Happiness is not something that happens to us. Source: Do You Seek Happiness as a Direction or a Destination?
Do You Seek Happiness as a Direction or a Destination?
You Can Get Much More Out of Your Music
Here’s how to gain some benefits from music that you may not be aware of. Source: You Can Get Much More Out of Your Music
The Happiness Calendar
I’m grateful that Raffaello Palandri posts this calendar every month. It’s one of the many great resources available from the Greater Good Science Center. Check it out!
What Is a Happy Life?
And who is the happiest living human? Source: What Is a Happy Life?
The Problem With Striving for Fun Rather Than Abiding in Joy
Find the happiness you’re looking for. Source: The Problem With Striving for Fun Rather Than Abiding in Joy
How to Worry Less and Be Happier
A good place to start is simply by writing down what’s bothering you. Source: How to Worry Less and Be Happier
3 Proven Ways to Be a Happier Person
Here’s a path to a more fulfilling life and unlocking joy. Source: 3 Proven Ways to Be a Happier Person
The Seven Habits That Lead to Happiness in Old Age
Your well-being is like a retirement account: The sooner you invest, the greater your returns will be. Source: The Seven Habits That Lead to Happiness in Old Age
How to Be Happy Growing Older
Arthur C. Brooks writes “Next to one’s birthday, the passing of the calendar year induces us to reflect on the march of time in our life. This is not a welcome subject for many—which is perhaps why a lot of people simply redefine old age virtually out of existence. When Americans were asked in 2009 what “being old” means, the most popular response was turning 85. Yet the average life span in the United States in 2022 was only 76. Apparently, then, the average American dies nine years before getting old.
The impulse to define old age as “older than I am now” is not surprising, given all the ways our culture worships youth—its beauty, vitality, and entrepreneurial energy—and offers us any number of options for spending time and money to stop or slow down the clock of aging. And as if the adulation of youth weren’t enough, the stigmatization of seniors is always at hand, through overt discrimination, ageist stereotyping, and crass “OK Boomer”–style contempt.
Continue reading “How to Be Happy Growing Older”When Things Have to Change: How to Find the Willpower to Achieve Your Goals
If you’re feeling discouraged & unmotivated to create change, these five strategies may help you increase your willpower & achieve your goals. Source: When Things Have to Change: How to Find the Willpower to Achieve Your Goals
If you recognize these 8 signs, you may have mastered the art of happiness
Happiness isn’t something that just falls in your lap one day. It’s a state of being we all have to continuously practice through action. Source: If you recognize these 8 signs, you’ve mastered the art of happiness
What Books Give Us: Hermann Hesse on Reading and the Heart of Wisdom
Books show us what it is like to be another and at the same time return us to ourselves. We read to learn how to live — how to love and how to suffer, how to grieve and how to be glad. We read to clarify ourselves and to anneal our values. We read for the assurance that others have lived through what we are living through. “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read,” James Baldwin reflected in his most personal interview.
And yet while books may give us a foothold for the disorientation of being and an antidote to our existential loneliness, the paradox of living is that no example, no parallel, no borrowed wisdom is a substitute for life itself. The story of our own lives is only ever written on the blank page of living, our store of wisdom only ever found in the deepening truth of our own experience.
In 1918 — more than a decade before he penned his magnificent essay on the timeless magic of books and three decades before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962), entering his forties, captured this paradox in a short poem of great simplicity and loveliness, found in the posthumous collection The Seasons of the Soul: The Poetic Guidance and Spiritual Wisdom of Herman Hesse (public library). Source: What Books Give Us: Hermann Hesse on Reading and the Heart of Wisdom
What Are the Moments That Matter Most in Life?
Learn how to let go and accept change. Source: What Are the Moments That Matter Most in Life?
Majority of Adults Have Adverse Childhood Experiences
Is it any wonder that most people in the US are walking around like a ticking time bomb? A trauma therapist summarizes WHO’s 2023 report on ACEs. Source: Majority of Adults Have Adverse Childhood Experiences
Continue reading “Majority of Adults Have Adverse Childhood Experiences”Can You Trust Research on How to Become Happier?
A new article suggests there are serious limitations in how we study happiness. Source: Can You Trust Research on How to Become Happier?
Curating What Fills Your Mind Can Shape Your Resilience
The author writes “Being resilient means you have already come through “many dangers, toils and snares.” Hopefully, you will become stronger, more mature, and compassionate. Being resilient means you have successfully broken through the darkness you confronted.
This means you have light to offer others, too. You have insights to share that can help someone else avoid an error you made yourself. Maybe you can calm someone’s fear as they face a procedure you had yourself.
Share the light. Share the wisdom life has taught you. You may well be someone’s answered prayer.”
That is the very purpose of this website — to share the light and wisdom through curation and occasionally, creation. I could just bookmark this content and keep it to myself by I share it here (and automagically to Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and X) in hopes that just one other person might stumble upon it and benefit from it. Go to the source: Curating What Fills Your Mind Can Shape Your Resilience
Look for Pleasant Things or Avoid Unpleasant Things
Be aware of wanting inside your own mind. Source: Look for Pleasant Things or Avoid Unpleasant Things
10 Ways to Balance Life’s Losses With Its Gains
A new measure shows how life’s gains can equal or outweigh life’s losses. Source: 10 Ways to Balance Life’s Losses With Its Gains
Bruce Lee’s Never Before Revealed Letters to Himself About Authenticity, Personal Development, and the Measure of Success
“This is the entire essence of life: Who are you? What are you?” So wrote young Leo Tolstoy in his diary of moral development. Bruce Lee (November 27, 1940–July 20, 1973) was around Tolstoy’s age when he turned to this central question of existence more than a century later and approached it with the same subtleness of insight and sincerity of spirit with which he approached all of life. Source: Bruce Lee’s Never Before Revealed Letters to Himself About Authenticity, Personal Development, and the Measure of Success
3 Secrets of Happy Couples
The newest science for keeping the spark alive. Source: 3 Secrets of Happy Couples
How the ‘Habit Loop’ Helps You Override Your Existing Routines To Create Better Ones
In his epic book The ONE Thing, Gary Keller talks about the idea that you don’t need willpower as much as you need the ability to build small habits that take you where you want to go. For example, at the beginning of this year I started a diet and exercise campaign that I used to lose over 50lbs so far this year. I started by walking two miles every morning but I didn’t need the willpower to do that, I just needed to form the habit of putting on walking clothes first thing in the morning and not talking them off until after my walk. Makes sense? If not, Gary will explain it better!
Time to (finally) kick those bad habits to the curb. Source: How the ‘Habit Loop’ Helps You Override Your Existing Routines To Create Better Ones
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