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The 4 Hour Workweek in Real Time

Tim Ferris wrote the book “The Four Hour Workweek.” The book isn’t so much about only working four hours a week; it’s really about living

August 13, 2007

The Serious Business of Happiness

Sociologist Paul Ray wrote a book titled “The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World.” Ray researched a movement called the “grass

August 10, 2007

Understanding Opportunity Costs Leads to Better Decisions

Opportunity Cost is one of those concepts that all of us think we understand, but we’re often unable to calculate the real dollars involved.

In its simplest terms, Opportunity Cost can be defined as follows:

In order to gain something, you must lose something else.

How does, and should, this factor into the decisions we make in our everyday lives?

August 9, 2007

Secrets to Success from 7 Well-Known Celebrities

Jerry Seinfeld, as told to Brad Isaac, said that: “in order to accomplish something you have to work at it every day. Get one of

August 8, 2007

My Recent Unexpected Findings on Happiness

Sometimes the things that you plan for are interrupted by the unexpected, unwanted things. Often, we have misguided expectations of things, but sometimes that can

August 7, 2007

The Path to Happiness is Paved with Gratitude

According to Robert A. Emmons, people who feel gratitude experience higher levels of happiness and joy in their lives, along with being in better health

August 6, 2007

The Hedonic Treadmill and Happiness

The hedonic treadmill theory explains our never ending pursuit of happiness in reference to someone trying to stay on a treadmill; they try and try,

August 2, 2007

Scarce Resources, Human Needs, and Happiness

A quote from Robert H. Frank states: “The ultimate scarce resource in life is the willingness of other people to pay attention to us.” Frank

August 1, 2007

Finding Happiness at Work

Alexander Kjerulf is a Chief Happiness Officer. He believes that in order to be happy at work we should stop putting up with unhappy workplaces,

July 31, 2007

Positive Psychology and Happiness

Positive psychology can be defined as focusing on what is right with people as opposed to focusing on what is wrong, or negative. In the

July 30, 2007

Productivity, Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Balance – Knowing When Enough is Enough

What single obstacle repeatedly gets in the way of you getting the job done? For the most part, it’s not knowing when enough is enough.

July 26, 2007

What is Happiness?

Happiness can be defined as whether or not we are satisfied with how things are happening and unfolding in our lives, whether or not we

July 25, 2007

Happy Therapy

The Dalai Lama, after many years of studying humankind and trying to reach enlightenment, stated that: “Happiness is the purpose of our lives.” There is

July 20, 2007

Children and Personal Fulfillment

According to a Pew Research Center Survey, that WashingtonPost.com ran, children rank as highest sense of personal fulfillment for parents but they have dropped to

July 19, 2007

Happiness through “Taking What You Need”

Have you ever heard the saying “Take what you need and leave the rest behind?” There’s another meaning to the phrase (other than the obvious one). In some ways it’s the opposite of, and counter-intuitive to, what you already know.

July 18, 2007

How Does This Father Balance Work and Home Life?

Some examples of the way to try to balance work and a home life are: Step back and evaluate, objectively, what’s going on in our

July 17, 2007

My Expectations and Outdated Conventions – Could I Have Been Wrong?

All these years when adults have been trying to speak to their children and they have been interrupted by sounds of text messaging, computer programs,

July 16, 2007

Voluntary Simplicity – The Path to Happiness?

Many people, over the course of their life and careers, lost sight of what truly matters and what they truly value. If we prioritize our

July 13, 2007