Happiness Articles

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• Does Facebook Help Students Adapt to College?
  Recent psychological research suggests that social networking can help university students feel supported in their first few weeks at school. Investigating the possibility, ...
• 5 Reasons Not To Marry the One You Love
  For many young girls, being a bride is the closest thing possible to living out childhood fantasies ...
• 15 Tips to Boost Your Well-Being and Happiness
  Taking better care of your body boosts your well-being fairly fast. “[Exercising and eating well] provide nearly instant benefits, ...
• The Myth of the Perfect Marriage
  When the reality of marriage doesn’t meet our expectations, we tend to blame reality. When it comes to marriage, we expect the ...
• The Mid-Life Crisis: An Opportunity in Disguise?
  In the movie City Slickers the character played by Billy Crystal hits his 39th birthday and finds himself in a ...
• A Special New Year’s Resolution for Procrastinators
  Procrastinators rejoice! The coming of the New Year is a fantastic opportunity for you to energize yourself toward achieving ...
• The Christmas “Not To-Do” List
  ‘Tis the season for list-making: Lists of gifts to buy. Lists of cards to send. Lists of people to see and things ...
• Find the Upside of the Down Times
  Some people have all the bad luck, and by any measure Rob Pennington, author of Find the Upside of the Down Times, has had more than his fair share. He was shot in the chest, ...
• A Cluttered Life: Searching for God, Serenity, and My Missing Keys
  A Cluttered Life: Searching for God, Serenity, and My Missing Keys is written for anyone who has felt the pull between the chaos of everyday living and the longing for a rich spiritual life.  Pesi ...
• Transform Your Life Now
  If you Google the phrase "transform your life," you get results showing you how to do just that in 5 easy ways, in less than 30 minutes, with 10 technologies, by 10 truths, or in ...
• Alternative Treatments for Depression
  There are a wide range of alternative treatments for depression. Before seeking out a mental health professional or talking to their doctor, a ...
• 4 Tips To Change the Way You Deal with Stress
  Dr. James C. Dobson once said “there are very few certainties that touch us all in this ...
• Saying No (Kindly) And Then Letting Go
  Is it challenging for you to say no without feeling bad, anxious, and uncomfortable? If so, you may be ...
• 12 More Ways Successful Entrepreneurs Stay Productive and Overcome Pitfalls
  When you’re an entrepreneur, who inevitably wears many hats, managing your time can get tricky—especially when it’s ...
• The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt
  A shaky self-confidence or relentless self-doubt stops many people from pursuing their passions. A fear of failure gnaws at them, leaving them at a standstill and unsatisfied with their lives. If you know what I’m ...
• What it Means To Be in Love
  Such a broad and abstract topic as love, not surprisingly, is hard to define. And, of course, many writers, artists, ...
• 7 Tips on Developing and Maintaining a Successful Intimate Relationship
  You probably wish to develop and maintain a successful intimate relationship. Unfortunately you, like many others, might ...
• Predicting Happiness and Unhappiness: A Skill We Never Master
  Why do we have such a preoccupation with the future and the powerful range of feelings that ...
• The Blame Game: The Complete Guide to Blaming
  Blame is a universal concept that most human beings experience at one point or another in their lives. For most of us, blaming behavior has become so second nature, that it goes unnoticed and ignored ...
• Supporting Your 20-Something Child into Healthy Adulthood
  Are we doing enough to support our 20-somethings' transition into a healthy adulthood? In some ways, today’s young adults have ...
• Resilience: How Your Inner Strength Can Set You Free from the Past
  Boris Cyrulnik is a renowned neuropsychiatrist and psychoanalyst, director of teaching at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the Université du Sud, Toulon-Var, France. At the age of 5, he lost both of ...
• Train Your Brain to Get Happy
  It seems as though every few months another book is published that purports to have discovered the ultimate cure for an unhappy life.  Some tout self-esteem, others Buddhism, and still others plastic surgery.  Train Your ...
• Peace in the Heart and Home: A Down-to-Earth Guide for Creating a Better Life
  Charlette Mikulka — psychotherapist, social worker, wife, and mother — has created an incredibly all-encompassing book with Peace in the Heart and Home: A Down-to-Earth Guide to Creating a Better Life for You and Your ...
• The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement
  What drives a person to success? Sure, a good education and finding just the right career helps. But could there be a genetic predisposition for success? David Brooks examines what makes a person successful in ...
• Pocket Truths For Success: 365 Daily Principles to Become the Most Successful Person You Know
  “Achieving and sustaining success” and helping others to do so is the premise for Pocket Truths For Success, by B.A. Newman and Dr. Justin B. Short. Other inspirational books have used the day-at-a-time focus and ...