Archive for the ‘happiness’ Category


Do You Need Validation?

Many people are walking around every day feeling “not very special”.  We have our jobs that we do, often times, without any words of encouragement or validation for a job well done. I once heard a wise man say, “everybody is walking around with a sign on their chest that says, make me feel special!”  [...]

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How Can I Live the Life I Want? Tip 3

The world is moving forward faster and faster.  Technology is growing so fast that it is a full time job keeping up with the changes.  It is very easy in this world of rapid changes to lose the “human touch”.    When calling a company, an automated phone systems that requires you to listen and pick [...]

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How Can I Keep My Jar Full Of Joy, Happiness and Fulfillment?

The best gifts we give ourselves are the gifts we give to others. That sounds like a paradox doesn’t it? In  the dictionary, a paradox is described as “a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.” Does that really pertain to joy, happiness and fulfillment? I have [...]

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Life, Happiness and Kick the Can

Today, when I was checking my email, I came across a great article that really got me to thinking about life, happiness and getting older.  The article was from Nicholas P. Kidd and Henk J.M. Schram who write a delightful ezine with a different slant called Evolution Ezine.  The article is called “The Greatest Advice [...]

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Goals – Are you an Antelope or a Lion?

In the jungle there have always been two distinct types of animals.  The first type of animal is the grass eaters.  This is the category where the antelopes fit into.  They drift through life drinking, eating and dropping their waste packages across the plains, enriching the soil.  Their droppings are needed to feed the grass [...]

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The Mind Viruses that are Killing Your Happiness

Each of us, whether we choose to believe it or not, are responsible for our own happiness.  Have you ever heard the comment that “happiness is a state of mind?” Our happiness and success is dictated by the thoughts we predominately think.  If we take responsibility for our own happiness and the thoughts we think, [...]

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The 3 Different Personality Traits of People

Each and every one of us has a need to have personality traits that  get along well with other people.  We need it, either professionally, socially, or both.  Unless a person lives in a cave and is satisfied with no human interaction I would suggest that social skills are important.  Let’s face it, our happiness [...]

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