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How to Not Judge Others 17 Jul 2013 | 02:40 pm
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa I’ve come to realise that one of the things that make me unhappy is my judgments about other people. Very often, this makes them ...
The Art of Listening: My Mother’s 3 Secrets 5 Jun 2013 | 04:19 pm
The art of listening is so rare in our fast-paced world that one of the easiest ways to show we care about a person is to listen to them. All of us want a witness to our lives, someone to … Continue r...
The 4 “Happy Hormones” 9 May 2013 | 10:03 am
What are “happy hormones”, why do they make us happy, and how do we get more of these into our system? Happy hormones generally refer to endorphins, serotonin, dopamine, and oxytocin. Technically, som...
8 Ways to Choose Joy Everyday 19 Apr 2013 | 02:08 pm
“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it everyday.” – Henri Nouwen One day many years ago, I was taking a short cut through a carpark. A sudden spontaneous thought...
Money Can Buy Happiness 10 Apr 2013 | 01:00 pm
The latest research suggests that money can buy happiness, but only if we spend it the right way. Common sense tells us that the lack of money is certainly no happy state. Some studies suggest that a ...
30 Things I’ve Learned About Life 5 Apr 2013 | 09:59 am
Reader’s Contribution: These “I’ve learned…” quotes by Andy Rooney were emailed to me by a reader. Thank you dear reader! Andy Rooney was a TV commentator who died in 2011 at age 92. He wrote 16 books...
Between Stimulus and Response Lies Our Freedom 2 Apr 2013 | 04:12 pm
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” – Viktor E Frankl Viktor Frankl is probably the mo...
The Power of Acting As If 28 Mar 2013 | 04:58 pm
Psychologists tell us that our actions affect our feelings. Acting as if we are happy by smiling, for example, makes us feel instantly happier. Acting as if we are successful helps us succeed at work....
Your Sacred Dance Need Not Be Your Survival Dance 26 Mar 2013 | 11:27 am
In his book Soulcraft, Bill Plotkin differentiates between our sacred dance and our survival dance. Our survival dance is what we do to pay the bills. Our sacred dance is what we were born to do. Our ...
5 Steps for Being Happier Today 21 Mar 2013 | 02:52 pm
Did you know that Positive Psychology is the largest course at Harvard? It seems that being happier is in great demand today. Tal Ben-Shahar, the course lecturer, advises 5 steps for being happier. I ...
