Dr. Martin Seligman identified three kinds of happy lives:
- A pleasant life: this involves having as much pleasure as you can. You can learn techniques to have more and longer pleasures and you can take shortcuts to pleasures like using drugs or go shopping.
- An engaged life: this is about involvement and absorption in something like work, leisure or people. You are so focused on something that time passes quickly and all sense of self is lost. This usually happens when you do something you are good at and really love. You can only achieve this type of happiness by finding your strengths and build your life around it.
- A meaningful life: This is not about pursuing pleasure, but about satisfying yourself with being meaningful and using your talents to serve something bigger than yourself. Engaging yourself in community service, charities , or politics and while using your strengths produces the belief that you live well.
Your social security number? No idea! You need this to get a job or collect social security benefits.
Your bank account number? In case you are on holiday and lost your credit cards, ATM, etc, you need to block your bank account, or access it to get money.
The number plate of your car? If [...]
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I have a confession to make. Up until now I haven’t been really interested in topics as breast cancer. I have never performed a self examination, and would not even know how to do it. I would not know what could cause breast cancer, or what would help to prevent it. I did hear somewhere [...]
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Save on electricity:
Know how much electricity you are using. When buying appliances, check the power and see if there are more economical appliances. A 3000 Watt industrial vacuum cleaner is really not necessary for home use.
Pull the plug. Appliances that include a clock or chargers of cell phones or cameras are still sucking electricity when [...]
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Questions about happiness only started to rise during the Renaissance. Enlightened thinkers wondered if it was possible to be happy on earth. Before the seventeenth century people only believed in the viewpoint of the Church that it is impossible to experience happiness since Adam and Eve were expelled from paradise. Prosperity brought the freedom to [...]
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Happiness Facts #2: Happiness research "
This is a question that strange enough I have never asked myself. What motivates a woman to have sex? I described before that sex is for women not exclusively a physical experience and that women should feel a sort of emotional closeness to a man to enjoy a sexual encounter. But research by Cindy [...]
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Why do women have sex? "
Are you just like me wondering every month where your money went? At the end of every month I can see that we run a profitable business and made ourselves a decent income. Also, at the end of every month that same income is all gone. Where friends can afford holidays, nice cars and dinners [...]
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