Entries Tagged as 'Happiness'

Sunday, October 9th, 2011

10 Ways to Create Your Own Good Luck

Diligence is the mother of good luck.
-Benjamin Franklin 
I have great news!  Today could be your lucky day.  It’s not a matter of chance, it’s a matter of choice.  Lucky people are ordinary people who create their own good luck by practicing simple luck-producing habits.  Here’s what you need to do:
Constantly try new things.
There’s a […]

Sunday, October 2nd, 2011

10 Things To Stop Caring About Today

Every day is a new beginning.  But in life, sometimes you have to stop before you can truly begin.  So starting today…
Stop caring about everyone’s opinion of you.
For the most part, what other people think and say about you doesn’t matter.  When I was younger I let the opinions of my high school and early […]

Sunday, September 25th, 2011

30 Truths I’ve Learned In 30 Years

Since today is my 30th birthday I thought it fitting to share 30 things I understand now that were complete mysteries to me just a few short years ago.  These are simple lessons about life in general that I picked up while traveling, living in different cities, working for different companies (and myself), and meeting […]

Sunday, September 18th, 2011

27 Healthy Habits of Happiness

How do we heighten our happiness?  There are many ways and one size does not fit all.  Below I discuss what has worked for me and those closest to me – how a small group of us went from downbeat and drained to a happy and hopeful in a few short years.

Look for happiness in […]

Sunday, September 4th, 2011

140 Ways to Change the World

Act as if what you do makes a difference.  It does.
-William James
Doing something nice for someone can change the world.  Maybe not the whole world, but their world.
Start small.  Start now.

Smile when you make eye contact with someone.
Hold the door open for the person behind you.
Send a hand-written thank you card to someone who […]

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

12 Things Happy People Do Differently

by Jacob Sokol of Sensophy
“I’d always believed that a life of quality, enjoyment, and wisdom were my human birthright and would be automatically bestowed upon me as time passed.  I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live - that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had […]

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

50 Ways to Waste a Life

If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never get it.  If you don’t ask the right questions, you’ll always get the wrong answers.  If you don’t take a step forward, you’re always going to be in the same place.  Life is a journey full of choices.  Here are 50 wasteful choices to avoid.

Spend […]

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

Why We Must Forgive Ourselves

To forgive is to set a prisoner free
and discover the prisoner was you.
Healing
Once upon a time there lived a woman who had a bad temper.  She screamed at and scolded everyone around her.  For most of her life she believed the fiery rage inside her was everyone else’s fault.  But one morning she woke […]

Sunday, August 14th, 2011

30 Good Karma Things To Do With Your Free Time

by Barrie Davenport of Live Bold and Bloom.
If you cut to the chase of the meaning of life, it’s the ‘meaning’ part that we all long for.  Beyond all of the stuff, excitement, and happiness we chase on any given day, all of us want to feel like we’ve made an impact on the world […]

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

54 Life Lessons 14 Years of World Travel Taught Me

This post was written by Caz, author of the y Travel Blog.
Travel means so much more to me than simply seeing new destinations and learning about new cultures.  Travel is a journey within myself.  It is through my 14 years of living and traveling around the world that I have learned more about who I […]