Think Happy!

I’ve been investigating Byron Katie’s Loving What Is recently. (I guess she’d say I’ve been doing the work on The Work!) There’s a lot there that I like. And a lot that I’ll need to come back to.
I’m more than happy learning from people with whom I might not share every opinion. So, my hesitations [...]

There’s a great post over at Dumb Little Man, entitled, 7 How-to-be-happy Lessons That Kids Can Teach Us. I wanted to link to it, because as the father of 3 - yes, three! - girls, I can vouch for every word.
Here are DLM’s points, with some commentary from me at the bottom:

Living in the present
Single [...]

There’s an excellent post over at the Urban Monk that gets straight to the point of what I’ve been waffling around for ages: Change your thoughts and change your life – The Art of Cognitive Reframing.
We never, ever, see the world as it is. Our awareness – our beliefs, past conditionings, upbringing, the list goes [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

One of my hobbies is what geeks-trying-to-sound-cool refer to as Mind Sports. My main interest is in Memory, but I also try to keep up to standard with Speed Reading - which is a skill that comes in useful all the time. With that in mind, I thought that it might be helpful if I [...]

John Wesley, over at Pick the Brain, has posted a wonderful list of online self-improvement resources.
The list includes everything from Productivity to Financial success. Now, if I’m honest the last item disappoints me, because I am regularly frustrated by those who link self-improvement with financial ’success’ - and this is possibly even more common on [...]