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The post lists 10 easy activities you can engage in to increase your happiness and, reading it, you're struck by the fact that some of the ideas are so simple you could do them right now while sitting at your desk.

This one statistic alone should make all employers more interested in boosting bliss: Truly cheerful employees spend about 80 % of their time at work doing what they're there to do; the least content spend only 40 % of their time on job - related activities, according to a survey by workplace happiness consultant and author Jessica Pryce - Jones.

That was the message of a talk by Dr. Miriam Tatzel at the American Psychological Association's 122nd annual convention, which was held recently in Washington, D.C. Presenting her research to the assembled psychologists, Tatzel stressed the importance of playing down consumerism as a route to fulfillment and boiled down the research on the subject into a handful of scientifically validated principles to follow for greater happiness.

According to a study by Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and two colleagues from the University of British Columbia, the amount of money people earn has less influence on their happiness than how they spend it, and those who spend at least some of their money on others are happier than those who do not.

Another that sticks out is «Why happiness at work really matters», a post that Intercom's Managing Editor, John Collins, wrote quickly after attending a talk by Alexander Kjerulf, Chief Happiness Officer ahappiness at work really matters», a post that Intercom's Managing Editor, John Collins, wrote quickly after attending a talk by Alexander Kjerulf, Chief Happiness Officer aHappiness Officer at Woohoo.

«We discovered that the top positive emotions evoked by viral images are amusement, interest, surprise, happiness, delight, pleasure, joy, hope and affection,» says Kerry Jones, inbound marketing manager at Fractl.

Justin Wolfers, an associate professor of business and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, argued those working in the field of happiness economics mistakenly imagine that the world is run by legions of politicians and economists whose love of GDP approaches religious fervor.

The following statistic alone should make all employers more interested in boosting bliss: Truly cheerful employees spend about 80 % of their time at work doing what they're there to do (even happy people need an Instagram break); the least content spend only 40 % of their day on job - related activities, according to a survey by workplace happiness consultant and author Jessica Pryce - Jones.

A recent study led by Professor Andrew Oswald, Dr. Eugenio Proto, and Dr. Daniel Sgroi from the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick investigated the link between happiness and productivity.

By researching top performers at Harvard, the world's largest banks, and Fortune 500 companies, Shawn discovered patterns, which create a happiness advantage for positive outliers — the highest performers at the company.

And I believe understanding this element of human nature — which I'll discuss in the next section — is key to building a life that: a) involves ambitious striving toward goals and having impact in the world, which contributes to a sense of meaning, and b) gives you a shot at realizing true happiness by avoiding a soul - sucking competitive rat race.

For them, at last, there would be some kind of future; some older faces to apply to their unfolding lives, some language in which their identity could be properly discussed, some rubric by which it could be explained - not in terms of sex, or sexual practices, or bars, or subterranean activity, but in terms of their future life stories, their potential loves, their eventual chance at some kind of constructive happiness.»

And if you do this, I really believe, that at some point, maybe not right away, but at some point, the weight of all that junk will taken off of you too, and be replaced by a feeling of peace and happiness.

I guess that C.S. Lewis — here at least — spoke of pleasure rather than of Christian happiness which, of course, can not be found in any outwardly oriented religion if we are not indwelt by the Holy Spirit who gives us love, joy, peace, and much more (Gal 5:22 - 23).

«A developmental task is a task which arises at or about a certain period of the life of an individual, successful achievement of which leads to happiness and to success with later tasks, while failure leads to unhappiness in the individual, disapproval of society, and difficulty with later tasks» (Robert J. Havighurst, quoted by Duvall, op.

But the Christian thinker can be both — by finding a «secular» confirmation for his belief in the God whose suffering love shares in the world's pain while at the same time God's triumphant joy is in part derived from the happiness which the world can know.

«These people,» Solzhenitsyn remarks, «who had experienced on their own hides twenty - four years of Communist happiness, knew by 1941 what as yet no one else in the world knew: That nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning and ingenious than the Bolshevik, the self - styled Soviet regime.»

What if your father was an accountant and raised you to believe that only by being an accountant could you truly find happiness and never gave you any other options, infact threatened to disown you if you even so much as glanced at the attorney booth or medical fields at your school job fair?

The Pursuit of Happiness: Who Is Happy and Why by David G. Myers Morrow, 288 pages, $ 20 With almost a hundred pages of notes, the reader may expect from the professor of social psychology at Michigan's Hope College a tome of off - putting technicality.

Is it not possible that people might be lured by its attractiveness into taking a step like this that would at the same time make possible life and happiness for our descendants?

He felt like someone who has missed happiness by seconds at an appointed place.

Those who die in God's grace are drawn irresistibly by the beauty of God until they arrive at their proper station in the celestial hierarchy and find their complete happiness in adoration of the divine face.

At least we leave open the thought that Satan acts subtly and by indirection, perhaps by including us in a dominant narrative that makes promises about security and happiness that can not be kept.

G. K. Chesterton once summarized his contempt for journalists by remarking, «They can not announce the happiness of mankind at all.

We all know that money does not buy happiness (though it certainly helps) so the statement by Manchester City which claims that Tevez and the conscientious Kia Joorabchian have been attempting to negotiate better terms despite being the highest paid player at the richest club in the world make hism look like the ultimate mercenary footballer.

Hilariously and amazingly on the very last day of the season, we have salvaged some north London and self pride by beating Spurs to second place and there was much joy and happiness at the final whistle on Sunday.

The goals scored by him have come at those times when I never ever expected him to score and by proving me wrong, Giroud has brought to me the greatest JOY and HAPPINESS ever!

It gives me great happiness because I was welcomed here with open arms by everyone at the club and the supporters right from my first day.

Nestled at Prouts Neck in Scarborough Maine, this is a slice of happiness molded by the ocean it sits next to.

No fake smiles from the kids, but true genuine interaction and happiness that you can feel by looking at the photos.»

At any age, crying is a normal response to being overwhelmed by strong feelings, like anger, fear, stress or even happiness.

Dating Big Bird by Laura Zigman, is an entertaining, yet real to life, novel about things not going the way we hoped they would, and how to find true happiness at the end of the tunnel.

Hence, their parenting philosophies may be driven by a need to vicariously live through the child's happiness, provided at all costs, fulfilling their own unmet needs.

I also learned ways to create happiness at any stage of life by better understanding the social and emotional needs that are met inside the family.

If parents want their children to find happiness in life from a wife or a husband, they must look at the message they are sending by the example of their own marriage.

To the Members of the Democratic Party Platform Drafting Committee: At our founding, what made America different from every other country that existed before was a commitment to an ideal that had never been advanced — that all are created equal, endowed by their Creator with the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Expressing happiness at the development, the Inspector General of Police, Acting IGP Ibrahim Idris noted that «this rating is a clear testimony of his determination to turn around the Nigeria Police Force for more efficient service delivery by ensuring that the Force carried out its statutory duties based on international core values of Policing with integrity for a safer Nigeria.

That research in particular inspired his 2008 book Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness, coauthored by Cass Sunstein, now at Harvard Law School.

It was made by Mariah Carey to celebrate her wedding and her newfound happiness at the occasion.

NIH examines indicators such as the track record of graduates in academic medicine positions, time to graduation, overall student happiness, how well the program integrates the medical and scientific training, and most importantly, the quality of the scientists and science available to the MD / PhD students; NIH manifests disapproval or approval of a program by decreasing, increasing, or maintaining the number of funded trainee positions at that institution.

The Children's Worlds study, co-ordinated in England by the Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at York, asked children about all key aspects of their lives including their family and home life, friendships, money and possessions, school life, local area, time use, personal well - being, views on children's rights, and their overall happiness.

«A decrease in general health status that reduces happiness is statistically valued by the amount of family income it would take to completely reverse this reduction in happiness, so that happiness is the same as it was before the decrease in general health status occurred,» Brown stated in the study, which concluded that a year spent in good or excellent health instead of poor or fair health could be valued at $ 41,654.

Not only that, the U.S. has the largest «happiness gap» among parents compared to nonparents in 22 industrialized countries, according to a report by researchers at Baylor University, the University of Texas at Austin and Wake Forest University.

Researchers led by Paul Dolan, Professor of Behavioural Science at LSE, compared levels of happiness in London, Paris and Berlin, interviewing 26,000 residents over three years from 2011 to 2013.

Research by psychologists at Plymouth University showed parents of 10 and 11 - year - olds consistently overestimated their child's happiness, while those with 15 and 16 - year - olds were inclined to underestimate.

Sharon's latest book is Real Happiness At Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace, published by Workman Publishing.

Nature has equipped your body with amazingly sophisticated «happiness» hormones that are triggered by a variety of things, including the rays of the sun streaming through your window at work or at home.

I have often read that scientists have argued that your happiness is largely determined by genes and your state of health at a particular time, including several other factors mostly outside of your control.

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