Posts Tagged ‘happiness’

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

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April 11 2008 | By Arvind | Tagged: delegation, eating, fun, happiness, health, Productivity, time_management, work, work-life balance | 13 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.
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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

February 28 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: happiness, Lifehack, personal-development, self-help, self-improvement | 15 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

February 18 2008 | By Lisa | Tagged: career, happiness, job-satisfaction, work | 4 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

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

Getting Rid of Yesterday: How to Start Your Day Fresh

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes we start a day with the previous day still in mind. We think about the mistakes we made in the previous day, how things went wrong, and how we felt bad about it. No wonder it becomes difficult to focus on the current day. And since we cannot fully focus on the day… » Continue

October 30 2007 | By Donald | Tagged: attitude, effectiveness, energy, focus, happiness, life | 18 comments»

How to Be a Friend of Yourself

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt

We often focus on building relationships with others that we forget the essential first step: being friends of ourselves. That is the crucial first step if we are to have good relationships with others. How can we have good relationships with others if we don’t even have good relationship with… » Continue

October 17 2007 | By Donald | Tagged: attitude, happiness, life, relationship | 11 comments»

The Ten Videos to Change How You View the World

I believe that a sign of good information is that it makes you think. If reading a book, listening to a lecture or watching a video doesn’t change how you think, it probably isn’t that important. But if you encounter something that forces you to change your views, even if you don’t completely agree with it, you’ve found something valuable.

The problem is where do you find these… » Continue

October 16 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: games, happiness, humor, inspiration, linguistics, marketing, poverty, reality, Technology, video | 94 comments»

How to Be Happier with What You Have

“There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.” - Benjamin Franklin

Misery shouldn’t be the price for ambition. Somewhere I believe many people got the idea that to want more, you have to be dissatisfied with what you have now. Believing this, your choice is either to dampen your… » Continue

September 25 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: gratitude, habits, happiness, Lifehack, self-help | 15 comments»

The magic ingredient for a fulfilling life is . . .

“Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
And then thou must be damned perpetually.
Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,
That time may cease, and midnight never come.”
Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus

You’re on the beach of your dreams, under a sunset that flares with every color you can call to mind, plus a few you can’t even name. You’re listening to music that sets your body and soul tingling with… » Continue

September 24 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: enjoyment, happiness, life, Lifestyle, living | 9 comments»

How to Enjoy What You Are Doing No Matter What

Ideally, we can choose to always do what we love without ever needing to think about the things we don’t like. That, unfortunately, is not the case in real world. There are times when we need to do something we don’t like.

Just think of the time when you were in school or college. While there were some modules you liked, there were usually also some… » Continue

September 19 2007 | By Donald | Tagged: attitude, happiness, life, motivation | 27 comments»

Thirteen Tricks to Motivate Yourself

Who needs Tony Robbins when you can motivate yourself? Overcoming the emotional hurdle to get stuff done when you’d rather sit on the couch isn’t always easy. But unless calling in sick and waking up at noon have no consequences for you, it’s often a must.

For those of you who never procrastinate, distract yourself or drag your feet when you should be doing something important, this article… » Continue

September 13 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: emotion, enthusiasm, happiness, Lifehack, motivation, procrastination, Productivity | 74 comments»

6 Factors Besides Salary That Boost Happiness

Money is obviously an important factor when one considers issues like quality of life but it may not be the only thing. I find that those who describe themselves as “happy” are not always wealthy but have integrated other balancing strategies in their lives, placing income within a larger picture of work-life balance. It turns out that the Wall Street Journal agrees with this… » Continue

August 28 2007 | By Mike | Tagged: happiness, Money, peace, salary | 12 comments»

Focusing on four simple questions can be the key to fulfillment

Why finding happiness at work may be less complicated that you think.

Everyone wants to be happy at work. Nearly everyone also wants to feel fulfilled by what they do. The Baby Boomer generation thought they could achieve both of these by hard work, long hours, and (hopefully) hard cash. Many people today are not so sure they were right.

Their conventional approach at least had the merit of being clearly… » Continue

August 6 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: happiness, life, relationship, workplace | 7 comments»

7 Lies That Are Holding You Back

Kathy Gates of RealLifeCoach.com wrote this piece for Ian’s Messy Desk. It outlines seven lies people tell themselves that are preventing them from doing what they really want to do.

This comes down to things like the job you keep or the money you’re trying to save. Are you being realistic? Selfish? Proactive? Which lies halt your progress?

Lie #6. Elusive Goals instead of Do-able Goals
An elusive goal is “save $5… » Continue

May 16 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: happiness, lie | 4 comments»

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