happiness
Happiness, defined; things that help you find happiness, keep it, and share it with others.
The Psychological Reason Why You Should Never Play the Lottery
I was an avid lottery player. I couldn’t see a downside; a couple of quid a week and the chance to win once in a while, maybe even hit the jackpot. It'd run the numbers and it was worth the gamble, or so I thought.
By Jamie Jackson5 years ago in Motivation
Be Energized by Your Passion
I feel that everyone has a purpose in life on Earth! Whether it is showing generosity towards people by volunteering at a nursing home or homeless shelter, homemade baking goods for community, or maybe it is singing in a choir. Whatever your purpose is, use your gift and walk in your assignment! Now that you have identified your goal and skill answer this question: “What am I passionate about?” I love this question because it brings joy and happiness to my heart! When someone asks that question, you should be able to pour out everything within you that makes your heart tickle a little bit!
By That Riverz Gurl 5 years ago in Motivation
Happiness Is A Choice
I don't think there would be one person in the world who would say they would love to live their life in unhappiness. Each and every one of us want to experience joy, satisfaction, enjoyment, and fulfillment, but not just in spurts, we want to feel that happiness on an ongoing basis, in all aspects of life. We also have to be realistic and understand that life will continually heave challenges and adversities upon us, but once we discover true happiness in our life, we have that positive mindset and attitude to, not just accept such times will happen, but also to openly embrace them and be proactive in overcoming them. The big questions are, how do we discover this happiness, and does such happiness even exist? Well the answer to the second question is yes, it does exist. The secret to happiness rests within our mind. No matter how many, or what, suggestions and recommendations myself, or other motivational speakers, life coaches, positive minded, or already genuinely happy individuals, offer you, no one can bring you happiness. Happiness is generated from our own individual thoughts, perceptions, beliefs, and choices, which of course all start from the mind. Happiness is a choice! With all the negativity in the world, which contributes to why so many negative minded and pessimistic people surround us, combined with all the adversities and stresses that we have to deal with in life, our mindset and attitude will constantly be tested. There is no reprieve basically. Therefore, it leaves us with a choice of two options. The first is to allow that negativity, adversity, and stress to consume us, and draw us into constantly feeling unhappy, miserable, negative minded, and pessimistic, which will never get us anywhere in life, let alone bring us happiness. The second option is to remain positive minded, to focus on the positive aspects of our life, to remain goals driven, to be optimistic, to continually believe in ourselves, to be proactive in overcoming all adversities we encounter, and to actually concentrate on finding happiness within life. We can't be happy if we choose not to be happy, it's that simple! Happiness indeed starts within the mind, but today I am going to enlighten you on five different ways to encourage happiness into your life, so you can live a life of satisfaction and fulfillment.
By David Stidston5 years ago in Motivation
Life lessons everyone must learn before attaining 30s to be free from unwanted stress.
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ―C. S. Lewis Arriving in your thirties accompanies a feeling of pride and achievement. You more likely took in some things throughout the long term, and these imperative exercises will always show importance.
By Ashmeen Kaur5 years ago in Motivation
You Are
Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees. I have been wondering to myself lately what that really means. The first thought was you are concentrating your focus on just one thing, a tree; so you can't see the whole picture, the forest. That lead me to any number of inquiries like; what if you are looking at a bunch of trees? What determines the borders of any particular forest? How many trees actually make up a forest? Are there forests in heaven that provide oxygen for God? Ok now my stream of consciousness is digressing so I'll get to my point. My point is I have no regrets. There's no point. It took me a long time to get here; allow me to explain if I possibly can.
By robert rowe5 years ago in Motivation
If You Don't Know Where You're Going .... Any Road Will Take You There
This morning is 7 degrees and it's cold it's feels like -4 degrees and you know, sorry, I'm just having a very very brief walk out. I feel less pressure now that I've reduced my daily target from 11000 steps to 7000 steps. I’ve now dropped the million steps and I feel like I can turn around and go back at any time which is good because I'm still walking still going out but it's great when you can do something to remove pressure
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 5 years ago in Motivation
Turn the page
This isn’t embarrassing so much as it is a No Regrets. The last 20 yrs have been a nightmare. I was married and started having children young. Choices I made as a rebellious teen forced me into a position of “Following through.” I’d made my bed and so I’d have to lay in it. In 9 years I’d married and had 4 children. The last a traumatic delivery that turned my world upside down. My marriage already a difficult one, filled with alcoholism, verbal and emotional abuse and trying to cope with raising children, constant financial stress and life’s regular hardships, was thrown into a tailspin that spiraled downhill for the next 15 yrs of my life. My 4th child suffered massive brain damage at birth and required 24/7 medical care his entire life until his death a month shy of his 15th birthday. My marriage slowly fell apart as we each dealt with those 15yrs in a different manner. While I remained eternally optimistic, making lemonade out of lemons. My husband took the lemons and added vodka. His drinking became unbearable as did the fighting and emotional abuse I suffered. But I stuck it out fir the sake of my children. They were going through the emotional roller coaster of their brothers disabilities and traumatic life and the changes and affect it had on our family right along with me. The last thing I wanted was to remove their father from their everyday life in top of it. Because despite how our marriage was, he was a good father. But after my son died, after my two oldest had moved out and were following their dreams, things really went down hill. The fighting had stopped but so had our words. My husband and I would go days without acknowledging each other’s existence. We slept apart and hardly spoke. I’d been dealing with PTSD and depression and anxiety since my sons birth but for a short time after his death it became very dark. Then my daughter who was entering her senior year of high school became unhinged herself. She was diagnosed Bipolar with manic episodes of depression, anxiety and anger. And working through it with her, helping her cope and get through her own mental issues, woke me up to my own. I was miserable. Unhappy and tired of being that way. There was no marriage to fight for. It had died out years before. When we did speak it turned into vicious arguments. And when my son died, with him my excuse for not moving on died too. So I started to make plans. I got a job, my own car and my own banking accounts. I got my shit together. My daughter was begging me to leave and take her with me. She’d endured her own mental hell and the tension between her father and I had reached epic proportions. If my life was going to change, if I was going to find the happy woman I once was, it was going to be now or never.
By Sarah Elizabeth 5 years ago in Motivation
Why are we unhappy even if we have everything?| MindfulStack
Today we will explain why so many people nowadays can’t be happy, even if they basically have everything. Let’s face it, the Western way of life is relatively free and pleasant, albeit with all its limitations and downsides.
By Manuel Alonge5 years ago in Motivation
Merlot and Me
The day I met Jack was the day I remembered why the river has always ran through my blood and why a deep red merlot from Bright Cellars was my favorite wine. A name means everything and mine suited me perfectly. Samantha Maplegood. But I was over being good. So why did I decide to spend my first week on summer break at a monastery in the muggy South with few luxuries and even less visitors. Because nothing I ever did made sense or was what I really wanted to do. I’d lived for other people and now was ready to let my inner she-wolf do some howling.
By Michele Zirkle5 years ago in Motivation
The Secrets to Rapid Manifestation:
https://bit.ly/2Qw4Ed4 The Secrets to Rapid Manifestation: Prosperity as a Soul State Prosperity is truly a mental condition. A state of mind in which one feels content and happy. When you feel and respect your inner experience, it manifests in the world around you. Prosperity isn't just about how much money you have. It includes your level of abundance in life, love, relationships, and happiness. You are not really successful if you have financial success but no love or happiness. All has to be balanced.
By ANGELO POBLETE5 years ago in Motivation
