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The Sad Road to Happy: How Opening Pandora’s Box Can Be a Happy Gift
Ever notice just how much our culture lauds happiness as a virtue? Shiny smiling appearances, personable extroverts – they seem to get the personal and professional rewards. But what if you’re not Little Miss Sunshine? And is that happiness even real? A recent UC Berkely study says it’s not! This study looked at the connection […]
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If You’re Happy and You Know It Go Get Mad: How Anger Leads to Lasting Happiness
Happiness is The Goal, these days more than ever. Joy, Gratitude, Peace, Happiness… the buzzwords are everywhere. There are funny blogs about them, hilariously crass meditation parodies (warning: not for the easily offended), tongue-in-cheek memes. But it’s not just buzz and parody… there’s actually something to it. We’re wired to feel. Feelings are at the […]
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Birds of a Feather: Creating Happy Connections
Turns out, Barbara Streisand had it right. Well, almost: People. People who need people…are the HAPPIEST people in the world. Lucky, too, it’s true – because the friendships we build offer a sense of belonging, increase our self worth, and give us a feeling of security. In short, they hold us up when we need […]
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From Oops to Awesome: How Mistakes Can Make or Break You
The sweetest victory is the one that’s most difficult. That goal or dream that requires you to reach down deep, to fight with everything you’ve got. And in that moment of reaching you don’t know if your best will be enough. It’s not the failures that are in the history books, the novels, the adventure […]
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