How To Be Happy

20
Jan

How do you feel happy? Billions of people try finding the answer to this question. People look for happiness everywhere – in wealth and in love, in traveling and in settling down, in getting married and in getting divorced, in raising kids and in dedicating their life to themselves. Different people are looking for different things, doing different things, and dreaming about different things only because of one main reason – the feeling of happiness.

Finding happiness is an art which is why all people who really find it became incredibly popular – almost saints.

How to Feel Happy

1) Live in the moment. In order to feel happy all of the time, you need to learn how to feel happy each and every minute and then connect all those minutes together.

2) You have to learn how to switch from negative to positive in a matter of seconds (if you don’t know how, the Broken Heart 911 Program has a whole chapter dedicated to this topic).

3) In order to enjoy something as a whole, you need to learn how to enjoy the details first. For example, you get a cup of coffee in the morning. Instead of cursing that the coffee is spilling and it’s too hot, you forget to put in enough creamer and are going to be late at work, just take a minute, get rid of the feeling of being late and the anxiety that something bad will happen and enjoy the smell first, then the taste. Think about something that makes you happy while doing every sip; anything that makes you feel good will do the trick.

4) Remember that there are no bad things; there are things that make you feel bad and take you away from happiness and there are no bad people; there are toxic people that make you feel bad.

5) Reevaluate how you spend your time and who you are hanging out with on the regular basis. Are they worth your time and energy? Make a list of people who make you feel good. Try to spend more time with them.

6) Get enough sleep as well as sunshine (8-9 hours of sleep daily and 10 minutes under the sun will do the trick).

7) Don’t forget about your favorite music. However, if you love sad, heartbreaking songs, think again. You need something that will bring you happiness, not twirl, twist, and squeeze your heart and brain.

8) If you have a pet, it’s perfect, if you don’t, you can always visit a friend with a pet or a pet store. Science has shown that pets are major stress relievers.

9) Learn how to control your feelings. Get a pen and write a list of positive emotions on the left side, and a list of negative emotions on the right side. As soon as you catch yourself feeling something that belongs to the right side (anxiety, sadness, jealousy, anger, fear, etc) you need to get rid of this feeling.

10) Don’t get back to the past and stop feeling guilt and regret. Everything happens for a reason and for the best. You can’t control the circumstances; you can only control your behavior at the present moment. Therefore, start controlling it now, get rid of negative thoughts, and make the first step of being permanently happy.

11) Do not underestimate the power of exercise. The amount of oxygen that gets into your brain and releases the hormone of happiness is definitely worth spending time working out. One hour at the gym will not only get your body, but also your mind and soul in shape.

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2
Jan

New Year’s Resolutions – for some people New Year’s Resolutions are excuses to continue with bad habits until the New Year. For other people, New Year’s Resolutions are an opportunity to overwrite mistakes and have a fresh start and another chance for them to get things right.

I’m a very strong believer in New Year’s Resolutions and I usually stick to one out of ten forever. However, I can’t agree more with the point of view of one young (15 year old), but pretty accomplished for his age (straight “A” student who works out six times a week, eats healthy, and always works towards his professional goals while being amazing to his family without having “teen problems”) gentleman.  He simply stated, “What is the point of New Year’s Resolutions? If you would like to do something, just do it right away.”

Have you ever wondered about other people’s New Year’s Resolutions 2010? Here are the five most common ones: 1) lose weight, 2) pay off debt, 3) spend time with family, 4) quite smoking/drinking, and 5) be organized.

Those New Year’s Resolution ideas are great, but too general. The more broad the idea is, the harder it is to stick to it because the motivation will fade after the first tide of optimism is gone and results are nowhere to be seen.

Therefore, we suggest a different approach to New Year’s Resolutions.

First of all, I’d love to share one of my favorite quotes by Donald Trump, “Get going. Move forward. Aim high. Plan for a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Feed yourself some positive thoughts and you can take off at any time.”

If you visit this site, it means that you (as each and every person in the Universe) are looking for love, relationship, dating, and broken heart answers. How is this statement related to New Year’s Resolutions? Please, keep reading.

How to Make New Year’s Resolutions Really Work

1. Remember, the size of your waist line or bank account does not matter if it does not relate to your happiness. Finding positive highlights in each event and circumstance should be the number one priority this year. If you are not happy, you can’t be a great event’s magnet. Negativity is a form of fear and fear is a major destroyer.

2. Instead of shooting for big goals, slice and dice those until you have small steps you can stick to. Smaller steps bring larger results. My favorite example is suggested by Oprah: if you would like to lose 20 pounds by next year, all you have to do is to stick to losing 1.6 pounds per month! If you will lose more, you feel much better than if you stick to a resolution of losing 8 pounds a month (and failing).

More examples of mini resolutions:

1)    Do a plank for one minute every day.

2)    Cut 150 calories out of your every day diet (3 chocolate chip cookies which you enjoy for one minute and then shed off for several workouts).

3)    Go out for lunch once a week instead of every day or cut your Starbucks coffee from 5 to 1-2 times a week.

4)    Every time the thought of your ex bothers you, do the “Switch” exercise.

3. Be specific about what you’d really like to change. Take your time and eventually create a “Wish Board” or “Wish Album” that will help you visualize your goals.

4. Be persistent and if you slip and drop your Resolution, just get up on your feet as soon as you can and don’t wait until next year.

5. Keep your New Year’s Resolutions private; don’t share them with friends and family. This way, nobody can control and criticize you. In case of your failure, nobody will know and if case of your big victory, everybody will be surprised and astonished.

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18
May

1.     Happiness in not somewhere – it’s INSIDE of US.
2.     Nobody has a icense to judge, so if you know that a person is different from you – do not share the company.
3.      Learn to accept people for who they are – fish won’t fly and birds won’t swim.
4.     If you get angry from what other people do it means that your personal boundaries have “holes” and you need to work on yourself.
5.     Don’t try to change the world – many people failed doing it. Just enjoy every minute of your life!

DO NOT TRY TO CHANGE PEOPLE. FISH WON’T FLY AND BIRD WON’T SWIM

IF THE FISH AND THE BIRD DECIDE TO HAVE FUN TOGETHER, THAT’S WHAT WOULD POSSIBLY HAPPEN.

Imagine for a second that at the global economy crisis you were given the following for FREE:a 7 day vacation, two first class tickets from LA to Miami, a luxury condo with a 360 degree view (100 feet from the ocean) with more than an Olympic size pool, a brand new convertible Mercedes, and $2000 cash. Sounds like a fairytale, doesn’t it? Again, everything is free. What can possibly prevent two beautiful, young women who were friends for 7 years from being happy at this paradise? Here is the story.

My friends Amanda and Eva are my dear friends. They’ve been next door neighbors at a  Hollywood apartment building for the last 7 years. Amanda has a dear friend who happens to make multimillion fortunes after many years of cracking the “success code”. He doesn’t have family and enjoys sharing his wealth with his friends. So, he decided to send Amanda and Eve to a vacation after they finished their first year at the nursing school. They were exhausted studying full time and working, so Mr. Million decided to surprise them.

So, for the first three days I haven’t heard from them. I decided that two beautiful single ladies living luxury life in Miami would be too busy enjoying life. Then Eve called…”I hate Miami” were her first words following by sobbing. After that I started to receive daily Eve updates about how two poor girls suffered. Knowing that each story has two sides, I waited till they get back and listened to Amanda. As my wise dad says “every man has his own truth”.

Are you ready to listen to their problems? Here we go!

Eve didn’t wax her bikini and legs because she was too busy saying bye to her “boyfriend” (the “boyfriend” never admitted this official title and said that he would never marry her), Amanda got pissed that Eve looks hairy on a beach full of handsome rich men. She asked how Eve could possibly be with her “boyfriend” if her “bikini curves are that long”? Eve wanted to take the bus and look for the wax salon, Amanda was afraid that Eve’ll get lost.

Eve’s one swimsuit broke and she started to look for threads at Mr. Millionaire’s condo, and drove Amanda crazy when she didn’t find them. “Mr. Millionaire DOES NOT sew in his spare time” yelled Amanda.
Of course Amanda found out that it was Eve’s favorite swimsuit that she bought overseas 15 years ago and not one swimsuit fit her since…Her body and feet are so unique that it’s hard to find cloths.

Amanda wanted to go to the most expensive restaurants and Eve wanted to save each cent of Mr. Million’s money in order to pay her bills at home so she suggested “Subway”, Eve needed to eat huge bowl of ice cream every day and Amanda wanted to visit Miami trendy bars.

Eve refused to use sunscreen and Amanda got pissed because she knew that the next day Eve would be complaining. Amanda wanted to meet new people, and Eve said that she doesn’t want to talk to strange men because she is in love with her “boyfriend”. Eve required 17 hours of beauty sleep and Amanda needed to exercise.

This list can go on and on.

So each of them called me and told me what happened asking for MY OPINION. Well, here it is

1)     If it was Ms. Selfish of 2010, they both would share 1st place

2)     They both had their “their own truth” and I can understand both of them…except how they didn’t have any fun

3)     IF THE FISH AND THE BIRD DECIDE TO HAVE FUN TOGETHER, THAT’S WHAT WOULD POSSIBLY HAPPEN.

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