There is something nostalgic about spare time. Like an old friend you knew once and somehow lost touch. Spare time beckons, yet few can hear the whispers.
Wouldn't it be cool if we could just choose when we want a little drama in our lives? A little drama is a good thing, but too much can wreak havoc on our health.
Although it took me a while to sort this out, apparently its something that a lot of people already knew. "A fool with a plan will beat a genius with no plan every time."
Feeling energetic is a key to feeling happy. When my energy feels at a low ebb, I try one of these techniques.
I've been raising laying hens for about a year, and I've never been happier. I have fresh eggs whenever I want them and I've come to love chickens for all their neurotic, pecking glory.
What if we could truly love, accept, and appreciate our bodies and how we look, right now? Imagine what life would be like without negative body obsession?
Sociologists have long considered suicide to be the gold standard measure of psychological wellbeing. Now we have a long-term study that finds that marriage protects men more than women from themselves.
Over the past month, you've probably come across quite the conversation about happiness studies. And three weeks ago, I set out to discover whatever I could about this subject, as it applies to our youth.
Our media commentary is rarely about what is happening now - mostly it's about what happened in the past or what someone thinks is going to happen in the future.
Change has to start within ourselves; we cannot expect the world to change if we do not.
Women are much more powerful than they were forty years ago. But they are stressed, anxious, and not as happy. Why?
I've written before about my resolution to Get more sleep, and I'm bringing it up again, because I'm truly convinced that this is one of the first aspects of life to tackle when you start a happiness project.
Anyone who has ever worked with victims of various tragedies will know that there is a great deal of difference between what happened and how the person responds to what happened.
Instead of just gutting it out or going into some form of creative denial, what if we embraced the crises in our lives and actually utilized them for the incredible growth opportunities that they are?
Do you think you can dance? Wait till you see the lady in this video!
Polar opposites in childhood, finding middle ground as adults, I met up with Denise Austin, fitness guru, to discuss saddlebag slimmers and fit bottoms.
On these cold and dark mornings, as the days grow shorter and shorter, I find that I so appreciate the early morning hours. I remember who I am.
Upstanders are people who, when faced with information that is troubling because of injustice, take a positive stand and act on behalf of themselves and others.
In their lucid and levelheaded way, Kristof and WuDunn build a powerful moral case for fostering economic progress in the developing world by unleashing the potential of women.
It's Halloween and time to don your masks. What aspect of yourself will you be expressing? Do you see yourself as a gangster, an angel, a beast, or a talk-show host?
I've found that buying into individual tales of difficulty and challenges only serves to add to the burden of overcoming life's obstacles and improving one's experience of well being.
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