Interesting blog on Happiness

by miami | Aug 24, 2006

Interesting to see someone take Happiness as a project! I take it as a way of life. Grtetchen Rubin writes well and has lots of cool posts.

Take a look!
http://happinessproject.typepad.com/

The Happiness
Project

I’m working on a book, THE HAPPINESS PROJECT–a memoir about this year, during which I’m testing every principle, tip, theory, and scientific study I can find, whether from Aristotle or St. Therese or Martin
Seligman or Oprah. I’m gathering these rules for living from everywhere I can, and I’ll report what works and what doesn’t. This happiness blog is part of my
larger project.

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Be Do Have is the key to being happy!

by miami | Aug 23, 2006

I wrote the book Be Do Have which is based on years of coaching people and understanding most of us are Doing something to Have stuff so we can Be happy. It is not working!

Here is an excerpt from Neil Donald Walsch and his Conversations With God book (which I highly recommend!

“GOD: Most people believe if they “have” a thing (more time, money, love — whatever), then they can finally “do” a thing (write a book, take up a hobby, go on vacation, buy a home, undertake a relationship), which will allow them to “be” a thing (happy, peaceful, content, or in love). In actuality, they are reversing the Be-Do-Have paradigm. In the universe as it really is (as opposed to how you think it is), “havingness” does not produce “beingness,” but the other way around. (more…)

Money can’t buy you happiness.(Told you!)

by miami | Aug 22, 2006

On the Early Show today, Money Magazine Editor Eric Schurenberg made some interesting observations about money and happiness.

I have said all along money cannot buy your happiness (although it certainly can make you more comfortable!).

Read the whole article here.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/22/earlyshow/living/money/main1924917.shtml

Money can make you happy but having more money doesn’t make you more happy. That’s where a lot of people go wrong.

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Achieving happiness is not that hard.

by miami | Aug 22, 2006

Achieving happiness is not that hard. Really!

Here a professor of psychology at U of VA Jonathan Haidt gives 5 steps. (But these are in my book as well!)

5 steps to happiness

The path to happiness actually might be a superhighway. Everybody wants to get there, and if you watch the road signs, it could be an easier route than you think. (more…)

Six Steps to Happiness

by miami | Aug 21, 2006

I thought these 6 steps from a Harvard lecturer were simple and to the point!

Enjoy!
Six Tips for Happiness

Advice from Tal Ben-Shahar.

1. Give yourself permission to be human. When we accept emotions—such as
fear, sadness, or anxiety—as natural, we are more likely to overcome them.
Rejecting our emotions, positive or negative, leads to frustration and
unhappiness.

2. Happiness lies (more…)