What really makes us happy? It’s not necessarily what you think. Here are Dr. Laurie Santos’ top 10 insights from her course on the science of well-being. And all of them you can start today.
How much time do you spend thinking about your investments? If you are like most people probably not a lot. To take it further how much time do you spend thinking about how you invest in your self. Probably even less time. And yet every moment of every day is spent investing in ourselves in different ways.
Dry January…Is it worth the sacrifice?
To start out my year, I jumped on the dry January bandwagon. I wanted to see if not drinking for a month would increase my energy, health, happiness, or anything else. I have more than a few friends who have talked about how much better they feel by not drinking, so thought it would be worth trying.
So how did it go, you may ask?
I love new year’s resolutions. I feel like it is a fun excuse to try some new habit, challenge myself in a small way. But, let’s face it, resolutions are made to be broken. Less than 50% of people last 6 months with their resolution, with 30% not even lasting one month. What if instead of resolutions we set goals for the year…would they be as easy to break? Would they be 10x more inspiring? Would we really change our lives?
Work Life Balance
As a working parent, it is hard not to have stress…there is so much to do and not enough time in the day. It reminded me of why I left the corporate world in the first place…there was too much stress in my life and for our family and it landed me in the hospital. Now it won’t land everyone in the hospital, but it still affects your health. In thinking about this issues, I was looking back at old blog posts from Hope Post Kids and found this one that I wrote about stress. It applied 3 years ago and applies today, especially with the holidays coming up and stress naturally increasing during this busy time period.
Life, Happiness
There is an incredible number of things that we tolerate every day and don’t even notice. Some are a big deal (poor friendships) and some are less of big deal (clutter), but they all suck our energy and happiness just a little. Some tolerations suck more energy than others. But imagine, if you could free up the brain space and energy you waste thinking about these tolerations and how much freer you could feel?!
