M J RyanRyan, M. J. (1999). Attitudes of gratitude: How to give and receive joy every day of your life. Berkeley, CA: Conari Press.
One way to squeeze more joy out of everyday pleasures is simply to look at them closely and learn to talk about them in more detail. It’s a dead simple move that makes the things you already love instantly even more enjoyable.
One good way to find a few useful, life-improving and time-tested tips is to look back. To look way back through history. To find ideas that have arisen in minds over and over the last few thousand years. Here are seven such ideas about how you can find happiness. Maybe you’ll fin...
Staying happy and in a good mood-both in everyday life and during tough times-is not about ignoring reality or chasing constant joy. It’s about cultivating positive habits, perspectives, and practices. Happiness is a choice, and every day offers a new opportunity to make that cho...
That way, you save eight minutes every half hour, so in the course of two hours of watching TV, you find 32 minutes to exercise.Which is true. You know another way to find 32 minutes to exercise? Don't watch two hours of TV a day, right?
And you’ll be able to stay present more easily, to focus on each thing you do andto find a simple joy or stillness in it. Do that instead of increasing your stress right away and getting stuck in worries or though loops about what may happen today before you even have had your break...
So one day I walked into the office of my high school guidance counselor,and I told him about all the exciting plans that were coming together in my mind. I told him how I wanted to move to the great city of Chicago, where my brother was living at the time, and start a whole new...
Don’t spread your resources too thin, sprinkling a little joy here and there. Instead, go all in on a couple of moments that no one will forget.Take people out of the everydayRecently, I was invited to speak at the Aspen Ideas Festival. And shortly after I arrived, I began to ...
In about January 2010, after yet another break-up with a man I thought I was going to marry, I had a major breakdown. Nothing in my life made sense any more. I didn’t know what to do or where to go for help. I was crying every day. Over something. Over nothing… I felt like...
In essence, if you quit thinking about your education on graduation day how are you going to keep up with this wonderful world, we live in? I believe that basically, no one quits learning. The learning process goes on every day.