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  • Laughter, Play, Fun, Joy, Happiness  By : Jeanie Marshall
    discusses the value of these dynamics in our lives as a reminder to laugh and play in a spirit of fun and joy.
  • Feeling the Positive Opposite  By : Jeanie Marshall
    This is an empowering practice: to identify a not-good feeling and then identify its positive opposite. The positive opposite feeling is a place to move when feeling a not-wanted feeling.
  • Best Case Scenario  By : Jeanie Marshall
    Of course, the phrase "Best Case Scenario" is the positive opposite of the popular phrase "Worst Case Scenario."
  • Where do we find happiness?  By : PositiveArticles.Com
    Hundreds of thousands of people are at this very moment striving to become millionaires in order to be happy. At the same time, millions more are trying to achieve even just a small slice of fortune and wealth. And although many people do get to that stage of attainment of reaching success, in the end most of them regret the fact that they have devoted all their time and energy to seeking happiness through money.
  • How To Become Totally Positive - Right Now!  By : Jeff Griswold
    The best and quickest way to improve your life is simple: just
    think more positively.

    The goal of this brief article is to give you a few simple and
    practical techniques that will help you make positive thinking
    an automatic and permanent part of your life.
  • Single and thriving: 5 secrets for a happier, more fulfilling life  By : Jack Zavada
    Single people can make a noticeable improvement in their life by changing their perspective. Here are five tips that show how.
  • Why on earth are you here?  By : EG Teh
    Most of us live in a cycle of repetition – work, work and work. We never slow down and evaluate the purpose for our lives. We would rather accept what fate has handed out and not feed the huge vacuum in our souls.
  • Are you truly living the life you want to live?  By : Heather Redmond
    This article explains manifestation and the law of abundance. It describes how you have the power to manifest whatever you desire.
  • You CAN Shift Your Reality to Include More of What You Want  By : Carrie McLain
    You can make joy real for you by learning to shift your focus. Here is one method to get started with that gets results. Read on, then try it!
  • Choosing Happiness  By : Cheryl Hammer
    Ever heard someone say,”…so-in-so is great, but I’m just not happy?” Or have you ever wondered why you just couldn’t seem to find happiness? Read on to learn how you can choose to be happy.
  • Who Else Wants to Make Happiness a Habit?  By : Darren Hodgson
    Happiness doesn't just happen. You have to make it happen. If you're waiting around for it to come to you, expecting someone to bring it with them or waiting for something to happen before you can be happy you'll be waiting for a long while.
  • Getting Old or a New Beginning. Some Suggestions for Your Mid-Life Crisis  By : Douglas Alp
    What do you do when you realize that you are not as young as you used to be? Are you getting board wtih the same old day to day routine? Could this be a mid life crisis? Is there a way to create a little excitement in your life, jumpstart your life or do something that will light a fire in your soul and allow you the passion to really live?
  • 5 surprising sources of inspiration  By : Jack Zavada
    Inspiration is the spark that relights your fire of enthusiasm. Here are five unusual places where you can find inspiration.
  • 5 surefire ways to regain your enthusiasm  By : Jack Zavada
    If your enthusiasm for life has waned, these five simple activities will put the spark back.
  • Guilt-The Most Destructive Energy in the Universe  By : Evelyn Cole
    Article shows how guilt is a useless and destructive feeling that can and must be changed.
  • 5 Top Tips To Discover Your Dream  By : Christopher Green
    How To Discover Your True Life Purpose
  • Happiness Takes Work: 5 Choices To Create Happiness  By : Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
    All of us have met people who just seem to be happy most of the time. Perhaps you have assumed that these people are just naturally happy, or that they are the lucky people who have an easy life, or they had really loving parents. Most of the time, nothing could be farther from the truth.

    Happy people are making specific choices regarding their thinking and behavior. Happy people CONSCIOUSLY choose to think and behave in ways that result in happiness. Unhappy people are UN...
  • The roadmap to happiness  By : Jaco de Villiers
    You can create your own map of success. Happiness comes from within. People can not make you happy; things can not make you happy. It is in your choice you make. How many books have you read, professing the secret to success? I admit, I have read quite a number. Guess what? Stop trying to live a life without happiness.
  • How to Attract Personal Happiness  By : Margaret Stead
    A Networking Masterclass instruction from one of the original masters - Margaret Stead - teaches you two simple exercises to help you 'Master' fundamental networking skills - understanding others, developing rapport and practising empathy.
  • Pause - Yield - Choose: Your Three Powers for Happiness and Vitality  By : Tom Russell
    Here are three practical personal powers that are easy to apply and wonderful in their results. You can PAUSE instead of react. You can wisely YIELD instead of locking horns. You can CHOOSE a new course instead of staying in the same old rut. What's more, these are your powers now! Here is how to cultivate them.
  • Joy for June and DailyAffirm Positive Affirmations Day by Day  By : Jeanie Marshall
    This article provides an overview for the exploration of the theme of Joy in the month of June on the DailyAffirm Process. DailyAffirm offers this free process of positive affirmations day by day.
  • Tend To Your Own Happiness  By : Deanna Mascle -
    Many of us wish for more happiness. We want to lead happier, more fulfilling, lives, but the sad truth is that so many of us that wish for more happiness spend much more time tending the happiness of others than we do tending to our own happiness.

    Happiness does not simply happen. A person does not suddenly stumble across happiness. Happiness is the result of careful tending and a person who wishes to be happy must tend to their own happiness.

    Tending to your happiness ...
  • You Will Not Be Truly Satisfied Until You Do This...  By : Mohamed Tohami -
    Are you looking for satisfaction and fulfillment?

    To be satisfied and fulfilled you must do something you love to do. But it is not always easy to do that.

    You will find yourself drifted away from doing what you love and do other things to just make a living.

    You may be successful but not satisfied and your soul may be looking for something bigger to pursue.

    Without being clear about the reason why you are here in life you will not feel passionate about what you d...
  • Before You Receive, You Must Release  By : Sheri O. Zampelli, M.S., CCH
    A fun and freeing idea to help you let go of anything that blocks you from happiness and success.
  • The Prize Isn't Always in the Bottom of the Box  By : Tony Masiello
    What would you do to get to the prize? Allow yourself to enjoy the journey along the way.
  • Seven Keys To Happiness  By : Kim Olver
    This article summarizes much of what I’ve learned thus far on my journey to self-discovery and positive growth. Along the way, through many of life’s ups and downs, with the help of many awesome teachers and mentors, I now most often live in a state of happiness and contentment. I still have lots to learn but I wanted to share with you what I’ve found most helpful thus far. I truly believe that all people have the capacity to choose their mental attitude. Therefore, if happin...
  • Attracting And Experiencing Abundance And Happiness  By : Chuck Danes
    You Really Were Created To Experience Fulfillment In Each And Every Area Of Your Life!

    Do You Feel That Abundance and Happiness Is Reserved For Only A Fortunate Few? Would You Like To Discover The Steps That Will Allow You To Experience It?

    Here They Are.
  • Where Does "True and Lasting Happiness" Really Come From?  By : Chuck Danes
    True Happiness
    What Is It Really And Where Does It Come From? Can It Really Be Achieved? You’re About To Find Out.
  • Enlightenment is not just one state  By : Shen Gerald
    My opinion is that enlightenment is not just one state but is a progressive and gradual establishing of states of consciousness.
  • Reap Your Own Happiness  By : Deanna Mascle -
    One of my favorite expressions is that "you reap what you sow". While I often hear it used negatively by someone who expects some "chickens to come home to roost" I prefer to think of it as something positive. How comforting to think that all our hard work and toil will be rewarded with a crop of something good? How wonderful to think that putting love and care into some project or person will indeed be rewarded.

    Of course, while most Americans give lip service to the noti...
  • How To Create A Happiness Habit  By : drmary
    Are you frequently in a bad mood or just plan unhappy? There are easy ways to beat the blues or even a bad day. Good moods or a peppy personality is not a disposition you are born with or without. You are not doomed to stay unhappy the rest of your life. Your level of happiness is a learned skill. It’s easy to learn. Do you want to improve your mood or become more happy and optimistic? This article will help you get happy.
  • 7 Keys for Joyful Living!  By : Chris Widener
    Joy can be yours! Look for it, pursue it and enjoy it!
  • What are you really missing out on?  By : The Self Improvement Gym
    We all long to experience the objects of our desire. Knowing simply isn't enough. We want to feel and we want to experience. Your world cannot be grasped by contemplation and knowledge alone, but only through action.
  • Being in the Awareness of Balance to Do What You Do More Joyously  By : Jeanie Marshall
    Do you sometimes feel out of balance? Or lacking in joy? This article focuses on the idea of making choices to draw more variety into your life. Joy comes with the balance of reflection/relaxation and action/forward movement.
  • Create Your Own Happiness by Being Bodacious  By : Mary Foley
    Finding the inspiration and motivation to live your life full out!
  • Time to Wake Up, Notice the Awakening  By : Jeanie Marshall
    Do you sometimes just not want to face the day? Waking up in the morning is a personal an varied as waking up to life or waking up to who you truly are in your magnificence. Wake up.
  • 3 Misconceptions About Happiness  By : Deanna Mascle -
    The sad truth is that there are a lot of unhappy people in the world. The tragic truth is that many of those unhappy people could lead happier lives if only they gave up the misconceptions they have about happiness. Even those of us who consider themselves relatively happy still cling to some of these untruths. Why? Probably because it is easier to blame someone else for our unhappiness when the simple fact is that no one else has power over our happiness. We give that power ...
  • Why Is Your Happiness Important  By : Deanna Mascle -
    Have you ever wondered where you fall on the happiness scale? Are most people happier or less happy than you are? According to a Scripps Howard/Ohio University survey of 1,007 U.S. adults, about 52 percent of Americans say they are "very happy" with their lives, with 43 percent reporting they are "fairly happy," 3 percent said they are "not too happy" and 2 percent undecided. In Britain, Gallup polls show that only 36 percent claim they are "very happy" which is down from 52%...
  • How to let go of grudges  By : Jack Zavada
    Holding a grudge is a self-punishing act. Author Jack Zavada shows how to let past hurts go, so you can live a bigger, better life.
  • A Formula For Happiness?  By : Deanna Mascle -
    Did you know that psychologists have now come up with a formula for happiness?

    They call themselves "positive psychologists" and led by Professor Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania, who has been described as the father of positive psychology, they have a formula for happiness.

    It is simply: Pleasure + engagement + meaning = happiness.

    I do not have a degree in psychology but I am a student of human kind and it seems to me that while it seems simplistic...
  • Can We Always Have Good Days?  By : Shen Gerald
    Can we always have good days? This is a question that most of us have at least pondered once in our lifetime... even if it is done subconsciously.
  • Seven Uplifting Strategies to Reawaken Your Joy and Passion for Life  By : Lauren Sullivan
    If you are suffering from burnout, disappointment, or feeling stuck in a life that’s not working for you, take heart! These seven stepping stones will guide you along an empowering path to renewed energy and zest for life.
  • You Can Be Happy Instantly  By : Patric Chan
    By being simple, you're able to achieve happiness. There are 4 ways to have a simple life that can ensure happiness and it's in your control to use these today.
  • Ten Tips For A Happy Life  By : Richard Gumsley
    These life coaching tips are in no particular order; they are just listed 1 - 10 for ease.

    1. Try stepping outside your comfort zone once in a while. One of the greatest barriers to achieving your potential is your comfort zone. As a life coach this is probably the number one area I focus on with clients. Great things happen when you make friends with your discomfort zone.

    2. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. There is an old saying that people who haven't made mistakes ...
  • Are You Happy, Joyous and Free?  By : Dr. Mitzi Lynton
    Dr. Mitzi Lynton expalins how if life is not showing up for you as you would like it to there is something you can choose to do to create more happiness, joy and freedom immediately.
  • Happiness Is About Freedom… Are You Free?  By : Piercarla Garusi
    The Dalai Lama, in his book The Art of Happiness, says that the very purpose of life is happiness, and I am sure you agree with that. And what is happiness?

    Happiness is about freedom and it begins in the mind…

    In order to be happy you need to be yourself, live by your values, be true to yourself and choose how you want to live; you need to know what you want, what makes you happy, so that you can create the life you want; you need to feel good about yourself and about ...
  • How to Stay in a Good Mood  By : Michael A. Verdicchio
    Have you ever noticed how easy it is for people to be happy, excited, and positive when things go well? At those times, it is easy to be in a good mood. But, can you be in a good mood when things are not going well?
  • Happiness: The Quest  By : Lambert Klein
    Have gratitude for friends and family, the home you live in, the food you eat. Isn't it great having air to breath, freedom to go where you want. Don't take these for granted but have gratitude and give thanks.
  • Countdown to Bliss  By : Aaron M. Potts
    Are you seizing every moment of your life and turning it into a chance to be filled with love and joy, or are you wishing away the ticks on the clock waiting for a chance to be happy?
  • Joy Is A Hard Sell  By : Gregory Anne Cox
    Joy is a deep but basic and always available emotion. This time of year the word is thrown around and I think, taken for granted. It's time to check in with ourselves and look for and enjoy the joy that is always there.

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