Money Can’t Buy You Love, But it Can Buy Happiness

At least according to new research on the subject.  And happiness increases as your salary increases up to about $75,000 a year.  At $76,000 and up, your happiness is downhill from there.  Hmm.  That seems counterintuitive.  But hey, they’ve got studies to back it up.  According to The Huffington Post: People’s emotional well-being – happiness [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]