Are You Secretly Ignoring Your Achievements and Causing Unhappiness? If you look at your feet when you climb a mountain, you never realize how far you have come until you are done. Each step feels as difficult—perhaps even more difficult—than the last. If you never look at the broader context of your journey, you might assume that […]
Why Acceptance is Required for Change In “Awareness is Love,” we discussed fully engaging the moment and loving what is. I mentioned that it was not a happiness strategy, but nevertheless a friend asked the question: How do we get rid of the bad if we accept it in ourselves? The Distinction Between Acceptance and Agreement In […]
Whatever You Do, Do it With Love “I’ve often said you could give a wonderful workshop just reading the phone book and if you read it with love and that love infuses every name you read; then you teach it.” – Ken Wapnick The secret to succeeding at anything is to do it with love. […]
Get What You Want: A Crucial Fact Your DailyHap Author Forgot to Mention Serving others is a very important part of happiness, and I have not talked about it nearly enough. Our well being—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual—often seems like a personal endeavor. But pursuing health and happiness alone is destined to fail. Studies Show […]
Looking at Well-Being on a Worldwide Scale On DailyHap.com we often look at happiness from a very individualistic perspective, focusing on the happiness of individuals. What happens when we broaden our scope and take a look at the happiness of society at large? In the United States of America we generally measure our progress through […]
How to Rid Your Life of Drama A Mental Trick that Changes Your Relationship to Conflict The Secret of Story Telling Why do the heroes of our favorite stories always get into worse and worse trouble? Because the mind loves conflict, and good writers take advantage of this. The worse the situation is, as long […]
A Secret Sauce to Relieve Holiday Stress 5 Tips for Being Yourself Around Your Family “A Democrat, a Republican, and a Libertarian walk into a bar…” Is this the beginning of a bad joke, or just a description of a holiday season family gathering? Let’s face it, our families sometimes bring out the worst in […]
A Painful Equation: Awareness is Love A discussion of awareness, reality, and love “Awareness is love.” Someone said this to me the other day and it struck me on a guttural level. I am sure I had heard it before, but that day it really stuck with me. Awareness is love. I cannot really explain […]
It’s easy to do and you’ll reap tons of benefits When we are talking about DailyHappiness sometimes we just need a little reminder to do something simple. In fact, it is often the simple things we know and love that knock us out of a funk—like a tasty piece of fruit, or a phone call […]
You Are Wrong About What Will Make You Happy And Sometimes That’s a Good Thing If you do not have 21 minutes to watch this video where Harvard Psychologist Dan Gilbert exposes some surprising myths about happiness, then here is the gist: We synthesize—as in create synthetically—happiness. And even for the “natural happiness” where we […]
How to Become A Saint* Experiment: Exploring Your Own Inner Wisdom and Highest Potential How would your life be different if you saw it through the eyes of Nelson Mandela? If you saw other people’s suffering like Mother Teresa did? If you thought about politics like the Dalai Llama? We revere these people for a […]
If You’re Not Doing This, You’re Forgiving Wrong True Forgiveness: Correcting Misapplications of Forgiveness I find that forgiveness is often misunderstood. I often misapply it (but I’m forgiving myself for it). The First Mistake: Forgiveness Means Someone Else Screwed Up First, there is the common notion that forgiveness means pardoning someone for the wrong they […]