In the News This Week: Happiness, Exercise, Food Labels, and WAT-AAH
Napa, California is the Happiest City in America…According to 10 Million Tweets (via The Atlantic) The Vermont Complex Systems Center created a “hedonometer” – an analysis of 10 million geotagged...
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As I described in an earlier post, summer (sleepaway) camp was a formative experience for me. It was the first time in my young life I felt truly independent. It got me out of my sheltered world into...
View ArticleLess Dissatisfaction, More Desire
A short video entitled “What If Money Was No Object?” re-emerged in my Facebook feed last week. During the past few months, I’ve noticed it sporadically gain momentum, die down, and come back again a...
View ArticleTen Things That Made Me Feel Happy This Week
1) Our 2-yr-old daughter told me multiple times how beautiful the flowers smelled as I was running her to school in the jogging stroller. And she asked me whether it was winter again because it was...
View ArticleLaugh More
When was the last time you laughed? Like really, really laughed — maybe until your stomach muscles felt tired and your eyes watered? I’ve been noticing something about laughing lately. Kids do it...
View ArticleChoices
I read a friend’s blog post today about choosing happiness, and it was a great reminder that our state of mind…our way of being…is often a choice. Not always, but often (at least for those of us in...
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