Happiness

We are born happy. It is in our DNA. When we are born, most people are nurtured and their needs are met. They are held, cuddled, and nursed. What else could a baby want? Then as we become adolescents, most kids continue on a happy journey with lots of attention and nurturing. Where does it…

I have habits I follow each morning which include stretching, dumbbells, tea, coffee, and a smoothy. These are warmups to begin my day of growth and contribution. Two habits in the morning that are important are meditating and writing. Writing is my creativity that helps me clarify my thoughts and focus on my purpose. Meditating…

Our attitude often determines our fate in life and Love Can Be a Discipline. We could quickly evaluate where most of our thoughts on a daily basis grade our attitude about life. Are we more angry most of the time at our circumstances or mostly living in gratitude? What are our first thoughts at waking?…

Hate seems to operate on several levels these days. We may have learned to hate someone as we have grown up for many reasons. Perhaps they bullied us, abused us, treated us cruelly, betrayed us or stand for something we can’t abide. Hate is also getting to be more prevalent in which we hate people…

If you look at one thing most people crave in their day it is feedback. What is feedback? It can be sourced by many activities. It is like a ping received by radar sensors when that something is out there and it sends back a signal we have been detected. Why is this important? We…

How often do we fight being sad? If we are sad, it seems we are not living correctly or we are paying for past sins as in karma. We don’t readily admit to other people we are sad nor do we brag about how many times we might be sad in a day. Sad does…

Impatience with time is a modern psychological issue. We tend to be impatient for things to happen. It goes from impatience with how a career is growing to impatience with car drivers who seem to be too slow. What is our relationship with time and how does it affect our lives? In Nature, everything develops…

Contribution is a Path to Happiness for several reasons and is the motivation to work on practices that make us happy. Contribution usually means we are giving one of our best gifts or the fruit of our best work to others. This means we are actively working on something to be more influential. Contributing is…

Understanding Why Happiness is Biological short cuts all the paths we take looking for it. It is sitting in front of our face and doesn’t require money to buy it. Many people without money are just as happy as those who are rich. Sure, being rich has its perks, but not everyone that is rich…

We have choices of how to spend our time in our lives. We have to consider earning money to pay for our living expenses and we have to consider if we are living our purpose to achieve the happiness and fulfillment we expect in life. Job Hunting can be a form of Life Hunting. Every…

All work and no play can lead to burn out so it is important to learn How Lifestyle Leads to Happiness. It also helps to have a practical definition of happiness. People know when they feel happy and know things that will make them happy, but few know how to sustain happiness. This is because…

The sameness of everyday life can get monotonous but it is important not to Let Routine Depress You. Our brain defaults to cortisol when it is not experiencing happiness. This is the mad trap we get into by needing happiness perks to get out of the cortisol stimulus. It is why we shop, overeat, do…

How often is happiness a motivation? We have obligations to ensure survival and happiness is not a requirement to live. When I was young, I rarely heard it mentioned. The new generations put a priority on it. People often think happiness comes with achievements or acquisitions. Why is that? My concept of happiness had always…

Workers complain about stress and lack of free time more than most other issues they may have with their careers or jobs. Some have placed free time higher than having kids or promotions in one survey. Why do we feel trapped? Why are our expectations not being realized in our daily lives? It certainly centers…

As we strive for so many things, what about asking Can We Live as a Model for Others. So many quality of life authors like Arianna Huffington in Strive urge us to consider the whether the rat race or treadmill we run is the happiest pursuit? We know that millennials have been making different choices…

You can Build Happiness into Your Day. Happiness does not have to be a big achievement or a new purchase. These thoughts of a main objective make attaining happiness more difficult. Happiness is a process more than an end. In fact, once the end is achieved the brain starts producing cortisol, the worry hormone, which…

Sometimes the pursuit of happiness leads us down the wrong path. Happiness is available to everyone with the right Daily Practices. When I was young, I rarely heard anyone talk about happiness. It seemed we had obligations to fulfill and goals to reach. Once we had reached our goals, we were then entitled to happiness….