Happiness Poll

So what makes you happiest?

That’s the question we asked you last month. And thank you to everyone that participated.

What makes you happiest is a pretty general question so we broke it done a little more.

We asked you, “What Makes You Happiest?”

• Hanging out with your friends
• Spending time with your family
• Quiet/personal time

And I have to say that I’m a little surprised by the results. Have a look for yourself. [Read more →]

This months happiness poll. Please take a moment to cast your vote. In two weeks I’ll post the results.

The Happiness Poll

This months poll is closed. We asked our readers what makes them happiest:

• Hanging out with friends
• Spending time with family
• Quiet/personal time

I was actually surprised by the results.

Take a look at the happiness poll results.

Can You Define Happiness?

So how do you define happiness? Am I crazy to even try to figure out a definition of happiness? Can happiness really be pinned down and defined anyways?

Happiness is extremely personal experience. But still it’s the most universal of all human pursuits. So with that in my I set off on a mission to define happiness.

To help me define happiness I enrolled the help of Rock Stars, philosophers, authors, and friends. I knew that to define happiness would be a tough job so the more perspective I could have on the subject the better. [Read more →]

How To Be Happy Through The Power of Sharing

We all know someone like this. Maybe it’s you. But when this person shows up in your life you know it.

How?

Because you feel happy.

For me this magical and powerful person’s name is Bill.

Bill works two jobs. One of them in an Aids care facility.

And anyone who meets him will feel his resonant joy, love and happiness.

So what’s Bill’s secret to being happy?

I think Norman MacEwan summed it up perfectly when he said, “Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

And Bill is a giver. [Read more →]

Simply Create A Positive Mental Attitude

People may criticize the idea of having and maintaining a positive mental attitude but I dare them to give it a try for a couple of days.

Being positive and having that be the foundation of your mental make-up and personal attitude can and will take you miles further on your journey in life. [Read more →]

The Art of Personal Happiness

Sometimes happiness is a very personal. Look at my son. What makes him happy is wearing a princess crown. I didn’t understand it at first but it didn’t matter for him.

When he wore that crown he was happy. Smiling all day. Feeling fantastic and majestic. Dare I say, even beautiful (read handsome for you manly men).

We can learn from this little guy doing his own thing. [Read more →]

A Prayer of Happiness

by Ian Paul Marshall

There is One Great Impulse. One Driving Force. One Flash of Light and from it all of life has been born.

I am part of that life. I am one with that light. That divine force flows through my own very existence.

In this moment I seek to express the immense greatness that is my self. I call out to the universe and know that it responds to my every desire. [Read more →]

A simple happiness tip.

Sometimes all we need to do to discover happiness it to relax.

Sailor Bob Adamson asked, “What’s wrong with this moment if you stop thinking about it?”

It’s powerful question.

One that releases us into the freedom of the moment and the wellsrping of happiness that hides within us. [Read more →]

Happiness Is The Purpose of Life

The Dalai Lama believes the purpose of life is happiness.

He believes this so much that in the very first line of the first chapter of his book The Art of Happiness the Dalai Lama says this about happiness, “I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.”

If that wasn’t straight to the point I don’t know what is.

He goes on to say this about purpose and happiness, “Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think that the very motion of our life is towards happiness…” [Read more →]

Mr. Happiness The Rapping Monk

Here’s a happiness newsflash.

This just in…

The Buddhist Channel reports that, “A Japanese Buddhist monk is getting down with rap music. Kansho Tagai, aka Happiness Kansho or Mr Happiness, learned to rap at the age of 47, and the shaven-headed chief monk of Tokyo’s Kyooji temple is doing a pretty good job of opening the religious doors to young fans. (video below)

Here’s some of the happy monks lyrics…“I came to this world to help you out of suffering. My name is Shaka Munibutsu (Gautama Siddhartha). Say baby, listen to me. Everyone’s my cute baby. I’m here to help you out of suffering and pain.. .”

[Read more →]