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If you don’t have good self-esteem now, you’ll hate yourself later!
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When it comes to the choice of happiness it is amazing what good self-esteem can do for you.
Here is a story about a young man that was picking up starfish that illustrates how important you really are.
This elder man was walking along the beach when he noticed a young gentlemen picking up starfish and throwing them back in the ocean. The elderly man asks, “What are you doing?” The young gentlemen looked at him and said, “The starfish would die if I left them here in the sand.” The elderly man then said, “There is no way you’ll get to all the starfish and make a difference, because there are too many.” The young man said as he was throwing one back, “I made a difference to that one.”
How the secret to happiness can be in changing your habits?
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We all have habits that we could change for the better, I do anyway, don’t you? Are you looking at your life in a positive way or negative way? Has this become a habit?
We all know that attitude has a lot to do with happiness. Something goes wrong during the day and we talk to ourselves and say, “Man that always happens to me.” Now what if you could change what you say when things don’t go right. Instead of “Man that always happens to me,” you would say, “Don’t know why that happened, but something good can come out of it, it always does.”
Happiness versus productivity
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The question has been given to me by Corinne Edward: “How we feel we have to be productive in order to justify our being on this planet.” I would say that this is a why we feel we have to be productive in order to justify our being on this planet. What do you think?
My answer to that question is actually very simple: Society
An example of this is: You are at a social even; what is one of the first questions someone will ask you? “What do you do?”
Speaking Nicely – the Secret to Happiness
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Imagine you’re walking down the road, and you see someone in front of you. You walk up to them and sneer, and then say:
“You’re a really ugly person. I hate your face today and you’re really overweight. You’re also a bit useless mostly, and people don’t like you very much. That blemish on your face is really noticeable, and everyone stares at it when you go out.”
Can you imagine doing that? No?
The truth is you probably did that very thing today.
…To yourself.
A change is as good as a rest, when it comes to being Happy!
Posted by: | CommentsHave you had one of those weeks where everything seems to be a bit of a drag? Sometimes, no matter how hard you try to stay positive, life’s little hills start to get you down.
Happiness can mean making some small changes
If money and time was no object, we’d probably hop on a plane and go on a vacation. We’d find a way to get out of the house for a while and have a change of scene. However, in our busy lives this is not always possible. Kids, work and domestic obligations keep us stuck in a rut and make it difficult for us to take time out.
Natural Happiness Boosters
Posted by: | CommentsWe all need a little pick-me-up from time to time, and sometimes it’s easy to neglect our health and emotional wellbeing if we are busy. However, nature provides us with an incredible range of mood-boosters that it’s worth taking advantage of before we reach for the wine!
Happiness Boosters
Here are some great mood-boosting tricks to get you back to Happy…
Eat chilli to enhance your mood and go from sad to happy
Why Talking it Over Makes Us Happy
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Happiness Comes With Sharing
Since the dawn of time, we humans have been using one of our most powerful tools in the quest for happiness – conversation. Whatever happens in our life, we instinctively turn to other people to share our experiences, and ‘chew the fat’ – talk things through and reach conclusions based on our conversations. When things go right or wrong, we immediately pick up the telephone or write to our friends and family to let them know.
Hug Help – The Key to Happiness!
Posted by: | CommentsOne of my earliest memories is of me falling down as a child, and getting
Hugs for Happiness
scooped up and hugged better. Even as adults, we still crave that amazing feeling of being held closely, made to feel safe and loved, and cared about unconditionally.
Hugs are one of the best ways for two people to show to each other that they are liked and appreciated. A recent clinical study suggests that touch reduces stress and anxiety: when a subject touched the hand of a loved one, centre’s of the brain concerned with fear and danger became less active.
The power of smiling revisited; for your happiness within
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Find your happiness within with a smile
Have you had a good grin today? There are more reasons than you would think for smiling your head off, even when you don’t quite feel up to the task. I’m revisiting the benefits of a great smile, because it can’t be underestimated! Here’s why:
Smiling enhances our attractiveness
We are drawn to people who smile. There is an attraction factor, which means we want to know a smiling person and figure out what is so good about their lives! Frowns, scowls and grimaces all push people away, but a smile draws us in to others, because there happiness within is showing.
On Being Indulgent – Choose happiness with some Tasty Food
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Have some fun food for Happiness
Hollywood is always bombarding us with images of stick-thin, willpower-driven women on a quest to find the perfect figure. The problem is, while we would all probably like to change something about ourselves, being disciplined is tough, and it doesn’t always make us feel great or bring us happiness within.
A company I know has a marketing department, made up of about seven women. They are all slim, fashionable and perfectly made-up, with great clothes sense and ‘Sex and the City’ type attitudes. It’s always a bit daunting to go in there and talk to them, as it makes me feel really aware of my own flaws. On the wall, they have a big poster which reads:
