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30 days to Happiness day #25 How to do Happiness write
At the beginning of the year, on Facebook, I saw an idea that really appealed to me. It was to write down all of your happy moments, things you had achieved, things you were grateful for and great memories, as they happened, on pieces of paper and then put them in a jar. Then at…
Read More30 days to Happiness day #24 The F Word
So we are nearing the end of 30 days to Happiness. How’s it going? Have you tried any of the tips or tools? Have you made any changes? If you haven’t, or if you have started and then stopped again, then the chances are you have come up against the F word- that four letter word that is responsible for…
Read More30 days to Happiness day # 23 Automatic No’s
I have mentioned before the concept of the automatic no. Those questions, situations and choices where you don’t even stop to think about your response but just automatically say no. Coincidentally, for years I drove an automatic car. When I needed to change it I resolutely refused to drive a car with gears. I…
Read More30 days to Happiness day #22 Archetypal anarchy
Who would you be if you could be anyone else in the world? If you could temporarily be somebody entirely different. Well, guess what……you can. I’m not talking from the perspective of feeling dissatisfied with who you are, I am talking about your ability to see the bigger picture of your life from…
Read More30 days to Happiness day#21 Living on Purpose
Do you feel stuck in a rut, sort of happy but kind of numb, feeling like there should be more to life? You are way past having career advice, but still wondering what to do with your life? Or maybe you swing between dreading Monday Mornings and looking forward to Friday afternoons, trading in your life to…
Read More30 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…
Read More30 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…
Read More30 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…
Read More30 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…
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