figure out what made me happy. I vowed that day that I would be happy on purpose because I was tired of waiting for happiness to happen.

It’s not been an easy road, but it’s been the most fulfilling adventure I’ve ever been on and I feel that I should now share what I’ve learned with others. Read the Rest of This Article »

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How to Change Your Thinking by Using Self-Affirmations

Written by Daniel Wood - 8 Comments
Categories: happiness, self improvement

Your mind is an interesting tool and lives in symbiosis with the sensations from your body. It is proven that your emotions can alter your perceptions and actions, but also that your actions can alter your mood.

All the time these two factors affect each other, that is why smiling when sad makes you happier and it is why you laugh when you find something funny. Read the Rest of This Article »

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Realizing Your Ultimate Aim

Written by Rahul Singh - 28 Comments
Categories: happiness, self improvement

Have you ever wondered why you do all that you do? What is the aim of all the effort? Why get a job, why earn, why build a house, why get a car, why save for the future? Think about it for a moment…

You might say, we do this to ensure security and comfort for the rest of our lives… And why do we need security and comfort?

I think security and comfort are both geared towards one final aim, to ensure lasting and genuine happiness. Happiness is the ultimate aim of everything we do. Again, take a moment to think about this… Read the Rest of This Article »

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8 Steps to True Happiness

Written by Tess Marshall - 29 Comments
Categories: happiness, self improvement

“I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter and to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.” - Louis D. Brandeis

It’s become popular over the last several years, to create vision boards in order to manifest your dreams. Vision boards are collages, made with images cut from magazines. Their purpose is to represent the abundance you want in to create and obtain in your life.

The manifestation guru’s want you to believe that reaching your goals and manifesting your dreams will bring you happiness.

The problem with vision boards is that they are all about ‘me,’ my needs, my wants, and my desires. They don’t stand for community, service to others, or making a difference, things I believe that are required for personal happiness.

If money, possessions, fame, and status, brought happiness then Amy Winehouse would still be singing, Michael Jackson would be still be dancing, and Hollywood would be the happiest place on earth. Read the Rest of This Article »

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Are you really unhappy? Check yourself out here

Written by Naveen Kulkarni - 24 Comments
Categories: depression, happiness, self improvement

 

Some people think that they are always unlucky, stressed out and unhappy.

No matter what the day is, no matter what the season is, when you meet them, they start out with their problems (I will define what’s a problem and an activity, later in this post) and magnify every little point to larger than life extent.

If not their personal problems, they start blaming others, government, politics and you name it they have their negative remarks ready for it. In other words they flood you with negativity and you start wondering that life is so unfair for them.

This article is for them. If you are one of them, then this article is for you. Read the Rest of This Article »

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Living in a Snow Globe: Why It’s Important To Expand Your Mind

Written by Mike Reeves-McMillan - 16 Comments
Categories: happiness, self improvement

Do you think you’d be much happier if you won the lottery?

Do you think you would be much less happy if you were paralyzed in a car accident?

If you answered ‘yes’, science is against you. Read the Rest of This Article »

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Moderation vs. Fearlessness

Written by Blue Andrews - 9 Comments
Categories: happiness, self improvement

“Everything in moderation,” my grandmother tells me. It seems as if the generation that went through the Depression and their offspring have held that belief as a method to happy living, or at least contentment. I have often contemplated that attitude, and while I can begin to feel somewhat comfortable with it to an extent, and understand it’s precipice, I’ve always felt it lacking.

The problem with living moderately is that eventually life becomes mediocre. Read the Rest of This Article »

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10 Surprising Findings on Happiness

Written by Charles Sipe - 12 Comments
Categories: happiness, self improvement

Unlocking the riddle of what makes humans happy is the subject of much research, aimed perhaps at finding a formula or creating a map to help us in this endless and universal quest. The following are 10 recent studies that examine the factors at play in human happiness. Read the Rest of This Article »

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How to Be More Positive – Every Day

Written by Ali Luke - 15 Comments
Categories: happiness, self improvement

Do you have a friend or colleague who complains constantly?

If you do, you’ll know how you feel after a conversation with them: tired, drained, feeling a bit fed up about your own life.

Do you know anyone who’s always cheerful and positive?

If you talk to them, you’ll feel quite differently afterwards: enthused, re-energized, happy.

I’m guessing you can see why positive thinking matters. By being grateful for the good things in life – instead of moaning about the bad ones – you’ll find that your mood is better, and that almost miraculously, more good stuff starts happening to you. Read the Rest of This Article »

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How to Think More Positively Rational about Yourself and Your Future

Written by Josh Shelton - 18 Comments
Categories: happiness, self improvement

Herm Albright once quipped, ““A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.”  Many thousands have praised the importance of possessing a positive attitude, but can one truly be positive about anything without first being positive about oneself? Any truly positive outlook on life always begins first with a truly positive outlook on yourself.  Any truly positive outlook always begins with thinking positively rational. Read the Rest of This Article »

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