Six Tips for Happiness

Six Tips for Happiness
Advice from Tal Ben-Shahar.

1. Give yourself permission to be human. When we accept emotions -- such as fear, sadness, or anxiety -- as natural, we are more likely to overcome them. Rejecting our emotions, positive or negative, leads to frustration and unhappiness.

2. Happiness lies at the intersection between pleasure and meaning. Whether at work or at home, the goal is to engage in activities that are both personally significant and enjoyable. When this is not feasible, make sure you have happiness boosters, moments throughout the week that provide you with both pleasure and meaning.

3. Keep in mind that happiness is mostly dependent on our state of mind, not on our status or the state of our bank account. Barring extreme circumstances, our level of well being is determined by what we choose to focus on (the full or the empty part of the glass) and by our interpretation of external events. For example, do we view failure as catastrophic, or do we see it as a learning opportunity?

4. Simplify! We are, generally, too busy, trying to squeeze in more and more activities into less and less time. Quantity influences quality, and we compromise on our happiness by trying to do too much.

5. Remember the mind-body connection. What we do -- or don't do -- with our bodies influences our mind. Regular exercise, adequate sleep, and healthy eating habits lead to both physical and mental health.

6. Express gratitude, whenever possible. We too often take our lives for granted. Learn to appreciate and savor the wonderful things in life, from people to food, from nature to a smile.

The Wonders of Nature.

08:39 03/28/2007

I came into work today and saw a crow flying about all crazy like. I looked closer and noticed the crow had not suffered from dementia, but rather was attempting to protect a nest(?) from being attacked by a band of marauding squirrels! It was pretty neat. The crow was sitting on a limb of the tree and an instant later, he leaned forward and fell off the limb head first and dove to what I assume was a ground attack of some kind.

It was like something you would see on National Geographic on eagles only I was watching it for real, in the wilderness next to my office. How cool is nature?

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Stars Raise Money for Obama

Wednesday, February 21, 2007
BY: WENN

A galaxy of stars including George Clooney, STEVEN SPIELBERG and Eddie Murphy helped raise $1.3 million at a fundraiser for Democrat US Presidential hopeful BARACK OBAMA last night (20FEB07).

The event at a hotel in Beverly Hills, California was organised by Spielberg and his Dreamworks studio co-founders JEFFREY KATZENBERG and DAVID GEFFEN.

Other celebrities in attendance included singer/songwriter JACKSON BROWNE.
Obama told the audience, "Don't sell yourselves short; you are the storytellers of our age."

YOU KNOW YOU LIVE IN 2006, WHEN...

1. You accidentally enter your ATM PIN on the microwave.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your four closest friends.

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.

6. You go home after a long day at work and still answer the phone in a business manner.

7. You make phone calls from home and accidentally dial "9" to get an outside line.

8. You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.

10. You learn about your redundancy on the 11 o'clock news.

11. Your boss doesn't have the ability to do your job.

12. You use your mobile phone from your drive way to see if anyone can help you carry in groceries.

13. Everything has a web site associated with it..

14. Leaving the house without your mobile phone is a cause for panic and you go back to get it.

15. You go online first thing in the morning before getting your coffee.

16. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :)

17. You're reading this, nodding and laughing.

18. Worse? You know exactly to whom you are going to forward this to.

19. You are too busy to notice there was no number 9 on this list.

20. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a number 9 on this list.

ICE your cell phone (Not a Joke) - This is a very logical, simple, and doctor tested way to have your Cell Phone Help Save Your LIFE

-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Frazier [mailto:sfrazier@resolutions.ws]
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 11:14
To: sfrazier@resolutions.ws
Subject: ICE in your cell phone

Got this from my cousin yesterday. It sounds like a good idea.

Susan

Paramedics will turn to a victim's cell phone for clues to that person's

identity. You can make their job much easier with a simple idea that they

are trying to get everyone to adopt: ICE.

ICE stands for In Case of Emergency. If you add an entry in the contacts

list in your cell phone under ICE, with the name and phone no. of the

person that the emergency services should call on your behalf, you can save

them a lot of time and have your loved ones contacted quickly. It only

takes a few moments of your time to do.

Paramedics know what ICE means and they look for it immediately. ICE your

cell phone NOW!

Please pass this one along

NUMBER 1-Tuesday 30-Nov-2004-15:26

So this marks the start of yet another electronic journal. Oneday I might get all them together.