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Publisher Frances Lear said, ?I can sit next to a man who has on his other side a gorgeous twenty-five-year-old, and he?ll talk to me, because I?m much more interesting.? Why? ...

Happiness is different things to different people but there are common threads that run through the achievement of happiness for most people. These threads can be broken down into ...

As we all know, some of the most common New Year?s Resolutions are to lose weight, to stop smoking, to save money, and so on. Instead of resolving to do things that can cause you s...

How do you feel about what is around you in life? What do you expect people, situations and things to provide to you? So often we make statements like; 'I don't get any ple...

There are people who keep their irritations, worries, upsets and fights close to their chest. They suffer or run the risk of a nervous breakdown. A friend, who, in his own words, c...

Few movies have had the strength to move me to action. The Pursuit of HappYness is definitely the exception. Will Smith plays the role of Chris Gardner, a down and out dad who's...

Necessities are the wheels which set motion in life; they are intangible, a feeling, and a genuine need. Comforts and luxuries add something more concrete and tangible to the whole...

Wow! Everywhere you go these days, there is a guru of one kind or another offering to teach you the secrets of making money, having great sex, living longer, and, the old stand-by ...

Being an international class-room with an Australian bloke (definition to follow) up the front, I get regular emails from some of my international (mainly American) visitors wonder...

"This year, I?m going to stop worrying so much." "I will get in shape, once and for all." "I?ll stop spending beyond my means." "I?ll get along better with my family." ...

Every day I am faced with difficult and demanding situations in my personal life as well as my work life. Many of these unpleasant circumstances cause me emotional pain and distres...

Happiness is a personal journey but when you watch television you would think the good life is a new car, skinny body, or winning the lottery. If you were to look at surveys, most ...

Your self-esteem is how you feel and think about yourself. Self-esteem is mostly developed during our childhood and affected by how we were treated during our successes and failure...

Most people in our society are chasing happiness but never catching it. They find ways to buy the next toy or status symbol but the joy from that is short lived. The good news is t...

Okay, so you have problems. Who doesn?t? You think that your problems are bigger than you, bigger than anyone else?s, and bigger than life itself. Let me tell you right here and no...

If you lack self esteem and are low in self confidence then you probably spend a lot of time wishing you had the confidence to act and behave in the way people with high self estee...

You weren't born perfect - nobody is. But you can do something to make your life a lot better than what is experienced by the average individual. The people who are the happiest wi...

Getting through the holidays with your sanity intact doesn?t have to be Mission Impossible. But it will take you being willing to do things a little differently than last year. Isn...

Interested in becoming more happy and successful? Cancer Survivors have obviously been through one of the hardest tests life can throw us and this article has some surprising infor...

The 18th World Cup was enjoyable. Behind the Olympics, the FIFA World Cup is the second most universal event. The world unites every four year when the Olympics air, while the worl...

Rushing around in a blizzard, buying gifts, putting up lights, planning dinners, attending parties, and preparing for Grandma all in the week before Christmas Day may be your idea ...

Progress can never be correlated to amassing of material wealth or sense pleasures and nor can it have anything to do with attainment of conducive circumstances in life. In fact pr...

Since we have already considered those people who seem to enjoy all the advantages of life, let?s now examine the other extreme. As before, we can take the imaginary example of ano...

Perhaps we should consider those people who seem to live their lives in an apparently altruistic manner, dedicating themselves to conservation, charity, public service, learning, r...

What about a parent?s love for their children, could this be the unconditional love that many of us are seeking? Certainly, many parents would argue in favour of this proposition, ...

Having looked at the main reasons why people fall in love, let?s now consider some of the courses that this love may then take. The ideal, of course, is the situation where two peo...

Have you ever been in love? Why did it feel so good? Once you identify that person, the person who seems to be so special, so much better than everyone else, you allow yourself to ...

When you're exhausted, out of sorts or just plain blue, don't give up. A HOT CUPPA: It's like those advertisements-furrowed forehead, a face as a urinal queue, and then a ...

Have you noticed that as people age they seem to grow "mellower"? Well now there's scientific proof for that hypothesis. A study by LM Williams, KJ Brown and D Palmer reported in t...

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 f...

There is very little that brings out a more peaceful feeling in a person?s heart than the beauty of the country. Whether it is sitting on the front porch with a glass of lemonade t...

Many people are living a life of sadness, despair, fear and anger, as if they were living in a basement with a very low ceiling. A cold, damp ceiling of dense concrete, keeping the...

If you?ve ever queried the power of the spoken word, you?ve never been a mother. To get the truth of this, picture a supermarket queue at rush hour. For the full Technicolor-wr...

Our society has changed over the years. One area that bothers me is what people refer to as the term ?politically correct.? In the past, no one thought about saying, ?That offends ...

We are what we think and what we eat! The people who know me, know that I believe in the power of thoughts. I myself have come from a place of thinking gone wrong. My thinking was ...

Happiness is all in attitude. Changing the way you think about things. Is the glass half full, or is it half empty? Is the sun bright and beautiful or is it hot and miserable? Does...

All of us suffer from unhappiness at one time or another. Sometimes it is difficult to keep ourselves uplifted. However, there are many things we can do to help achieve happiness. ...

Plants? experience of being in the world is very different from the experience of us animals. Because plants cannot move about, they exist in a state of profound acceptance and pea...

Being Scottish, I couldn?t help being interested in Andy Murray?s progress during the recent Wimbledon Tennis Championships. He actually had a very successful tournament, beating A...

Two recent research studies have shown that you are more likely to have a heart attack on your birthday than any other day of the year. Many people view their birthday as a negativ...

If there is one single thing that you really need to improve your self esteem, it have to be confidence. Self confident can do wonders for every part of your life. But for most of ...

Gayatri Mantra is supreme amongst all Mantras because it bestows its devotees with a pure and focused intellect. According to Chandogya Upanishad, this entire cosmos is Gayatri-man...

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 Universi...

Happiness is hard to define but most people are unaware of whether they are happy or not. Many people believe that happiness is a form of luck and that some people are destined ...

Most of us like to drink and have a good time. 'Partying' is just a harmless recreational use of drinking. But, when is it too much? How can you tell if you are addicted? And when ...

Hi, my name is Itzik Keidar, I'm the founder of "The Worldwide Free ProsperyT Project" and I'm very excited to see my vision of Free Global Prosperity, come to life.. :-) Did y...

Some disturbing observations plucked from the Internet to amuse, bemuse and confuse. According to a recent search on my part, I came across some interesting findings. The search wa...

Everybody has goals and dreams. These dreams are at the center of who you really are. It is the core essence of who you are as a person, and the very purpose of your BEING. What yo...

We all love to feel full inside, which is one of the reasons why eating too much is such a challenge for a lot of people. Yet, as soon as the food digests, many people go back to f...

The road to recovery from issues in our lives that have hampered our happiness and wellbeing can be a long and perplexing path. Often it will seem to go in circles endlessly and n...

Dreams are defined, loosely, as a "sequence of sensations, images, thoughts, etc., passing through a sleeping person's mind? Dreams reveal a lot about our personality, our hopes...

Have you ever wondered where you fall on the happiness scale? Are most people happier or less happy than you? According to a Scripps Howard/Ohio University survey of 1,007 U.S. adu...

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 miscon...

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....

How many close friends do you have? One? Two? Five? Do you think you have enough close friends, or do you wish you had more? A few weeks I read in the newspaper that the av...

What is the importance of feeling good? Have you ever noticed that things just go so well when you are feeling good? This phenomenon is often described in various other ways such a...

Eileen's face lit up when she spoke of her courtship with her husband, Steve. "He was so tall and handsome and I was so in love," she said. "When he would put his arms around m...

How often have you heard the cry ?All I want is to be happy?? Sometimes this has been followed with,? Surely, that?s not too much to ask for?? Not too much to ask for. This sugges...

Life is all about experience. Most of us have quite a vast intellectual knowledge of the world. Intellectually we know what's available to us as human beings and although most peop...

The alcohol and drug problem in this country is huge and most of the standard addiction recovery and treatment programs aren?t working. Consider the following CRIME: 25% of all ...

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.? - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Change has a very negative connotation for mo...

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...

This week I was sitting on the phone with tech support, and over and over again, I thought of things I could have done while I sat there -- waiting -- not living my life. Are y...

Do you have things like a bicycle, jetski, or swimming pool that sit unused? Is it that you don't have time to use them because you have to work so much just to pay for them? Somet...

Copyright 2006 Marshall House You have your own unique constructs and beliefs and views about laughter and play and fun and joy and happiness. As does each person. In this artic...

People complain. They?re complaining all the time about everything. As a child, I was innocent enough to believe what people were saying. I really thought there were plenty of vali...

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 o...

What is Perfectionism? Perfectionism is defined as a meticulous drive to attain excellence. A perfectionist is one who has this characteristic. 'Perfectionism' is a most preval...

I have no doubt that there are many people out there who are searching for ways of improving their overall quality of life. We have no divine right to be happy of course but on the...

One of the biggest challenges that most people face in the exiting times we live in, is the feeling that their lives are just spiralling out of control. They feel like the events a...