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Be Happy For No Reason – 5 Tips to Get You Started
What would it take to make you happy? A fulfilling career, a big bank account or the perfect mate? What if it didn’t take anything to make you happy? What if you could experience happiness from the inside out — no matter what’s going on in your life?
I can tell you that this is possible. […]
The Myth of More
One of the biggest Happiness Blockers in today’s world is what I call the Myth of More: that shared, insidious, and often unconscious belief that more toys, success and money means more happiness. In my research for my book Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out, I came upon […]
Velcro Vs. Teflon
In prehistoric days, when cavemen Ugh and his wife, Mrs. Ugh were trying to survive long enough to raise the baby Ughs, they had to pay more attention to potential threats than positive events to avoid dangers like being eaten by a saber-toothed tiger.
This selective attention to negativity is what allowed Mr. and Mrs. Ugh […]
Happy For No Reason
I was crammed in the back of an ancient flat-bed truck with 30 other Westerners, bumping down a rock-strewn dirt road heading toward the foothills of the Himalayas. We each had a bandanna covering our nose and mouth to keep us from choking on the dust as we made our way to a small, remote […]
The Blame Game
In my research for my book Happy for No Reason, which focuses on the core habits of unconditionally happy people, I discovered that one of the main ways we rob ourselves of happiness in life is feeling like a victim. Unfortunately, this habit can be very subtle and deeply ingrained. I first became aware of […]
Saying Your Thank-you’s
A few years ago, at a get-together of a dozen girlfriends from college, I saw my old friend, Therese Gibson. When I told her I was writing a book called Happy for No Reason, which focuses on the 21 core habits of unconditionally happy people, she told me about the daily gratitude ritual she practices […]
The Pursuit Of Happiness
Years ago, I taught a success seminar in which I asked the participants to take a big sheet of heavy paper and write across the top “100 THINGS TO BE, DO, HAVE.” They made three long columns and began listing their dreams, big and small. When they shared their goals afterwards, they were invariably all […]
Make Your Cells Happy
Being happy is not just a state of mind — it’s also a state of the body. What I found in my research for my book, Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out, is that our bodies are actually designed to support our happiness. Renowned neurophysiologist Dr. Candace Pert […]
