Hello all, here is this weeks pick from my newsletter. I hope you enjoy. This week I thought it would be fun to do a theme week since I haven't done one for awhile. The subject is happiness and I hope to bring you some great quotes about happiness, and I'd love to hear any definition or quotes that might be your favorites. I have another little project for you too, so be prepared!!! I thought the best place to start was a formula for happiness I recently ran across while reading The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin, a book I highly recommend. To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right in an atmosphere of growth. Source : The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin Gretchen Rubin explains it this way: Feeling good is an important aspect of being happy, the more positive and in tune you felt the great the amount of happiness. As a consequence of that, thinking about why you feel bad helps you find ways to diminish or climate these experiences with actions that lead to more positive results. Feeling right deals with your overall life situation. Does what you are doing feel right to you? Are you in the correct job, is there something else that would more fully complete the person you are? Finally growth brings about new experiences, new learning, advancement, understanding,plus development, all of which contribute heavily to ones sense of happiness. In theory you should be able to use this formula to help improve your own happiness intelligence my focusing on the four parts of the formula. It makes sense to me. What do you think? And just to get you into the right mood here's my first happiness quote for the week. Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Source: Buddha "I will find happiness where the wild river runs through the woods and thunders to the sea." (A Nick Fragment) Have a happy day. Nick Your Other Little Project! Help Me Fill In the Blanks.
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