Posts Tagged ‘happiness’

Your Happiness Plan

A Quick Survey Before we get under way with today’s briefer-than-normal chat, I want to conduct a little research on the run. Put up your hand if happiness is one of your aims in life. And no, participation is not optional at Stepcase Lifehack today. Yep, even you scaredy cats. Okay, keep ‘em up so I can count… 1001, 1002, 1003… yep; that’s all of you. Guessed as much. So it seems that… Continue reading

November 2 2009 | By Craig | Tagged: happiness, life, materialism, personal-development, planning | 17 comments»

More Ways to Go on a Date with Life

Yesterday I suggested that the rules that apply to successful dating could be applied more widely to life in general. After all, when we go on a date, we want our partner to see us at our best – and what could be better than being at your best all the time?With that in mind, I listed 6 guidelines that apply as well to life as to dating, and… Continue reading

September 17 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: dating, happiness, life, personal-development, self-improvement | 16 comments»

Go on a Date with Life

A lot has been written about dating. Some people rally enjoy dating, but for many, dating seems like a horrific trauma. Consider how many people stay in unsatisfying or even outright bad relationships because they’re even more terrified by the prospect of being “out there” again.Dating can be a chore because it seems so far removed from real life. But I wonder if there aren’t some everyday lessons we can… Continue reading

September 16 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: dating, happiness, life, personal-development, self-improvement | 23 comments»

Are You Ditching Work-Life Balance Because You’re Afraid of Losing Your Job?

Some people think that life balance is a thing of luxury, something you pursue when times are good...that we should work like dogs to remain indispensable in this unpredictable economy. But wait a sec. Weren't we were already working like dogs, before we added in the fear of losing our jobs? Here's what got me going on this subject:In the post Keep Your Job: A 10-Point Survival Guide at… Continue reading

January 21 2009 | By Lisa | Tagged: Add new tag, balance, career, economy, happiness, job, life, psychology, work, work-life balance | 21 comments»

Toward a New Vision of Productivity, Part 7: The Joy of Lifehacking

This is the seventh part of a 12-part series I am posting from the end of December and into January 2009, examining the current understanding of productivity and where the concept might be heading in the future. I invite Lifehack’s

January 8 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: fun, hack, happiness, Lifehack, Productivity, work | 10 comments»

Goal Setting – The WHY behind the WHAT

Our Real Goals In Personal Development-speak we are always talking about goals, outcomes, success, desires and dreams. In other words, all the stuff we want to do, achieve and create in our world. And while it's important for us to know what we want to achieve (our goal), it's also important for us to understand why we want to achieve it; the reason behind the goal or some would say, our… Continue reading

December 29 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: achievement, goal, goal setting, happiness, personal-development, self-help | 10 comments»

What’s It Going to Take to Make You Happy?

I’ve been thinking about this question a lot lately. What does it take to be a happy person? Obviously the answer is going to be different for each person, but what worries me is that, as far as I can tell, most people don’t even ask – and those that do don’t have a very good answer.Ask someone what would make them happy, and their answer is likely to be… Continue reading

October 1 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: goal, happiness, life | 42 comments»

How to Love Yourself, Even if No One Else Does

Photo by Toronja AzulFirst, the second part of that title isn't true. You either forgot who loves you, or need to find more people who do.But there may be times where you feel alone and depressed — just about everyone has spells like that, or is strong enough to admit it. It's not easy to talk about, but loneliness, feeling unwanted, and even self-hate from… Continue reading

September 1 2008 | By Torley | Tagged: adapt, courage, happiness, iterate, loneliness, love, praise, satisfaction, self-confidence, social | 19 comments»

8 Essential Skills They Didn’t Teach You In School

Lately, I've been simultaneously using less and less of what I learned in school while discovering more and more skills that are vital to success which were never even offered in school!If I were to be 100% honest, probably the most valuable skill I learned in college was how to talk to girls (certainly a vital skill for happiness and success, but not what I was there to learn).The economics… Continue reading

August 15 2008 | By Brian | Tagged: audiobook, business, education, happiness, life, marketing, negotiation, networking, school, speed-reading, success, time-management | 111 comments»

5 Simple Steps To Be Happy — Finally

Happiness -- the often elusive, but always desired state of being. The reason why we're not always happy is simply because we aren't always present to the miracle of life. Millions of years after the creation of the Universe, and then the earth, after Homo sapien evolved out of monkeys, our sperm had to jump through hoops in order to be the one out of millions. That's one reason… Continue reading

June 2 2008 | By Alex | Tagged: happiness, self-improvement | 14 comments»

Happiness at Work – 12 Simple Ways to Make it Happen!

If you are a relatively junior employee at your company, though you carry out a very important role, you may not always be recognised. You might also face some of the following challenges:

Little fulfilment at work
Long working hours
Conflicting demands on your time and loyalty
Little balance between personal life and work commitments
Tight deadlines
Time management pressures
Strained relationships with the important people in your life
Tight personal finances
Lack of any say at

April 11 2008 | By Arvind | Tagged: delegation, eating, fun, happiness, health, Productivity, time_management, work, work-life balance | 18 comments»

Small Projects Generate Good Feelings

Small projects are the best way to generate good feelings. Go ahead and create a small project, whether it be a shoe box diorama birthday present to a friend or even washing the dirty dishes. After you finish the project, take notice of how you feel after you finish it. You can't deny the positive feelings that come along with finishing a small project. If You… Continue reading

March 12 2008 | By Karl | Tagged: happiness, play, Productivity, Projects | 7 comments»

Exploring Happiness

I know, I know; I’m either stupid or brave to even think about tackling this topic. Alright, we’ll go with stupid.Before I start today’s chat, let me say that I know there is no ‘answer’ or consensus to this discussion. No sh*t Sherlock. I’m not stupid enough to think there might exist one universal standard or school of thought when it comes to this topic, perhaps just a bunch… Continue reading

February 28 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: happiness, Lifehack, personal-development, self-help, self-improvement | 17 comments»

Job Satisfaction: Can You Love the One You’re With Before You Move On?

Have you ever noticed how jobs are like love affairs? You hit a bump in the road, even a patch of bumps, and there you are, climbing in bed with the statistics and making the livelihood you love all wrong. One day you wake up and say something like, "This job is just not giving me what I want; it's not fun or challenging or collaborative anymore." And you… Continue reading

February 18 2008 | By Lisa | Tagged: career, happiness, job-satisfaction, work | 6 comments»

6 Lessons on Making Smooth Transitions in Life

Last week I started working on my new job as a lecturer. The job is pretty flexible, but it takes quite a lot of time for preparation, especially because I'm relatively new to some subjects. Since I'm still adapting to the pace, my life was pretty disorganized. I couldn't do my morning ritual as it should, and I didn't even have enough time to write for my blog. It's… Continue reading

February 8 2008 | By Donald | Tagged: happiness, life, planning, work-life | 9 comments»

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