August 2010 Happiness Project: Have FUN!
August 6, 2010 by blackgirlgrown
Filed under 2010 happiness project, personal development, work/life balance
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?)
June 2, 2010 by blackgirlgrown
Filed under 2010 happiness project, black women, featured articles, house and home, life
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
May 12, 2010 by blackgirlgrown
Filed under 2010 happiness project, black women, life
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 [...]
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