|
|
|
Susan McMillin - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Susan McMillin is the founder of Happy Life University, an online resource dedicated to helping you be happier now. Scientists and spiritual leaders agree that happiness can be learned. Not only does a happy life feel good, happy people improve their communities and build a more peaceful and resilient world.
As a systems engineer, Susan McMillin likes to find ways to make things work better. From how to be happy, to better government, to ... [More]
[View Susan McMillin's Extended Author Bio]
[Display Categories] Sort By [Title] [Newest] [Oldest]
Susan McMillin Email Alerts
- Make a Gratitude List to Count Your Blessings For a Happy Life
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] Develop a Gratitude List. Gratitude is one simple key to a happy life. Count your blessings is good advice, but it can be hard to do in the stress and rush of everyday life. Overcome this difficulty with a thanksgiving inventory to build happiness anytime.
- How to Thank a Veteran - Honoring Veterans Seven Different Ways
[News-and-Society:Military] Studies show that people living in democratic nations are happier overall than people in countries with other forms of government. When countries also achieve domestic peace, strong judicial systems that enforce the laws and a prosperous and educated middle class, citizens are not only happier, but more peaceful overall.
- Set Your Goals For Peace, Love and Happiness to Live in Harmony
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] How to set your goals for peace love and happiness. When your goals match your values you can think, speak and act in harmony leading to more peace, love, and happiness. Free goal setting forms, including a SMART goals worksheet.
- SMART Goals For a Happy Life
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] SMART goals for a Happy Life? Is that SMART as in Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely? You might think that sounds very analytical for something as subjective as happiness, but choosing happiness over ambition requires clear and conscious decision making.
- Show Your Mother Appreciation With These Five Easy Tips
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] Show your Mother appreciation this Mother's Day in a way that expresses the love you feel. Identify her love language and design a gift that fits her exactly.
- From Nature With Love, Celebrate Earth Day With Good News and Good Feelings in Nature
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] Celebrate Earth Day with good news and good feelings in nature. You will be happier if you savor the experience of nature. When you appreciate nature, you can save the earth.
- Does Money Buy Happiness? New Research Says Maybe
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] The common scientific answer to the question, does money buy happiness, has been no. Study after study has shown that once your basic needs are met and you are not living in poverty, more money does not make you happier. Doctors Norton (Harvard Business School), Dunn and Aknin (both at University of British Columbia) wondered if the issue was not that money couldn't buy happiness but that people simply weren't spending it in the right way to make themselves happier.
- Be Silly - 50 Ways to Increase Silliness in Your Life
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] Here are 50 ways to be silly because some silliness is essential for a happy life. People use silliness to laugh and laughter is a good antidote to stress. Silliness is different from humor because silliness has no point, no insult, or witty insight. Silliness is innocent and light hearted and involves no injury. We laugh at cartoon characters falling and comedians doing pratt falls because we know no one is injured.
- Coping With Layoffs - Survive a Depression With Your Smile Intact - Part 3 of a 3 Article Series
[Business:Career-Advice] The third in a three part series on surviving a layoff using emotion focused coping skills from positive psychology. Keep your smile by meeting these three emotional needs.
- Coping With Job Loss - Emotion-Focused Coping Skills to Stay Positive - Part 2 of a 3 Article Series
[Business:Careers-Employment] Coping with job loss often means coping with a loss of identity, connection to a social group, and a source of satisfaction as well as coping with a loss of income. To stay positive, you must find ways to meet these emotional needs as well as your financial ones. This article outlines three specific emotion focused coping skills to keep us looking up.
- Surviving a Layoff - How to Stay Positive When Coping With Job Loss - Part 1 of a 3 Article Series
[Business:Careers-Employment] All the advice on surviving a layoff says to stay positive, but this can be difficult when your income and part of your identity and social network are ripped away. Coping with job loss requires more than good financial management, it requires good emotional management too.
- Love Messages - How to Let Your Love Flow by Speaking the Right Love Language
[Relationships:Love] Love messages must be received in order to work. Let your love flow by expressing love in the right love language for your loved one to hear, or see, or feel. When you do, you can have Valentine's Day all year long.
- Where is the Love? Feel Loved More Often With This Gratitude Practice
[Relationships:Love] Do you sometimes wonder where is the love? Would you like to feel loved more often? To feel like somebody loves you, you have to notice and appreciate it when they do express their love for you. You can notice more often with this gratitude practice.
- Regain Your Enthusiasm - How to Get All Fired Up With These 5 Tools
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Once you've experienced life enthusiasm and lose it, you know how important it is to get all fired up again. Use these 5 tools daily as a quick fix or as a way to build and restore your enthusiasm over time. Regain your enthusiasm and experience the joy of a happy life.
- How to Be Happy in 7 Easy Steps
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] Happy people don't just feel good, they are good for other people too. Studies show that happy people give more and practice universal virtues more. Feeling happy is good for us too- improving our health by improving the body's chemical balance. Science confirms what spiritual leaders and philosophers have always known, happiness can be learned. Try these 7 easy steps to be happier now.
- Happiness is Contagious - How One Happy Person Can Cheer Up a Whole Neighborhood
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] New research shows that happiness is contagious, spreading to friends and neighbors like a virus. You could give the gift of happiness just by being happy yourself.
- Obama Inauguration - A Case Study in the Power of Happiness to Create Peace
[News-and-Society:Politics] A case study in the power of happiness to create peace. The most memorable thing about the Obama Inauguration was how happy the people were and that there were no arrests or injuries despite challenging and frustrating conditions.
- Gratitude Day - The Key to Happy Holidays in Tough Times
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] Gratitude day, otherwise known as Thanksgiving just may be the key to having Happy Holidays in tough times. An Attitude of gratitude, even for a short time, has been shown to increase happiness 25%.
- Happy Holidays in Tough Times - 5 Practical Steps From the New Science of Happiness
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] The holiday season can be a stressful time under the best of circumstances, but in tough times creating happy Holidays can seem even more challenging. The new science of happiness, can help by identifying what makes us really happy and what we think will make us happy and doesn't. Using these 5 practical steps, proven effective by science, it is possible to have Happy Holidays in tough times and the effort just might turn those tough times around.
|
|
|
