Advice I Would Give to My 20-Year-Old Self
Inspired by recent movies on time travel, I often think about what I would tell my 20-year-old...
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Tag: happiness
36 Lessons I Learned This Year
Every year, around my birthday, I like to write down the things I learned, one lesson for every...
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How To Spend Money To Maximize Your Happiness
Happy Money is a book that explores finances differently. While a lot of finance books might talk...
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Ten things you can do right now to be kind to strangers, friends, family or your partner
I often think about one of the splendid truths by Gretchen Rubin, author of the best selling The...
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Book notes from Paths to Happiness – 50 ways to add joy to your life every day
What’s happiness to you? How do you define happiness? The definition that I like is one I heard from a podcast somewhere but I can’t recall who it was from (if you know, please let me know in the comments) and it is really about having consecutive good days. For example, if you got fired […]
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34 lessons I learned this past year
It was my birthday yesterday and if you haven’t already guessed, I turned a super young age of 20 (plus tax). As a tradition, I like to reflect back on my year and think about the things that I’ve learned in the past year. Some things need repeating from year to year and other things […]
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Ten random acts of kindness you can do for friends, family, coworkers and strangers
Whenever I think of a random act of kindness, I always think back to the time I first watched the movie Pay it forward with Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt and Haley Joel Osmont. The movie is about a teacher (Kevin) who talks about this concept of paying it forward which one student (Haley) decides to […]
Read More10 ways to improve your long term happiness
More and more, I have been thinking about things in the long term rather than the short term. When Jeff Bezos spent $42 million to create the clock that ticks once a year, he was thinking very long term. Similarly, when he built Amazon, he had a long term vision for what kind of company […]
Read MoreTen things that I do in 5 minutes or less to improve my happiness
Happiness seems to be a big subject that is popular these days. Nobody really knows the exact formula or ingredients for happiness and that’s because happiness is unique to the individual. From having read a few books on the subject (The Happiness Project, The Happiness Equation, etc.), I have come up with my own definition […]
Read MoreWhat I learned about happiness from the Little Book of Lykke
Lykke is the Danish word for happiness. After writing a best selling book called The Little Book of Hygge, he wrote a follow up that describes the different dimensions of happiness that Meik Wiking, as CEO of The Happiness Research Institute, has studied globally. As you probably realize, happiness isn’t something simple to measure. Some […]
Read MoreTen things I do to make myself happy
Gretchen Rubin says that one of her secrets of adulthood is “One of the best ways to make yourself happy, is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy, make yourself happy”. I’m not an expert in making myself happy but I thought I’d share a few of […]
Read MoreHow to be more positive — the specific things I do to become a more positive person
I’m not overly positive but I have heard from many of my friends how positive I am. It actually surprised a lot of them for me to say that I did not used to be positive – in fact, I used to be quite negative. Not in an unhealthy way although maybe you can argue […]
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