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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 7 unique ways to make someone smile
- Do you want to put a smile on someone's face? Maybe make their day a little bit brighter? It doesn't have to take much time or money on your part. In fact, many things can be done as a part of your normal routine and cost little or nothing. You won't know how many people are encouraged by your kindness because smiles are contagious. Try out one or more of these 7 ways today to put smiles on their ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The gift is in the giving
- I have to be honest. I made the woman cashier at BIG! LOTS cry. I had shopped and gathered three baskets full together at the check out line and she just kept saying "This is so emotional". I just kept encouraging her by acknowledging that she was playing an important part in making a lot of people very happy, that she was participating in an essential act of charity.I rarely make...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - There is a cure for the summertime blues
- I have never lived anywhere else where when you walk outside in the summer you not only feel like you have walked into a sauna, you also want to change your shirt after just walking from your car to your office (Tallahassee).At the same time, I really can't imagine ever living anywhere else. I'm not so much complaining as I am pointing out that these 4-H days (hot, humid, hazy, and one hund...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Have you ever tasted the fruit of pure happiness?
- Have you ever been really happy? Have you ever tasted the fruit of pure happiness? Have you ever completed a task with that feeling of YES! I gave it my all. I'm really happy and proud with what I've done. Have you ever had that inner glow and outer radiation? But was it happiness?You see, most of us have replaced happiness with pleasure. Pleasure is those times when you feel terrific like ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Poetic romance
- Romance is conveyed in so many different ways.One less commonly used is the medium of poetry. Sometimes words penned on the page put across our feelings to someone else so deeply that we are moved to tears. Moved to compassion. Moved to passion in ways we would never before have thought possible. And yet, we find ourselves feeling as we have never felt. Holding as we have never embraced bef...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Acts of kindness benefit everyone
- Do you really want to be happy? Everyone says yes, but the gateway to happiness makes some of us frown. The gateway to happiness, is giving to others. Think about this: "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." - The Dalai LamaSome of us may feel that, if we give too much, our generosity, will be taken advantage of by others. This i...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - But i bought all the books and tapes, and im still unhappy!
- I love this quote by Zig Ziglar, and think it's a perfect introduction to this article:"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing- that's why we recommend it daily."The same thing can be said for all the different techniques that lead to happiness.Often you will hear people say,- "I tried affirmations, and they didn't work....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Love is all you need
- Boiled down to all of our essence, all we really want is to be loved...by our spouses, by our family, by the people we work with, by everyone. The key to being loved by all of these people is actually quite simple: love yourself first!So how do you love yourself, why don't we love ourselves and why is this all you need? Let me start with the last question first: why is all we need to love o...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The underestimated power of kindness
- It was a bright Saturday morning in the late fall. I had stopped at a cafe' to enjoy a cup of coffee and scan the morning newspaper. Suddenly, I felt a hand on the back of my jacket and heard someone say, "Hey Steve! How ya doin'?"Looking up, I saw a boy wearing a mechanic's uniform worn by employees of the gasoline station next to the cafe'. He looked familiar, but, at first, I was unable ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Getting out of dodge
- The freeway was relatively clear. It was early in the morning as we rushed in south-southwest direction out of town. The lights of the city were still burning brightly at this early hour of the morning, but they became smaller and farther away as we raced off in our chosen direction....to freedom!!And so it is.Every once in a while we just need to get out of town. Anyone out there ol...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The golden moments in life
- This month I'm going to talk about something I've never discussed before. I'll be sharing a technique with you that can help you become a powerful beacon, attracting all the good things in life to you easily and effortlessly. I call it the Attraction Process. Hang on. It's powerful and it works.Last week the Manifesting Made Easy teleclass group completed with our last call. Always, with ev...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Authentic happiness
- EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE - how to build positive emotions for extraordinary and happy life.Did you know that you can increase your happiness and life satisfaction?According to Dr. Seligman from the University of Pennsylvania, founder of the Positive Psychology movement, there are 3 types of happy life: pleasant life, good life and meaningful life. Commonality between these areas of hap...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Ten ways to eliminate guilt from your life
- 1. Say "Yes" Only When You Want ToYou want to please everyone, but you end up disappointed in yourself. Don't say "Yes" unless you absolutely want to. If someone tries to make you feel bad about it, remember that they are more concerned about their own agenda.2. Think Before You SpeakBefore you communicate, think about what you are going to say. Make sure y...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Most of your unhappiness in life is due to...
- I want to share with you today one of those great moments, when you suddenly experience a life changing burst of clarity. When suddenly the answer you're searching for becomes so obvious ? it's right there in front of you, and all you can say is "Wow! Why didn't I realise that before?"This was the first of several moments of awakening for me, following my breakdown in early Januar...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Life purpose: how to be in love with life
- Falling In Love with LifeThere is no feeling in the world like the feeling of energized, on purpose living.Have you ever been in love? You smile easily, you lie in bed for a little longer in the morning letting yourself dream and everything you do seems to have more color, more depth. That's a lot how it is when your life is doing what you know it should be.You fall in love wi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Self confidence, happiness, and posture
- Our use of body posture plays a key role in how we feel. When we are feeling "down", our bodies show this by hunching the shoulders, we stare at the floor, our heads hang forward. When we are seated we tend to be slumped rather than relaxed. Our walk is more of a shuffle, speech is slow and quiet.Compare this to how we feel when on an "up". Shoulders back, eyes forward, head held high and s...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What the bleep are you so happy about?
- Could you stand to have a lot more happiness in your life? I've tried all kinds of self-help techniques and have suddenly found much more happiness and fun than ever before. It's fast, it's easy, and you can see results within a week. I was inspired by two sources: the movie, "What the Bleep Do We Know," and the Laugh Doctor, Dr. Cliff Kuhn. To find more happiness, let's take a look at F...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - In pursuit of happiness
- In pursuit of happiness, what will we do as women? Whatever we possibly can. We want to do things for ourselves, but always put others before us. What's the result of this? Resentment.....we start resenting our spouses, kids, family, etc.., but never stopped to take a look to see why we deferred our dreams.Women it is time that you started thinking for yourselves....not allowing your spouse...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - It costs nothing to smile
- I like to be around positive people, people who tend to be happy, who look on the bright side of life. Far too many people walk around in what seems like a depressed state. Come on people, it costs nothing to smile.I must admit, I used to be one of the ones who walked around in a depressed state. I had many things on my mind, many things I was not happy with, I used to feel so sorry for mys...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Happiness and health are the two most important things in life
- The world is becoming obsessed with money and all things material. From the size of your house, the type of car and even where you travel on your holidays, some people are trying to go one better do their friends and family.For me these people are quite sad. I have a friend who is similar to the people above, he is always thinking of money, always talking about money. How to earn it, how to...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 4 steps to use fears as friends: don?t be a thunder dog!
- Imagine humungous, bulbous, billowing alto-cumulus clouds building higher and higher in the sky. They are as black as tar at the bottom and snowy white at the top. It looks as if we're in for a storm.CRACK, rumble, rumble, rumble. Use your imagination folks. That's thunder, not a malfunction of my keyboard.My black and white Border Collie, Tip, catapults from her slumbe...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - May the budgie of happiness sit on your head
- My grandmother, Mimi, was a great solitaire player. My family legacy is mainly memories, so I especially cherish my few tangible mementos. Especially a photograph of Mimi, when she was in her mid-70's, sitting at the kitchen table, solitaire game in progress and a small green "budgie" (aka parakeet in this country) atop her head.You need to realize that my grandmother was a lady. ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What does it take to be happy?
- What does it take to be happy? In our age of consumerism many will likely tell you that in order to be happy you have to keep up with the trends, or as they used to say in the 50's and 60's "you must keep up with the Jones's".I think it is clear that if this were a solution to your unhappiness you likely would not have been drawn to this article. You see, the fact that you are reading this ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - You need to start to like yourself
- If you have a very low self esteem or a lack of self-confidence you may be seeking help to gain extra confidence.I was somebody who had a severe confidence crisis from the ages of four until the age of around twenty two.At the age of twenty two I started on a mission of self improvement and to try to make myself increase happiness levels in my own life.I started reading variou...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to make your own happiness
- Happiness comes to a person when it is caused by something, such as the person achieving a much-desired goal. Happiness also comes when the person recognizes something of value - seeing children playing together joyfully makes the parent happy. Happiness can be caused by expectation of future good fortune, as the happiness of a couple in a romantic relationhship. Happiness has causes. It can be ha...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 10 tips for living the life of your dreams
- Why Are You Here?When I ask this question, I'm not inquiring why you are in the location you're in, or why you are in the city you're in, or even why you are in whatever country you're in.I ask the question, because I'm wondering why you exist at all?In the fall of 2003, I released a book I wrote called The Why Are You Here Café. It is a fiction story of a man...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Free tips to improve self confidence
- 1. DRUNK!At the age of sixteen I was invited out for the evening on a Saturday night to celebrate a friend's birthday. This for most people would be something to look forward to, for me it was something to dread. Socialising and ordering drinks for somebody who has a stutter is bad enough, but I regularly seemed to bare the brunt of the evening's jokes about me height, weight and occasional...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A shortcut to happiness -- vote with live 8
- Did you see any of the Live 8 performances in support of stopping poverty in Africa? Here's your chance to create a shortcut to your own happiness by voting to help others. You can support the creation of the happiness of survival for them.The Live 8 stated goal is to cancel poverty, beginning with eliminating death by starvation and polluted water.There are times when life hands us ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A model of happiness
- Everyone I've ever met considers happiness to be desirable. There is a whole wing of psychology called "positive psychology" studying things like happiness. One of the luminaries of this field is Dr. Martin Seligman, who wrote both Learned Optimism and Authentic Happiness. His group publishes a newsletter called Authentic Happiness Coaching Newsletter.The most recent issue of this newslette...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Keeping you confident!
- We can all be confident when we are sure of ourselves and knowledgeable about the situation in which we find ourselves. But what happens when we are not so sure and when we are forced to step outside our comfort zone? What happens to our thinking?First we need to control our thinking then we need to develop techniques for remaining confident in a wide variety of scenarios and to catch ourse...