7 Ways to Be Happier At Work – Today
Do you enjoy your work?
Maybe you do – you have a job which you love, and which you find interesting and fulfilling.
Or maybe you don’t – you hate your job but you have to stick with it because you need the money.
Chances are you fall somewhere in the middle: you have good days and bad days, and you could definitely be happier than you currently are.
So, here are seven little ways to be happier at work, right now. Read the Rest of This Article »
5 Life Changing Ideas from Happiness Research
What is a greater priority in your life: happiness or success?
While it is possible to achieve both, we often sacrifice one for the other when making major life decisions such as what career to pursue, whether to move to the suburbs to afford a bigger house, or whether to attend a family event if it means getting less work done.
The science of happiness, also known as positive psychology, basically studies human behavior and positive emotions with the aim of determining what factors can result in an increased level of happiness. The conclusions from this research can provide interesting insights into how we can maximize our happiness. Read the Rest of This Article »
Everything You Need To Know About Happiness
“Happiness” courtesy of Zhong Bioa
The truth about affirmations:
With all of these books around touting the benefits of affirmations, Psychologists became curious to know whether they actually worked.
They brought together many different subjects, having various degrees of self confidence and told them to repeat positive statements about their self confidence such as “I am confident” and “I am worthy”
What was found is that confident people felt more confident after the experiment while those who lacked confidence felt even worse.
The explanation is simple, when you repeat a statement that matches your inner belief system your subconscious mind will be reminded of the statement and will let you feel good if it was a positive one, on the other hand if you tried to force your subconscious mind to believe in something against its belief system it will sense the deception and so make you feel guilty.
In short, affirmations can never make you happy if you weren’t already happy nor can they make you more confident if you weren’t already feeling confident. Read the Rest of This Article »
The 3 R’s To Total Happiness
You wake up in the morning and determine to be happy, but your happiness can be short- lived because of other factors not within your control and they are sending negative signals to disturb your peace of mind. To be totally happy you have to handle the three components of happiness well. The three components are resolution, reaction and relation. Let’s take a look at each and every one in detail.
RESOLUTION
This is at a personal level. Things are within your control. You make up your mind either to attract or repel happiness. Check the following: Read the Rest of This Article »
Letting Go To Succeed
Everyday I take a break from my work when I get to the point of being tired of what I am doing, and I usually go play basketball. The breaks that I enjoy the most are when I am alone on the court. Uninterrupted. I shoot, shot after shot. I enjoy trying to perfect my shot. I have an inner desire to become gifted. I have come to the point where I know what I need to do to consistently make shots, but I just don’t consistently do what I need to do.
The rim lets me know how I am doing. I love having it’s instant feed back. The loud clang of the rim challenges me to become better, and the soft swish of the net rewards me.
But today, I realized that the rim’s instant feed back is unnecessary. Read the Rest of This Article »
5 Interesting Ways to Improve Your Health and Happiness
When you think of improving your health and happiness, what do you think about? Is it diet? Is it money? Or is it even having that dream house with a nice car? We all have different dreams, but the thing that connects us all is the fact that we believe these dreams will make us happy.
Happiness is something that has been studied for a long time. Itís something that we cannot fully grasp. We may see happy people walking past us, but we never know why theyíre so happy and what their secret is.
As the Buddhists say ìthe secret of happiness lies in the mindís release of worldly tiesî, but do we really need to do that? Iíve gathered five simple ways you can improve your health and happiness without giving up that which makes our lives interesting. Read the Rest of This Article »
Is It Better To Single-Task or Multi-Task?
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There are no shortage of ‘experts’ that claim to know the secret of maximum productivity. At first someone will swear that the only way to really get things done is to multi-task: more done, less time. Then immediately someone will counter that it’s far simpler, more effective and rewarding and ultimately more ‘zen’ to do one task at a time: single-tasking. Read the Rest of This Article »
Good And Bad Emotions: Finding The Perfect Mix
Some people appear to be hopped up on happy pills, being oblivious to any bad events going on around them. Others are all too quick to express their disgust at anything that doesn’t go exactly their way.
Could it be that the healthiest emotional mix is somewhere between the extremes? Say, four parts good feelings to one part bad feelings, shaken not stirred, and served with a twist of lime? Read the Rest of This Article »
6 Sure-Fire Ways To Stop Feeling Jealous
Photo Credit: Niklas
Often we see things that others have and wish that we had the same. Or sometimes, if we see somebody who is very happy, we feel a lack of happiness in our own life and feel jealous of the other person. Jealousy is a very unhealthy, counterproductive feeling that directly results in making us feel discontent and unsatisfied.
As jealousy is an emotional response and almost seems involuntary it feels like it is something that cannot be fought. The biggest problem of a jealous person is that we makes a lot of assumptions and don’t see the clear picture. In order to stop feeling jealous, we need to make an effort to think clearly and rationally. The following are some tips that can help in thinking straight and tempering jealous emotional responses: Read the Rest of This Article »
Why Am I Not Making Progress? 3 Steps To Motivate Into Action
Image courtesy of Chelsea Grainger
Are you progressing in life, or are you just treading water? This is a brief article intended to motivate you beyond stagnation into purposeful action, once and for all. These are the steps I use to get things done.
Almost everyday I go to the gym, and almost everyday I see people in the gym who are unfortunately making very little progress. Although these individuals frequent the gym quite regularly, they are experiencing very little change in their bodies. This is quite the misfortune.
Today I want to discuss this phenomenon and explain the steps that cause some people to progress, while others stagnate. Read the Rest of This Article »
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