Last week I talked about how to choose New Year’s resolutions that will make you happy. Of course, making resolutions is just the first part – the part that is usually more difficult is actually keeping them. The best way I have found to keep my resolutions is by making them into habits. Many of […]
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“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about
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“Tell everyone you know: “My happiness depends on me, so you’re off the hook.” And then demonstrate it. Be happy, no matter what they’re doing. Practice feeling good, no matter what. And before you know it, you will not give anyone else responsibility for the way you feel-and then, you’ll love them all. Because
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For some reason, I have been noticing a lot of negativity around me lately. There are updates on Facebook with various complaints, meetings in which people focus on all the things that are going wrong, and even when walking Rafa (our doggie) the other day, a regular park patron greeted me with “You are
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Happy New Year! And welcome to 2014! It’s a chance for new beginnings, and for many this means it’s time to make New Year’s resolutions. Have you made yours yet? New Year’s resolutions are great, but I don’t like making them without focusing on what’s most important to us. Why are we making these resolutions
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“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.” ~Theodore Rubin Many of us are striving for a happy life, where everything goes well, we feel good, we are having good experiences and there are no problems. And we might even get to
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Looking at the beautiful blue sky today on my morning walk made me incredibly happy. I felt like things were just perfect in this moment. Wouldn’t it be great if we could bottle up these types of happy moments in our life and carry them with us through the day? Maybe we can – with
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“Happiness lies in accepting everyone in our lives EXACTLY as they are. We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe others to be imperfect and try to change them. This is the number one rule for a happy relationship.” ~Jonathan Lockwood Huie Have you ever wanted to change someone else? Or wished that they
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We might understand that perfectionism does not make us happy, but we may still believe that it will make us successful. After all, we have all heard phrases like “No pain, no gain,” or “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” It often seems like we have to go to extremes in order to become
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“Don’t be perfect. Be you.Don’t be what you think they want you to be Be what you know you are Don’t look outside yourself for anything It’s all within.” ~Jackson Kiddard A great reminder that being perfect won’t make us happy, even though we may have been conditioned to believe otherwise. There is no perfect
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