Way #4 – Keep Growing (Plant new seeds!) Mindfulness can help you ‘deliver’ on your New Year Resolutions! We often decide to do things that are well-intended but sputter out and become disappointments instead of accomplishments… sound familiar? That’s because it happens to all of us, and many people give up making resolutions for personal […]
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Include Everyone – 7 Ways to Get Happy, Right Now
Way # 3 – INCLUDE EVERYONE (It’s a big boat) According to astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, our relationships don’t end with family, friends, and acquaintances. If you’ve watched any of the Cosmos series, you may have learned that we are actually connected, through our DNA, to everyone who has ever lived on the planet. Now […]
Be Yourself – 7 Ways to Get Happy, Right Now
Way #2 – BE YOURSELF (Everyone else is taken) People who live in alignment with their core values often say they are happier, and that’s a great reason to increase your personal autonomy – defined as “independence, and freedom from external control or influence.” One way to measure your level of personal autonomy is to […]
Accept Yourself – 7 Ways to Get Happy, Right Now
Way #1 – ACCEPT YOURSELF (Then consider improvements) Until recently, scientists measured happiness using only two criteria – material success and good health. Now, the new science of well-being has identified several major factors that influence our level of happiness. This is good news – even more ways to be happy! The first one is […]