As the weeks wore on, along with keeping a food journal, I added a new monitoring habit: No seconds. When people preplate their food and eat just one helping, they eat about 14 percent less than when...
As I turned the key and pushed open the front door, as I crossed the threshold, I thought how breathtaking, how fleeting, how precious was my ordinary day Now is now. Here is my treasure.
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Another study suggested that getting one extra hour of sleep each night would do more for a person's happiness than getting a $60,000 raise.
Although people often assume that cravings intensify over time, research shows that with active distraction, urges—even strong urges—usually subside within about fifteen minutes.Drawing on intrinsic m...
Also, there was a Princeton study that found that visual clutter reduces your ability to focus and process information.
Almost always, if I make a commitment, I can stick to it, even without outside help.
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, whi...
About 30 to 50 percent of happiness is genetically determined; about 10 to 20 percent reflects life circumstances (such as age, gender, health, marital status, income, occupation); and the rest is ver...
A routine is a string of habits, and a ritual is a habit charged with transcendent meaning.
A study of workers in various industries showed that their job satisfaction was less tied to their salaries than to how their salaries compared to their coworkers’ salaries. People understand the sign...
A happy home wasn’t a place that I could furnish, but an attitude of mind I must develop.
A habit requires no decision from me, because I’ve already decided.
Perhaps the most acute source of happiness from writing was the happiness of expressing a very complicated idea–the kind of idea that takes hundreds of pages to capture.
Arriving rarely makes you as happy as you anticipate.p 84
الزواج الناجح أحد أهم وأقوى العوامل المرتبطة بالسعادة
You have to do that kind of work for yourself. If you do it for other people, you end up wanting them to acknowledge it and to be grateful and to give you credit. If you do it for yourself, you don't...
When dealing with a child who refuses to meet an expectation, it’s important to try to understand the reason for that child’s behavior. While a Rebel child might think, You can’t make me, a Questioner...
The Hawthorne effect, in which people being studied improve their performance, simply because of the extra attention they’re getting. In
Studies show that the absence of feeling bad isn’t enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good. One