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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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  • Review: Benga – Chapter II


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    Artist: Benga Release:  Chapter II Release Date: 6th May 2013 Benga is back. ‘ Chapter II’ is here and is his biggest installment in many ways. Benga  has always been a high ranking pioneer of the modern electric music scene and it is his third album, on the back of ‘ Newstep’  and ‘ Afro ...
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  • Only 27 percent of college graduates work in a field related to their major


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    According to this new study from Jaison Abel and Richard Dietz of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the vast majority of college graduates end up working in a field in no way related to their major. 73 percent, … Continue reading →
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  • How I Cut My Spending in Half to Take a Job I Loved


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    In 2009, I was a very senior executive celebrating my fourth anniversary at a brokerage firm. I was working about 70 hours a week, managing 80 people, and traveling to the company’s other offices (two of which were cross-country) 3-4 days a week, twice a month. Even when I wasn’t at the office or on the road, my ...
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  • 6 Ways to Improve Relationships by Tackling Self-Consciousness


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    When I was growing up, I was a great soccer star, a swimming champion, and a well-read student. Deep down, though, I was struggling to make more than a few good relationships with other people . One of the biggest hindrances in my life has been self-consciousness. Not only did I worry what other people thought ...
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  • Were you taught to be happy?


    CoupleDumb — Authority Authority: 129
    CoupleDumb created a happiness manifesto several years ago. To that end, we continue to explore what makes life worth living. As we embrace Positive Psychology and the influence of the founders and researchers begin to permeate our society, we continually ask ourselves, ‘why aren’t more people happy?’ We think ...
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  • The Joy of a Warm Summer Day


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    This post is part of The Awakened Heart Project Week 21: The Joy of a Warm Summer Day   “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh   All I Want To Do Is Sit In The Sun  I don’t know about you, […]
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  • Buddha, Joan Of Arc & Even Luke Skywalker Shared This #1 Trait That Best Predicts Elite Performance


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    The Greater Good Science Center (GGSC), based out of the University of California, Berkeley, is unique in its commitment to both science and practice: not only does the organization sponsor groundbreaking scientific research into social and emotional well-being, they also help people apply this research to their ...
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  • American Concept Cars from The Past


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    Found at Dark Roasted Blend: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2011/12/american-concept-cars-showcase-part-2.html      
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  • Old Vintage Ads


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    Found at Dark Roasted Blend: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2011/02/weird-vintage-ads-outrageous.html
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  • Puzzled? “Chuga-Squeak” speaks


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    " Chuga-squeak, Chuga-squeak ," repeats the Grackle.Our Tucson courtyard, amass in Palm, Olive, Mesquite and Cyprus trees, is home to the Grackle.The Grackle is longer than most blackbirds, slimmer than... Read the full post here »
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  • The Happiness Lesson from "The Office"


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    My daughters and I are huge fans of the TV show, The Office (the American version). We have the DVDs, we’ve watched every episode several times, and they get funnier each time. read more
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  • What’s Been Missing?


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    When we came to this physical world we were aware that we were going to be dealing with ego.  We knew this. We knew that the ego was going to be a part of our life experience. As we began to live life we seemed to think that the physical self with the ego attached […]
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  • A friend is forever


    The Plain House — Authority Authority: 138
    When you have a good friend, you have someone to lean on someone to cry on. When you have a good pal, you have someone to be sad with someone to be goofy with. When you have a good companion, you have someone who will share good times someone who will always be there. -SGR
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  • The 21 Habits of Highly Happy People


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    By Judy Widener – Researchers say that happiness is a result of thoughts and activities that create a sense of inner peace. Here are 21 behaviors that have been found to enhance feelings of happiness. The list is broken down into general two categories: things to do, and things to stop doing. The first group ...
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  • Simplicity – The Key To Happiness


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    By Sandy Tashi Hounsell – Simplicity is not just about removing distractions from our life where we have become over committed, but is it also about eliminating the jumble from our minds, our bodies, our home and our lifestyle. Tidying up our life brings our mind back under control so we no longer feel out of ...
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  • Holy Spirit’s ‘Surprises’ Pave the Way to Happiness, Pope Francis Says


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    By DAVID UEBBING/CNA EWTN NEWS | VATICAN CITY — Around 200,000 pilgrims packed St. Peter’s Square to celebrate Pentecost with Pope Francis, who called on them to be open to “God’s surprises” because they bring true happ...
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  • The Bottom Line on Happiness (VIDEO)


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    Andrew Oswald, professor of economics at the University of Warwick, tells Della Bradshaw that research shows happy employees add more to the bottom line. The man dubbed "professor of happiness" says trials have shown a 12 per cent increase in productivity if test subjects were made happier.
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  • "How to buy happiness."


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    "The new science of spending points to a surprising conclusion: How we use our money may matter as much or more than how much of it weve got." I dont know why that is "surprising," but the details are perhaps worth noting. For one thing, buying a house or moving to a better house is found unlikely to bring more ...
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  • The Key To Happiness: Try To Be Happy And Choose The Right Music


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    Sing Hallelujah, come on get happy, or, you could listen to any number of other songs, as long as they are chosen with an ear toward happiness, and as long you seriously try to be happy. Happiness, researchers at the University of Missouri believe, may be in the ear of the beh older, and it may be attainable through ...
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  • Marine is Re-united With His Dog from Afghanistan


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    US Marine reunited with his best friend from Afghanistan When Marine Sgt. Ross Gundlachserved as a dog handler in Afghanistan, he told the yellow lab who was his constant companion that he’d look her up when he returned home. ”I promised her if we made it out of alive, I’d do whatever it took to [...]
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