When my grandmother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, we were all told to come visit immediately. By the time I got there, they had already given her a dose of chemotherapy. I was furious. Why do you give a dying 80 year old person a dose of chemotherapy? She never got out of bed again. […]
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I think I know what a small house is. One year my family of 4 lived in a one room house without plumbing. And some of the neighbors lived in smaller houses. We moved every year and sometimes we lived in spacious houses, other times in small apartments. But we always had enough room. (Although
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Dan Gilbert, a Harvard psychologist, says that we are terrible at predicting what makes us happy. In Stumbling on Happiness he explains how we are terrible at predicting what will make our future selves happy. For example, we think we want to be skinny and then we are surprised when the future self isn’t happy
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You don’t want money. You want the things money can bring. Most likely you want happiness or joy. You want money so that you can do more of the things that bring you happiness or joy. What would the world look like if we concentrated on what brought us joy instead of what brought us
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These things make people happy: Having friends Being healthy Not living in poverty Being married Money doesn’t make you happy. (Neither do kids according to many studies!)
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According to the Chiumento Happiness at Work Index the top ten things that make us happy at work are (in order): Friendly, supportive colleagues Enjoyable work Good boss or line manager Good work/life balance Varied work Belief that we’re doing something worthwhile Feeling that what we do makes a difference Being part of a successful
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Pamela from Escape from Cubicle Nation has these five questions she recommends answering to find out what you should do with your life. I answered them for fun and then I debated posting them here as they could be a bit personal but I thought it would be fun to see if you guys can
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I just read a very thought provoking article, Why Having More No Longer Makes Us Happy by Bill McKibben. The author argues that pursuing more wealth worked well in the past when we didn’t have much material wealth but now that we are a relatively wealthy nation, pursuing more and more wealth is making us
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Gretchen from the Happiness Project had a great story today that emphasized the truth of her main point: If you have plenty of fun in your life – if you make time to see friends, to learn about things that interest you, to do the things you enjoy, like reading or going to movies or
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Why do we all play the lottery when it’s been proven that winning the lottery won’t make us any happier? Lottery winners are no happier six months after they win the lottery than they were before they one. Many of them are considerably unhappier. I wrote a few days ago about how money isn’t evil.
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