TIPs — Tim’s Interesting Picks
Each Sunday, I list some interesting things I found on the Web during the previous week:
Poor sleep impacts health and happiness
Predicting future happiness made easy
Way To Happiness Rediscovered Through Science
Finding joy when the world has gone dark
Four life lessons that bring happiness
The Guaranteed Prescription for Happiness
To your happiness!
Tags: Happiness
People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. That’s what it’s all finally about, and that’s what these clues help us to find within ourselves.
–Joseph Campbell
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For many of us (me included), our days are spent with a computer in front of us or close by. Whether we’re working or “relaxing” we often spend hours on the computer – typing, clicking, reading, typing, clicking, reading . . .
It becomes a constant state of activity and the only time we actually relax is when we take an all too infrequent vacation.
A new website challenges you to do absolutely nothing for 2 minutes. That’s right. Nothing.
No clicking. No typing. No reading.
Just relax and listen to the sounds of the waves and look at a beautiful picture.
Give it a try: Do Nothing For 2 Minutes
To your happiness!
Tags: Happiness, Peace & Tranquility
TIPs — Tim’s Interesting Picks
Each Sunday, I list some interesting things I found on the Web during the previous week:
Moderate stress can make us happier
Happiness: A Feeling or a Mindset?
Ted Leonsis – How He Found Happiness By Creating a Life List
To your happiness!
Tags: Happiness
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” -Mark Twain
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What makes a happy country? Or really, what makes the people in that country happy?
To try to determine this, London-based Legatum Institute spent five years measuring the “prosperity” index for 90% of the people in the world.
Legatum’s 2010 Prosperity Index ranked 110 countries on 89 variables.
Forbes has more details in an article called The World’s Happiest Countries.
You might also want to take a look at In Pictures: The World’s 10 Happiest Countries.
To your happiness!
Tags: Happiness
TIPs — Tim’s Interesting Picks
Each Sunday, I list some interesting things I found on the Web during the previous week:
People Neglect Who They Really Are When Predicting Their Own Future Happiness
Instant happiness booster: walking with focus
Happiness comes by limiting our desires
Finding Your Door To Happiness. And Opening It
Health and Happiness Through Smile Therapy
To your happiness!
Tags: Happiness
I play the lottery sometimes. Like most people who play, I imagine what it would be like to win millions of dollars. So far, I haven’t had to make any decisions about how to use all that money.
For some people, they’ve been “lucky” enough to have to make that decision. However, according to this article from CNN it hasn’t always been a lucky thing for some of those folks:
Winning the lottery: Does it guarantee happiness?
One of the things I found interesting in that article is the idea that spending money on experiences brings more happiness than buying material things.
From my experience, that is true. Not that I’ve had millions to spend on experiences, but I’ve gained much more long-term happiness from the things I’ve done, than the things I’ve bought.
For example, I can think back to a Disney World vacation I took with some of my family in 2008. Thinking about the fun we had together still brings a smile to my face. If you ask me about something I bought in 2008 that brought me happiness, I wouldn’t be able to think of a thing.
Whether you win a pile of money or not, before you buy something, think about whether it truly will make you happy. If it’s only momentary happiness it might be a good idea to use that money toward something that will bring you happiness over a long time.
To your happiness!
TIPs — Tim’s Interesting Picks
Each Sunday, I list some interesting things I found on the Web during the previous week:
Gratitude, Happiness and 1000 Awesome Things
Why happiness has such a profound effect on life
I can make you HAPPY: Make happiness a habit
8 Happiness Hacks To Get You Through January
Create More Happiness In Your Life
To your happiness!
Tags: Happiness
No matter how calm and happy we are there are always times when we feel stress in our lives.
Sometimes that stress is good and pushes us forward to improve our lives. For example, if you feel stress over your financial situation, it can help push you forward to finding a new job or an additional source of income.
But, for many of us, stress can take over and rule our lives.
In an article titled Fight stress, positively: Dalai Lama, His Holiness offers some tips on reducing our stress.
As I’ve written before, I often worry about things over which I have no control. The Dalai Lama offers this advice:
One of the approaches that I personally find useful is to cultivate the thought: If the situation or problem is such that it can be remedied, then there is no need to worry about it. In other words, if there is a solution or a way out of the difficulty, you do not need to be overwhelmed by it. The appropriate action is to seek its solution. Then it is clearly more sensible to spend your energy focusing on the solution rather than worrying about the problem. Alternatively, if there is no solution, no possibility of resolution, then there is also no point in being worried about it, because you cannot do anything about it anyway. In that case, the sooner you accept this fact, the easier it will be for you. This formula, of course, implies directly confronting the problem and taking a realistic view. Otherwise you will be unable to find out whether or not there is a resolution to the problem.
To your happiness!
Tags: Happiness, Peace & Tranquility
