Think Happy!

I’ve got a couple of posts in the pipe-line on teeth-grinding (or “bruxism”, to use the medical term), but in the meantime…

Who couldn’t use a little bit more good luck?
Richard Wiseman, professor at University of Hertfordshire has made a study of lucky people. Why are some people lucky and others not? Can you learn [...]

Over at the Aikiweb forums, there was a discussion in October, prompted by the question: ‘What does your Aikido practice teach you that your religious/spiritual/philosophical practice teaches you that makes you a better person?’
Some of the answers were so enlightening that I thought they merited discussion on this blog. The question that they provoke for [...]

At some point, I will write a post on the value of laughter. However, I’m suspect that such a view is intuitive enough to need little defence. So, for now, I will simply leave you with these wonderful sayings from the unmatched Jack Handey:
“I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world [...]

There’s a question that I’m sure many of us have pondered a number of times. Sometimes it comes out of a sense of frustration. Sometimes it’s a wonderful means of brain-storming. This afternoon, it opened up a whole series of new questions for me:
If you could go back in time 10 years and give yourself [...]

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I should probably be putting this in the aggregator, but it is so good I wanted to share it with all of you: How to Transition from Work to Play
I particularly appreciated this point:
Unwind the Mind. This can be done before you leave work or first thing when you arrive home. Take 5-15 minutes to [...]

After toying with a number of different options for an aggregator of happiness posts throughout the web, I have finally decided on a tumblr approach.
You can find the new Think Happy Aggregator here: http://thinkhappy.tumblr.com/ 
Many thanks to those of you who agreed to take part in the aggregator. I hope this is a solution that will [...]

The Think Happy Aggregator has been disabled until we can find a more suitable format. We will return shortly with excerpts and links to great content across the web.
Our aim is to have a fuller-featured version of the Google Reader listing that you see in the right-hand column of the home page.
Thanks for your patience [...]

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series: Quitting Coca-ColaPreparing to Quit Coke
When it came to finally kicking my Cola habit, there were only really a few steps to take. However, before I was ready to drink my last Coke, there were a few preparatory tasks I had to get done. (The very [...]