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Happiness

Gratitude for Being Human

November 22, 2011

Here’s what I’m grateful for right now: being human. The whole of it. Everything that being human entails. I used to think being human kind of sucked most of the time. With our habitual patterns that run on auto-pilot and our irrationally fearful thoughts and our unpredictable emotions. Human-ness felt like a big hassle. I [...]

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If nothing ever changed, could you be as happy as you want to be?

November 10, 2011

The power was out on much of the East Coast last weekend.  Some people were really affected by the outage. You’ve seen these people—the ones who end up interviewed by the local news or The Weather Channel. Their lives are put on hold until power is restored. They have no say in when their power [...]

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What was your most useful failure?

October 6, 2011

My friend posed this question on Facebook. I love it. What was your most useful failure? I’m sure I’ve had a lot of life-saving failures. But two come immediately to mind: 1) Abhorring my first career out of graduate school. I was a trial consultant helping corporate defense attorneys craft lies to win their cases [...]

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Success is sooo much more likely than failure

September 15, 2011

You might not believe me at first but I swear it’s the truth…. We’re infinitely more likely to succeed in life than to fail.  When you really think about it, much more goes right than wrong. Even on your worst day ever. This doesn’t feel true because—in a totally protective and adaptive way—we’re inclined to [...]

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Is it good for you?

June 16, 2011

Life is good. Like, really good. Happy and joyful and awesome. 15 years ago, I would’ve never believed it could be like this.  Bobby McFerrin singing “Don’t worry be happy” went right over my head, but Loverboy’s “Working for the weekend” was on repeat in my boombox. I looked right past all those yellow smiley [...]

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Peeling back the layers

May 12, 2011

We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are. We see it through layers of stuff. Stuff like beliefs, fears, memories, opinions, ideas about what we think will make us happy. Those layers pile on top of each other and bury our core self. You know, the core you that [...]

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Life Isn’t Fair

April 7, 2011

Read this. It’s really good. Here’s the gist: A woman was feeling disillusioned, frustrated, tired.  (We’ve all been there, right? I was there most of yesterday.) She was railing against her predominating thought: “Life isn’t fair”. Her very smart coach gently pointed out that life isn’t fair. Because it’s not. Of course. Believing life should [...]

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My Happiness Inside Interview on Taking 100% Responsibility

April 3, 2011

I was interviewed by Gordon Simmons from the Happiness Inside site last week.  We talked about taking total responsible for your happiness. ‘Cuz who else will? …do you think I’m too close to the camera??

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Is my husband actually happy as a stay-at-home dad? The difference between a happy life and an interesting life.

March 12, 2011

You’ve probably read that my husband stays home with our kid. I’m amazed that this works as well as it does.  We both had a lot of concerns going into it. I worried that having him always home, making so many of the parenting and household decisions I usually made would end in me criticizing [...]

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The Case for Changing your Environment

March 3, 2011

Feeling more of the good stuff—joy, gratitude, peace—is an inside job. No doubt about it. I mean, if you have a hard time changing your own thoughts, feelings, and actions (and I know you sometimes do), what makes you think you can control someone else’s thoughts, feeling, and actions? The safer bet is to change [...]

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