November 2010 Happiness Project: Attitude Adjustment

Attitude is everything.  And I firmly believe that life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it. This month’s happiness project focus is on ATTITUDE.  Let that marinate for a minute. How does your attitude affect your happiness? Attitude is defined as your manner or disposition, but also describes [...]

Things All Happy People Know

The Black Doctor has a great list of 10 things happy people know.  It’s worth a complete read.  Here, I note some of my favorites: #1. Share Your Happy Thoughts: Let your children know how great it feels to spend the day with them. Brag to your spouse about the unexpected compliment your boss paid [...]

August 2010 Happiness Project: Have FUN!

Gretchen Rubin’s Happiness Project encourages us all to focus on FUN for the month of August. With all that we have going on in our lives, the economy, and the recent jobless numbers, it is sometimes difficult to focus on fun. The drudgery of the daily grind and trying to “get by” make it difficult [...]

June Happiness Project – Order (Mom, Are You Listening?)

This month’s focus is on ORDER.  I am a natural creature of habit and order is important to me.  So I can easily identify on how order in one’s life contributes to a sense of well-being and cultivates happiness. When I think order, I immediately think of clutter.  My mother has a habit of holding [...]

May 2010 Happiness Project: Mindfulness

Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project, writes on her blog the theme for May’s focus: Mindfulness Mindfulness can bring many benefits. It brings clarity and vividness to present experience. It may help people end unhealthy habits and patterns. It can enhance a sense of well-being and calm troubled spirits. The more I think about [...]

Book Recommendation: The Master Method

What: The Master Method by Marco Sies.  The Master Method combines the wisdom of the most powerful teachers and leaders in history. This knowledge has been passed around for thousands of years from teachers to students and can be found recorded in the pages of thousands of wonderful books. These writings of ancient masters as well [...]

March Happiness Project: Work It!

March’s theme for blackgirlgrown’s 2010 Happiness Project is WORK IT!  That’s what we’ve been doing over here at blackgirlgrown.  Happiness Project author Gretchen Rubin notes: I’ve become increasingly convinced that the atmosphere of growth is far more important than generally recognized. Studies show that novelty and challenge—though they can make us uncomfortable, frustrated, uneasy, etc.—are [...]

Building More Happiness in Your Life

Happiness takes work.  Yeah, it doesn’t seem like it should.  Bliss is just supposed to be, not a goal you arrive at.  It requires effort, diligence, and sometimes a little selfishness. As you know we’ve embarked on a Happiness Project here at blackgirlgrown with the help of Gretchen Rubin, author of the New York Times [...]

Balanced Life — Nine Things You Can Do Every Day — Even When You Can’t Do Anything Else

Simple, yes. But extremely important, not just in the action but in the habit. Growing up, I always considered making my bed a chore. Now I understand it is about how you start your day…with purpose. I’m happy to report I accomplish about seven of the nine simple things. I need to work on “jumping [...]

February Happiness Project: Give Love

February’s theme for blackgirlgrown’s 2010 Happiness Project is LOVE.  Happiness Project author Gretchen Rubin notes that the more love in your life, the happier you are.  This is in no means limited to romantic love.  It is the love of family, friends, children, coworkers, and mankind.    A French proverb that I’ve quoted a million [...]

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