If you're feeling frustration more
than happiness in your days as a stay - at - home mom, maybe it's time to explore your options.
Not exact matches
Rather
than zeroing
in on a specific review, «we look at our overall data, including internal and external surveys on employee
happiness, turnover rates, et cetera.»
These links between
happiness and time use are worrying news, as the current generation of teens (whom I call «iGen»
in my book of the same name) spends more time with screens
than any previous generation.
But as bestselling author and Oprah - anointed
happiness expert Shawn Achor pointed out on
in an excerpt from his new book on the TED Ideas blog recently, that sort of praise — well intentioned as it might be — actually does more harm
than good.
If so, you may be the type of person
happiness expert Gretchen Rubin calls an Eeyore — someone who'd rather eat their iphone
than give themselves a contentment score
in the 90s.
She has more
than 25 years of experience
in corporate and startup ventures, and speaks widely on combining strategic and creative thinking for optimum success and
happiness.
In top - down power structures, employees are viewed as worker bees and considered to be objects or expenses rather
than assets; there is little concern for their
happiness or well - being, since the motive for hiring them was purely productivity and profit.
The American Meteorological Society published research
in 2011 that found current temperature has a bigger effect on our
happiness than variables like wind speed and humidity, or even the average temperature over the course of a day.
As much as I respect a lot of the
happiness work out there, most of it is either anchored
in psychology practice or spirituality, or matters that are a little softer
than what today's typical person who prioritizes logic needs to understand.
Gretchen Rubin, the bestselling author of The
Happiness Project, Better
Than Before and The Four Tendencies, offers advice about how to be happy
in her popular podcast which she co-hosts with her younger sister, Elizabeth Craft.
And
in individual jobs, he writes,
happiness has more to do with personal control
than with compensation.
And you'll find far greater
happiness in managing them
than in trying to repress them.
There was no better way to become a popular kid
in school or to accomplish middle - class family peace and
happiness than an afternoon at McDonald's.
But for most of us, we work harder and longer hours
than ever before, believing that by doing so, we'll find the
happiness and success we want
in our lives.
The takeaway: «Small, concrete goals designed to improve the well being of others are more likely to lead to
happiness for the giver
than are acts with large, abstract goals — despite people's intuitions to the contrary,» and keeping that fact
in mind can provide a considerable boost to your well being.
Your habits create
happiness more
than anything else
in life.
One of those who find
in the discipline more ideology
than science, Orrell argues against 10 principles of economic orthodoxy, including the rationality and predictability of the market and its potential to provide
happiness.
And with a growing body of research that suggests employee
happiness yields a promising return on investment, many employers are interested
in perking up their workers with more
than just K - Cup coffee.
Those
in the
happiness control group were up to 12 percent more efficient
in completing the tasks
than their sad, stressed counterparts.
If you want more
happiness and joy
in your life
than smiling is definitely a good start, since other things mentioned above require not just change
in your behavior but also your mindset.
If our American culture is more Hobbesian
than Hobbes
in its incapacity to supply a summum bonum, unable even to choose between
happiness and individuality, de Sade's challenge becomes a more serious question
than normal opinion dares take seriously.
Far from condoning every destruction of nature that is executed
in the name of human purposes, the maximal
happiness principle prescribes such sacrifice only when the human possibilities are thereby greater
than they would otherwise be.
Reasoning with people of faith is more tricky
than the
happiness one finds by abandoning their own faith
in religious delusion.
Thus, because the ultimate objective, the totality to which my nature is attuned has been made manifest to me, the powers of my being begin spontaneously to vibrate
in accord with a single note of incredible richness wherein I can distinguish the most discordant tendencies effortlessly resolved: the excitement of action and the delight of passivity: the joy of possessing and the thrill of reaching out beyond what one possesses; the pride
in growing and the
happiness of being lost
in what is greater
than oneself.
Thus the «incarnational» counter to contemporary Gnosticism and its ideology of «you are what you say you are» (irrespective, for example, of biology) will be less an argument
than a demonstration: living
in concord with the moral truths built into the world and into us, which lead to beatitude or
happiness.
hi, listen america when it is about islam,
than i am or was your judge maker president maker economy maker force maker etc well there is no
happiness in it, founder type law maker but you people do not deserve to be good, don't worry i play worldwide france swiss russ eng uk pol etc any where you want me to come i will be there, i learn to hate my self
in usa because i am muslim and the next is infidels nation
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).
It is meaningful to say that one thing is higher or better
than, or superior to (or has more of some variable property not a mere deficiency
than), another; but this meaning is not simply univocal, since x may be better
than y
in one respect, say
in ethical goodness, and not better
in another, say
in happiness.
Teams from the London School of Economics and Erasmus University Medical Center
in the Netherlands found that involvement
in organized religion was more effective at producing «sustained
happiness»
than sports, political groups, charity work or continuing educational efforts.
Just as we saw that
in healthy - mindedness there are shallower and profounder levels,
happiness like that of the mere animal, and more regenerate of
happiness, so also are there different levels of the morbid mind, and the one is much more formidable
than the other.
If the married persons
in his congregation were asked to rate the relative
happiness of their nuptial relationship, fewer
than half would rate them as «very happy» (Ibid.
This refuge once known will produce reaction on the
happiness even of those who remain there, by warning their task - masters that when the evils of Egyptian oppression became heavier
than those of the abandonment of country, another Canaan is open where their subjects will be received as brothers and secured against like oppression by a participation
in the right of self - government.
Thus, external circumstances rather
than mental health could be the decisive factor
in determining such a person's
happiness.)
As societies modernize, doctrine is expected to focus more on
happiness in this life
than on other - worldly compensations.
No one has contributed more to this discussion
than your neighbor
in Alberta, Mark Anielski,
in his recent book on the economics of
happiness.
atheism is a cop - out for lazy persons who are
in need of experiencing
happiness and truth rather
than temporal pleasures.
(Ex-Catholic, now atheist) Julia Sweeney's monologue «Letting Go Of God» will be the final nail
in the coffin of religious belief / faith and is and will continue to be more effective
than any money - generating book or blog on the historical Jesus, your «Ultimate
Happiness Prescription», atheism or secularism.
For the Christians, every person is more
than a Roman, and everyone who looks to Rome for security and
happiness is looking
in the wrong place.
My savior is myself, because if I believe
in myself, I can go farther
than any person and find true
happiness.
(Ex-Catholic, now atheist) Julia Sweeney's monologue «Letting Go Of God» will be one of the final nails
in the coffin of religious belief / faith and is and will continue to be more effective
than any money - generating book or blog on the historical Jesus or your «Ultimate
Happiness Prescription».
And the moment we renounce the absurd notion that a thing is exploded away as soon as it is classed with others, or its origin is shown; the moment we agree to stand by experimental results and inner quality,
in judging of values — who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and
happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can with other varieties of melancholy,
happiness, and trance,
than by refusing to consider their place
in any more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether?
But I would rather be here
in this imperfect place
than outside where I see Grace disappearing, where most have lost faith
in the world that pushes it's children into employment where money, power and influence is the only road to
happiness, where dog eat dog is the Tag Line which tries to conceal avarice by saying The Wealth creators help the poor as it eventually trickles down.
I can stand everything — even though that horrible demon, more dreadful
than death, the king of terrors, even though madness were to hold up before my eyes the motley of the fool, and I understood by its look that it was I who must put it on, I still am able to save my soul, if only it is more to me
than my earthly
happiness that my love to God should triumph
in me.
If one believes that humans are ultimately material creatures who find their
happiness in this world, if one believes that there is no higher intimacy
than that of sex, then the logic of radical inclusion can not help but allow — can not help but demand — that the disabled have sex.
In addition, the church must convince its members that personal
happiness consists of more
than material possessions.
Indeed, the tormented Hazel Motes
in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood appears to have more
in common with the tormented apostle Paul
than those, like us, who have found
happiness in ministry.
Our human
happiness is found there, at a level much deeper
than in a superficial «pleasant feeling.»
«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.»
(Ex-Catholic, now atheist) Julia Sweeney's monologue «Letting Go Of God» will be one of the final nails
in the coffin of religious belief / faith and is and will continue to be more effective
than any money - generating book or blog on the historical Jesus, your «Ultimate
Happiness Prescription», atheism or secularism.
Having conversations that are more tense
than tidy shows you understand that
happiness in your marriage isn't the product of constant affirmation, empty compliments, thoughtless submission and consistent states of euphoria.