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How Do I make Myself Happier? People sometimes ask me: “What is the one thing I can do to make myself happier?” That’s a hard question to answer because happiness usually [...]

In recent years, a lot of people have been talking about the power of thinking positively. They claim that just by thinking good thoughts you can obtain everything you might want in life. I [...]

If you want to know one of the surest ways to hinder your own happiness, here it is: never take risks. Now by risks I don’t mean gambling your life savings away in Las Vegas or meeting that [...]

If you’ve ever wondered why some people just seem happier than others, there may be an answer. Part of the difference comes from people’s feelings of control over their own lives. In [...]

Here’s a question to ponder: what is the least productive activity you can engage in? Likewise, what is the activity that is most likely to make you less happy in your life? The answer is [...]

If you want happiness, one way is to remove all of the negativity from your life. Outside of your own negative thoughts (an issue discussed in another article) you also deal with negative people [...]

Our personal relationships with other people should be one of the biggest sources of our happiness but sometimes those same relationships can become just the opposite. The problem is sometimes [...]

For those who don’t get the channel, HGTV stands for Home and Garden Television. It’s a seemingly harmless cable channel that airs programs on buying homes, renovating homes, re-decorating homes, [...]

Back in the early 1900’s, an influential social psychologist came up with a theory called the Looking-glass self to explain how our views of ourselves change based on how other people [...]

When new electronic “stuff” comes out, people line up outside the stores to buy the latest and greatest “stuff.” When the holidays roll around, people stand in line, shove and push each other, [...]