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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Cold Rain, Dancing Umbrellas, and Electronic Music A Quick and Dirty Anecdote from Austin City Limits Music Fest Two of my best buddies from college came into town for the recent Austin City Limits music festival. We were chilling at the Honda Stage, near the back where it was still flat but there was space […]
Follow Your Own Advice Apply your own wisdom Chances are there are places in your life that you’re not applying your own wisdom. They say the best coaches aren’t always the best players—maybe it’s because they’re not focused on coaching themselves. Have friends that come to you for advice in relationships? Work? Health? Many times […]
Can 100-Hour Work Weeks Make You Happy? Reflections On Elon Musk, Working Too Hard, and Happiness If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that… you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them […]
Saying No is Saying Yes And Saying Yes Can Make You a Lot Happier When you say “no” to one thing, you say “yes” to something else. A simple, obvious, and underemployed statement. When you say “no” to going out and drinking, you say “yes” to reading the book you’ve been wanting to read, or getting up […]
Thankfully the Social Media Generation Never Breaks Up My sister just sent me an NYMag article entitled “All My Exes Live in Texts: How the Social Media Generation Never Really Breaks Up.” [1] It’s a fun read, and there are certainly many things I relate to in the article. There are many ways in which I’m […]
Insights from the literature of extraordinary results I recently read “The One Thing” by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan. The second section identifies six “lies” that mainstream American culture mistakenly propagates. Keller and Papasan argue that we can achieve “extraordinary results” by no longer believing these lies. These lies also keep us from being happy, as […]
Yesterday evening I lost the keys to my car during a bike ride. I got AAA to tow the car from my garage to the Toyota dealership where they could make a new key this morning. When I hadn’t heard from the dealership, I called to ask about the progress. They could not find my […]