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Donald, over at Life Optimizer, has published a guest post I wrote for him called 4 Guidelines for Increasing Daily Happiness.
The post deals with how there are three categories of things that bring us happiness: our genetics, our circumstances, and our intentional activities
The post is all about how to maximize the happiness we get from [...]
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There is a theory, called the Biophilia Hypothesis, that states that we have a love of nature literally built in to us.
It is believed that this love of nature runs so deep within us that being in and around nature actually has physical as well as psychological benefits.
Some of the specific benefits of the [...]
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The idea behind this post is quite similar to the idea behind another post I recently wrote, Boost Your Personal Growth by Learning a New Language.
The basic idea is that who we are thinking about when we are doing something actually has a big impact on how we do that something.
For example, the researchers [...]
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Back in May I wrote a post called Is Happiness Contagious? (which is, I think, one of the most fascinating posts on ImprovedLives) which was all about the research of Dr. Nicholas Christakis.
Dr. Christakis was trying to discover whether having obese people in your social network was more likely to make you obese too, [...]
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Being from an officially bilingual country (Canada), I’ve had plenty of opportunities to learn a new language, but I never really saw the point. English is common in so many places of the world, taking the time to learn a new language always seemed like a lot of effort for very little payoff.
This new [...]
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I would like you to think about how many personal growth articles you have read. Now add to that all the videos you’ve watched, and all the books you’ve bought, and all the other personal growth lessons you’ve learned from anywhere and everywhere.
Now think about how many of those personal growth lessons really [...]
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Through the grapevine I heard about this wonderful book (I haven’t read it yet, but it sounds very good) that came out recently on aging well, which showed that living the kind of happy, fulfilled life that I talk about here at Improved Lives will, in combination with a few other things, predict health [...]
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I always seem to be forgetting to do my personal growth exercises like Gratitude Journaling. (which you can read about here) I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten out of bed because I’ve forgotten yet again. But no more.
I was browsing through this article called The Cheat’s Guide to Happiness and it [...]
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First of all, after a very long 2 weeks of having little or no computer access I just got my shiny new laptop in the mail, so expect some quality content in the next few days as I get back up to speed.
Second, my very first guest post has gone up over at AlexShalman.com. It’s [...]
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I’m still computerless so the lack of substantial updates continues, but I stumbled on to this article I had read a year or so ago that is really fascinating.
I tend to collect inspirational stories of people who have done amazing things and who have learned how to be an expert at something, because [...]
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