How to be More Happy will explore the nature of happiness. It will examine what happiness is and how to understand our own happiness. An effort will be made to develop clear methods to increase happiness in our own lives.
Today's entry demonstrates that the more things change, the more they stay the same. You'd think that, given dramatic changes in the cost of of a gallon of gas, the political party in power, levels of unemployment, racial unrest, divorce, or whatever over the past 26 years there would have been wild fluctuations in levels of happiness. Nope. Maybe if I choose a different scale for the graph....nope. I have to think that 1984 wasn't a good year, but otherwise things are pretty stable... Read Full Story
Americans prefer having more free time to being richer, according to a new report. A whopping 67% of the 2,400 people surveyed by the Pew Social & Demographic Trends Project ranked free time as their top priority–placing it above professional success, getting married or having kids. The remaining 13% of survey said being rich was their biggest priority. Read more. Read Full Story
I’m usually not one to advocate not eating food you enjoy. I believe that eating food that you enjoy brings happiness, and happiness brings health. So it is debatable as to how much bad food (like fast food) damages more your health than being unhappy because you are never eating food you enjoy.
So a solution to this is to believe hard enough that fast food will damage your health so much that you can’t enjoy eating it anymore. And at the same time, convincing yourself that the good food is... Read Full Story
Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is called "How to be More Happy". Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist's cap and add your own... Read Full Story
Hello reader! I'd like to take the time to introduce the themes and subject matter I'm going to explore in this blog. Please take a few moments to read this entry and if you find the ideas I put forth interesting, subscribe to my feed. Happiness is subjective. It's hard to measure and prone to bias. When our mood is good, we tend to interpret things more positively than when our mood is bad. What's clear is only that happiness is not a thing, and that makes it hard to quantify or... Read Full Story
