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Road to Happiness: Can our Community Work make us Happy?
Holidays are created around traditions, and one of the holiday traditions is to give either by money or by time. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 25% of adults volunteer. The number goes up as we age and down after age 80. Those who volunteer early are...
Road to Happiness: How can our Communities and Nation Make us Happy?
In our previous blogs, we looked at various Ws to make us happy. Those include Well-being, Working partner, Wealth, Work and Retirement, and Well-wishers (Friends, Family, Culture, Volunteering, Spirituality and religion, and our living community). You can find more...
Road to Happiness: How Can Religion Bring Happiness
In the last few articles, I introduced the concept of achieving happiness following the five W's I have thought through. These are • Well-being of ourselves: physical, mental, and personality • Working...
Road to Happiness: How Can Money Buy Happiness?
In the last few articles, I introduced the concept of achieving happiness following the five W's I have thought through. These are • Well-being of ourselves: physical, mental, and personality • Working...
Road to Happiness: Can Money Buy Happiness?
In the last four articles, I introduced the concept of achieving happiness following the five W’s I have thought through. These are Well-being of ourselves: physical, mental, and personalityWorking partner/Spouse/LoveWork and retirement⦁ Wealth or absence of poverty⦁...
Road to Happiness Part-4 : How Your Work Can Make You Happy
In the last three articles, I introduced the concept of achieving happiness following the five W’s that I have thought through. These are Well-being of ourselves: physical, mental, and personalityWorking partner/Spouse/LoveWork and retirementWealth or absence of...
Road to Happiness Part 3 : Working Partner/Spouse/ long-lasting Love
In the last two articles, I introduced the concept of achieving happiness following the five W’s that I have thought through. These are Well-being of ourselves: physical, mental, and personality Working partner/Spouse/Love Work and retirement Wealth or...
My 5 ‘W’ to Happiness The First ‘W’ is Well- being for Our Selves
https://youtu.be/D5V8L8-AjlE Last month I introduced the concept of achieving happiness following the five W’s I have thought through. These are • Well-being of ourselves: physical, mental, and personality • Wealth or absence of poverty • Worthy partner/Spouse/Love •...
Road to Subjective Well-being is right in front of you.
As we discussed earlier, happiness is a transient concept as it changes like a pulse or blood sugar. Happiness is short-lasting, and it will escape quickly from your heart with new negative stresses or expectations in life. Well-being talks about our...
Road to Happiness: 5 How Can Well-Wishers Bring Happiness
In the last few articles, I introduced the concept of achieving happiness following the five W's I have thought through. These are • Well-being of ourselves: physical, mental, and personality • Working...
Road to Happiness Part 2 : Well-being for Our Selves
Last month I introduced the concept of achieving happiness following the five W’s I have thought through. These are Well-being of ourselves: physical, mental, and personality Wealth or absence of poverty Working partner/Spouse/Love Work and retirement Well-wishers...
The Road to Happiness is Right in Front of You. Follow my Five Essentials W’s.
As we discussed earlier, happiness is transient as it changes like a pulse or blood sugar. Happiness is short-lasting, and it will escape quickly from your heart with new negative stresses or expectations in life. Well-being talks about our excellent mental and...
Happiness through Life Cycle: Watch out for Drops in Midlife but don’t Panic
From time to time, we read about mid-life crises. Is it real? When does it begin? There is some truth to it, and we will look at the evidence. We know that kids are usually happy but can we be happy in our old age? Few facts emerge from the study done by Blanchflower...
Happiness through Life Cycle: Midlife Crisis is Real, but it will Get Better.
Comedian Dylan Moran boils life down to just four stages: “Child, failure, old and dead”. Let us examine this. U-shaped Curve of Lifecycle Happiness: We read about mid-life crises from time to time. Is it real? When does it begin? We know that kids are...
World Happiness Report 2021: World Shows Resilience Importance of Trust and Benevolence: Will you get your lost wallet back?
Every year UN and Gallup polls would survey countries of the world. Now we know that one of the Scandinavian countries takes a prize. The USA has been in the top 20, though. If we can increase our healthy life expectancy, we may push to the top 10. Gallup Poll...
Grief through the Holidays
They say that nothing is guaranteed but death and taxes. We grumble about the former and try to avoid the reality of the later. Most of us would rather pay taxes than have to deal with the reality of the death of someone close to us. The finality of death...
Happiness Equations: What is it? How can I apply in my life?
Life is a pursuit of happiness but our journey begins with the wrong notion thurst upon us by society. Look below as explained by Happiness Equation Book Author Neil Pasricha. Our life journey starts with this notion. But in reality, we should change the...
Set Point Theory: Does Happiness come from Genetics or Environment?
Set Point Theory Is our chronic Happiness based on nature or nurture? In 1978 Phillip Brickman followed 22 lottery winners, a control group, and 29 paralyzed accident victims. They found that the recent accident victims reported gaining more Happiness from...
Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness: the past and the present
After satisfying basic needs, humans have searched for happiness and bliss. Various religion talks about happiness. Buddhism highlights nirvana (absolute happiness) as a core theme of Buddha’s teaching. For Hindus, salvation is an egoless state...
Why should we be Happy? Importance of Subjective Wellbeing (SWB)
Happiness makes for long life and makes it worth living- Sirach 30:20 For ages, we have known that people with depression and anxiety negatively affect their cardiovascular and immunological functioning. But is the opposite true? Let us look at it. Question 1. Do...
Positive Psychology: What are we measuring? Well-being, Happiness, or Subjective Well-being?
In positive psychology, words like well-being, happiness, and Subjective Well-being are interchanged and often confused. So, it is good to understand the differences. Well-being: is a perfect physical and psychological equilibrium between past (contentment),...
Positive Psychiatry: Its Time Has Come
Executive Summary Positive psychiatry is the science and practice of psychiatry that seeks to understand and promote well-being through assessment and interventions aimed at enhancing behavioral and mental wellness. Positive psychological characteristics such as...