happiness

Happiness is one of the most powerful emotions you can feel. It makes everything in life better. The feeling occurs when you find a situation to be favorable. Most people want more happiness but have accidentally assigned their happiness to external events and therefore don’t experience happiness very often.

People who are generally happy recognize that nothing outside of themselves creates happiness. The emotion you feel is the response you choose consciously or unconsciously to stimulus. The challenge for anyone seeking more happiness is to learn how to change the context of each situation and find happiness everywhere they look.

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• New Years Resolutions: A Psychoanalytic Perspective

  
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  Every year I think about what I need to do to make my life better. Every year I have the same idea. I should work less. I am self-employed and as such, it should be simple to dial it up or dial it down. And yet, every year I find myself in the exact same predicament. Why does this happen? Why do I not change my ...
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• Days are Long - Life is Short

  
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  I hope that no one thinks that a writer of blog entries about "the good life" (i.e., me) has it all together. Competitive soul that I am, I bet I could trounce most of you who read my entries on formal measures of neuroticism and rumination. As a writer, I try to convey a public persona of being somewhat evolved and ...
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• How Do You Really Want to Live?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Last month, a reporter asked me a question that I usually dont answer because it was about dating, and I resist the implication that since Im interested in single life, dating must be one of my favorite topics. That assumption instead speaks to one of my favorite myths - that if you are single, there is nothing you ...
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• The Karate Kid

  
  Professional self improvement articles directory — Authority: 160
  I have an unexpected relationship problem. It’s hard to believe it has become such an issue but it has. The whole thing started very innocently when my boyfriend and I were watching some silly action movie. The female heroine was kicking butt, and I mentioned to my boyfriend I took a semester’s worth of judo [...]
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• Im Richer than Tiger Woods

  
  Quiet the Thunder — Authority: 106
  I hate to jump on the Tiger Woods hate train, and I really do not intend to focus on the scandal of his ordeal, but more about the message it sends. The one about how people who supposedly have everything they could ever want are so terribly bankrupt emotionally, spiritually, and psychologically. Woods clearly has ...
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• Obama Addresses Terror Attempt

  
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  President Obama addresses the public on the recent attempted Christmas terror attack on Flight 253. Obama also orders reviews of watch list systems and screening procedures.
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• Notebook: Happy States

  
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  As the cold winter continues, many of us are dreaming of warmer places. A new study shows that people in warmer states are happier than the rest of us. Katie Couric comments.
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• The Karate Kid

  
  Professional self improvement articles directory — Authority: 160
  I have an unexpected relationship problem. It’s hard to believe it has become such an issue but it has. The whole thing started very innocently when my boyfriend and I were watching some silly action movie. The female heroine was kicking butt, and I mentioned to my boyfriend I took a semester’s worth of judo [...]
  15 hours ago

• The Happiness Project: Reslove to Live Happier in 2010

  
  TheFind blog — Authority: 645
  Need some inspiration for your New Year’s Resolutions?  Instead of the same old “lose weight” or “eat healthy”, you might try setting a broader goal such as the one Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project did.  She chose to be happier and she documented her efforts over a period of one year.  ...
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• Final Christmas LOLs

  
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• New Resolutions for New Years - A Simple Program

  
  Dr. Norris Chumley Satisfied Life — Authority: 127
  Dont know about you, but Ive made so many HUGE resolutions in the past, only to work on them for awhile, like a week or two, and then they fizzle away.  This time, Im only going to do really little, simple things that are easy and doable. This year - Im starting a really simple plan of action for you beginning ...
  20 hours ago

• Another One Down

  
  DarcKnyt — Authority: 124
  Well, another year is behind me. And despite my circumstances, there wasn’t a lot of contemplation about who I am, where I should be, why I didn’t get there, and what I’ll do differently as I approach the 45th year marker of my life. That’s quite something. Over the last several years, my birthday more than ...
  21 hours ago

• What happiness means to me!

  
  Tickled By Life — Authority: 136
  Seemingly prosperous, India’s silicon city Bangalore has the highest number of suicides and cases of depression in India. Engineers working as coders are nothing but white-collar coolies busy as hell. Double income coolie families have all the luxuries but rangolis are missing in front of their houses. They have ...
  23 hours ago

• Anxiety and Sleeplessness

  
  My Prosperous World — Authority: 152
  Are you desperate to get a good night’s sleep but finding it impossible? Do you find yourself tossing and turning all night and when you do drift off, you wake up soon afterwards again? Is this something you’ve been experience for a few months, or do you experience these bouts every once in a while? Perhaps ...
  23 hours ago

• With eight films in 2009, Mammootty’s on a roll

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 28 (IANS) Malayalam superstar Mammootty pleased all his fans with as many as eight of his films releasing in 2009 but the actor says he was just doing his job.The eight films that hit the screens this year were “Love in Singapore”, “Daddy Cool”, “Eee Patanthil Bhootham”, “Loud ...
  23 hours ago

• The Karate Kid

  
  Professional self improvement articles directory — Authority: 160
  I have an unexpected relationship problem. It’s hard to believe it has become such an issue but it has. The whole thing started very innocently when my boyfriend and I were watching some silly action movie. The female heroine was kicking butt, and I mentioned to my boyfriend I took a semester’s worth of judo [...]
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• A Letter from "A"

  
  ByronKatie.com — Authority: 103
  Hello Katie and Staff from the school of the work October 2009, My name is A and I was at the last School for the Work. I was the one who brought a companion and had bipolar. During the school I would often go to sleep early so I missed some School. I wanted to just let you know that the School was very ...
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• Fried Eggs

  
  Gary's World — Authority: 134
  A wife was making a breakfast of fried eggs for her husband. Suddenly, her husband burst into the kitchen. ‘Careful,’ he said, ‘CAREFUL! Put in some more butter! Oh my gosh! You’re cooking too many at once. TOO MANY! Turn them! TURN THEM NOW! We need more butter. Oh my gosh! WHERE are we going to get MORE ...
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• I’m not leaving without my water fix

  
  Sweetiegirlz's Weblog — Authority: 126
    Of course you knew that  Sweetiegirlz just loves the water didn’t you?  No trip would be complete without at least getting up close and personal with the stormy St. John’s river at high tide.   And though I know plenty of people who’d love to push me in,  I’d only sprout a mermaid tail and swim ...
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• two little blessings

  
  Not Finished Yet — Authority: 122
  Despite feeling so woozy the past few days (and, unfortunately, feeling anxious about my wooziness as well as feeling anxious about our upcoming trip) , I’ve managed to put on my “game face” for my kids.  Thankfully, often my kids make it easier for me to put on my game face as well as distract me from my ...
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