Happiness Blog

Almost Everyone Makes This Personal Development Mistake. Do You?

Imagine, for a moment, this strange scenario: You head off to a big university to learn what you need to know to pursue your dream career.

When you get to school, they give you a big catalog of courses filled with of all sorts of interesting topics that catch your eye. There’s that course in French literature you’ve always dreamed of, the course in anthropology your friend told all about, and you remember your dad telling you how great the courses in electrical engineering he took were. So you decide to take those courses and see how it goes.

Afterwards, you look back and realize that electrical engineering wasn’t right for you, and the French literature, while enjoyable, didn’t really contribute much to your goals, either. The anthropology course was more useful. You learned some things you’re sure will help you in the future.

If you spend your time at the university this way, how long do you think it would take you to get a degree in your field of interest? Decades, at least, and probably never, right?

Amazingly, this crazy trial and error approach is exactly how almost everyone tries to achieve their dreams of a happy, fulfilling, and satisfying life….

3 Little-Known Ways to Unlock Your Life Purpose

On my last birthday a close friend gave me an extraordinary present. She sent me a message with a list of various courses, workshops and classes and said, “Choose one, it will be a part of my birthday gift for you.”

“What a great idea!” I thought, and started looking through descriptions of dance and yoga workshops, cooking or self-defense classes, Turkish ebru painting or soutache jewelry workshops, personal development and coaching sessions. As much as I was tempted by the creativity-related events, my attention was really drawn to a 90-minute coaching session entitled “Invitation to Travel Inside for Inspiration.”…

How to Get Rich: The Easy Way to Millionaire Status

So you want to get rich and become a millionaire? Why not? Money won’t buy you happiness but it will buy security and opportunity which can lead to greater happiness.

Odds are, if you’re reading this, you probably can be rich – if you really want it.

I don’t mean wanting to be rich alone is enough. You’ll have to work for your million dollars but as for getting it, yeah, that’s possible, maybe even probable.

Here’s how…

Don’t Make These Life Mistakes: Using Bucket Lists to Get from Regret to Life Fulfilling Plan

For more than a good couple of years I have been planning to spend time with my grandmother and ask her all the important questions about her life and our family, the questions that only she could answer.

She was approaching her nineties and I was thinking it might be high time to do so.

Then came all the excuses…

Are You Too Comfortable Inside Your Comfort Zone?

Let’s face it, working on becoming happier is challenging and it’s scary.

Every step towards happiness seems to be a step outside your comfort zone. It’s place that scares us, a darkness we retreat from into complacency and unhappiness.

It need not be this way.

Let’s put your comfort zone into perspective:

Everything currently inside your comfort zone used to be outside it.

Think about your first day at school, your first kiss, or your first job. Remember how scared you were? Were the tears flowing that first time?

How about the first time you made love…