My research had revealed that challenge and novelty are key elements to happiness. The brain is stimulated by surprise, and successfully dealing with an unexpected situation gives a powerful sense of...
Don't grieve limitations
In fact, the Upholder commitment to meeting expectations can sometimes make Upholders seem…cold. There’s a relentless quality to Upholders. They’re going to do what must be done even, sometimes, if th...
We all know the secret of dieting - eat better, eat less, exercise more - it's the application that's challenging.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Autobiography
Aaron Beck, founder of cognitive behavioral therapy, maintains that people find it easy to notice what their partners do wrong, but not what they do right, so he suggests keeping marriage diaries to t...
What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while. You
You can choose what you do; you can’t choose what you like to do.
Pierre Reverdy: There is no love; there are only proofs of love.
The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.
I did, however, vow to stop reading books that I didn’t enjoy. I used to pride myself on finishing every book I started—no longer.
Happy people make people happy, but I can’t make someone be happy, and No one else can make me happy.
Epicurus agreed, albeit in slightly more poetic phraseology: Of all the things that wisdom provides for living one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship.
Upholder, I see its dark side, too
One regrets the loss even of one’s worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one’s personality. —OSCAR WILDE
Read the news every morning or Call one client each day are easy to monitor, while vague resolutions such as Be more informed or Cultivate better client relationships are hard to monitor....Accurate m...
Boredom can be important. That’s when you have to figure out what you want to do.
Secret of Adulthood: Make sure the things we do to make ourselves feel better don’t make us feel worse.
Happiness, wrote Yeats, is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.
Do once in a while.
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