Alison
30 days to Happiness day # 20 Doing it for someone else
There are two distinctive ways that we derive happiness. Happiness from pleasure and happiness from purpose and in an ideal world we have a balance of both. We can find happiness from feeling we have a purpose and we can find happiness in enjoying pleasure and did you know that performing pleasurable, or purposeful random acts…
30 days to Happiness day # 18- Purposeful pursuits to pleasure
Happiness does not just live in our thinking it lives in our actions too and more of it can be cultivated by accumulating happy experiences and although we don’t always get a quick fix instant gratification from experiences, like some people do when they make a material purchase, the impact remains for longer. Most…
30 days to Happiness day #17- personal revelation alert- I am taking off one of my masks!
Happiness is an attitude and a behaviour, a choice and a decision that cumulatively builds with more practice and habit. Although it may sometimes seem it, I don’t think if we just think happy thoughts we will be happy- it would be lovely if it were that simple. Happy is who we are, without our…
30 days to Happiness #16 Why failure is a good thing
Happiness is not something to strive for; if we are striving that implies we are chasing something that we don’t have. Our natural state is peace and happiness, it’s just sometimes things get in the way of that. One of the things that can obstruct our happiness view is the self created feeling of…
30 days to Happiness day #15 on how not to kill a drunk person.
We live in the experience of our thinking and we create our feeling states firstly in our mind. So, what is going on when we wake up and life just doesn’t feel as good as it did yesterday; when we feel down, vulnerable, sad, anxious or fearful. Our conscious thoughts are the same, we haven’t…
30 days to Happiness day# 14 Forget it!
Sometimes I wonder if part of the reason I spend so much time being happy is because I don’t really have a very good memory! I don’t hold on to resentments. I don’t recall the feelings that go with any of the negative things that have happened in my life and because I have also…
30 days to Happiness #13- Do you want to be right or do you want to be in love?
or, in other words, do you want to be right or do you want to be happy? Let’s lighten up a bit today- and by lighten up I mean literally allow ourselves to become lighter, because jeez, needing to be right all the time…… that’s heavy. The truth is- there is no wrong and there…
30 days to Happiness #12 Coach yourself to Happiness
I would like to share a coaching model with you today that can be used easily and effectively to help you make massive happiness changes in your life. Monday is a good time to set our intentions for the week, so lets do a quick review of what we have discussed so far: 1.…