Category: Happiness

“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

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Setting goals is an essential technique to  accomplishing what we truly want in our lives, and more importantly —living a more fulfilling life. And the importance of goal setting is only increasing as our ability to focus continues to diminish with the rise of new media and technology.

Early in my career, when I was a college coach, I thought the solution to my problems was these two words: “if only.” If only I had more scholarship money, we’d win more. If only I had a better budget, we’d win more. If only I had better facilities, we’d win more.

Examples of how to apply these methods in the most powerful ways will also be supplied, helping to ensure that those who apply these lessons can stop wishing for change in their personal lives – and use the amazing power within themselves to make it happen once and for all.

IN GETTING THERE: A BOOK OF MENTORS, THE LAUDED CREATOR CANDIDLY REVEALS HIS YEARS OF STRUGGLE—AND HIS EVENTUAL PATH TO SUCCESS.

Here’s a question for you: Do you control your day or do you simply react to it? Or to put it another way—how often do you feel like all you did was keep your head above water?

How to succeed at self-sabotage.

When faced with setbacks and challenges, we’ve all received the well-meaning advice to “stay positive.” The greater the challenge, the more this glass-half-full wisdom can come across as Pollyannaish and unrealistic. It’s hard to find the motivation to focus on the positive when positivity seems like nothing more than wishful thinking.

Beginning with his first novel in 1847, Anthony Trollope wrote at an incredible pace. Over the next 38 years, he published 47 novels, 18 works of non-fiction, 12 short stories, 2 plays, and an assortment of articles and letters.

This might surprise you: Successful entrepreneurs say “no” a lot. We’re taught that we should say “yes” to almost everything in our society, yet the most successful among us say “no”. Everyone from Warren Buffett, to Oprah Winfrey, and Steve Jobsreportedly say “no” to several everyday things. Most importantly, those no’s skyrocket their success.

Steven Jae Johnson has enjoyed life as a musician, an actor, a screenwriter, & now as the author of “Walk, Don’t Run: A Rockin’ and Rollin’ Memoir.” He and Academy Award Winner Edward James Olmos have enjoyed a forty year working relationship. They met in high school when they were both young musicians with dreams of stardom. Their friendship has continued. Steven is the archivist of their history as struggling musicians & actors in Hollywood through four decades.

The main thing I learned is that happiness is something you create -- it is not something to achieve. It is a path you choose, not a destination to arrive at. Check out each of the 12 steps:

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Most people live their life without knowing better. They cruise on autopilot, letting their job slowly suck the life out of them. They feel bitter and lost.

Writing things down is a powerful habit. Even if you throw it away, you still get the benefits.

Your happiness is, above all other things, your most important asset. Truly happy people are more successful in their career pursuits, have better relationships, and are in better health. This is because happiness leads to motivation and motivation drives success in these three areas. The challenge is becoming a happy person. There are two important things to understand about happiness. The first is that happiness as an internal trait does not come from external sources. The second is that happiness is not a single character trait that can be developed, it is the result of developing 5 different positive character traits.

Humor is attractive to men and women — but not in the same way. The research shows women like men who make them laugh, and men like women who laugh at their jokes.

Are you drowning under the sea of information on personal development? You wonder what you should really focus on in order to get results? It is while I was trying to answer that question that I came up with 5 fundamental rules. I believe that these 5 rules are absolutely necessary for personal success. I called them: “the 5 commandments of personal development”

The number one skill that will set you apart from 99% of the world’s highly distractible knowledge workers is the ability to ruthlessly single-task. Here’s why:

We don't know much about computer hacking here at Cracked, because that stuff involves numbers, but we've come across a whole bunch of different crazy brain and body hacks over the years. The following pages will help you change reality for yourself and others, stop pain by coughing, and even make yourself more attractive to the opposite sex. Years of gathered wisdom are at your disposal. Read on:

I invite you to step up your level of accountability (with me) and try these three ways of giving love to yourself on a weekly basis.

Will a time ever come when you stop self-sabotaging? A time when you, once and for all, become your greatest self and live happily ever after?

In reality, scheduling and keeping that “me” time is one of the most important things on your calendar.

The ability to manage your emotions and remain calm under pressure has a direct link to your performance. TalentSmart has conducted research with more than a million people, and we’ve found that 90% of top performers are skilled at managing their emotions in times of stress in order to remain calm and in control.

Time blocking is the concept of sitting down once a week for just five minutes and scheduling time for yourself.

Enjoy this summary of John Di Lemme's inspirational teaching: *11* Secret Steps to Absolutely Develop a Million Dollar Lifestyle Free from Fear, Worry and the Anxiety on What to do Next in Life!

Debbie Hampton recovered from decades of unhealthy thinking and depression, a suicide attempt, and resulting brain injury to become an inspirational and educational writer on brain, emotional, and mental health. Enjoy our interview!

Some people will never forgive, they are so loyal to their anger and hatred that they will stress and hurt themselves physically and psychologically for the rest of their lives because they will look at forgiveness as some sort of weakness , but that’s not true. It takes a very strong and wise person to forgive, to choose to be better than bitter and here’s how you do it...

After some Gym-time, Fireball meets up with Actor Bill Allen of RAD for some BMX fun. Then, off to the beach for waves.

It’s time to get real about the Law of Attraction, reject “magical thinking” and respect life’s mystery says Rev. Dr. Jim Lockard, a Religious Science minister.

Recently, a question was posed to those over the age of 60. The question was this: “What advice would you give to those who are half your age?” While the question seems simple, the answers may surprise you.

It turns out how you approach your sleep and waking routine is largely a developed habit rather than a genetic trait. And if you’re like me, there may some lifestyle choices that you make which affect the quality of your sleep.

You don’t always have to be so optimistic about everything because there’s actually a lot of power in negative thinking. This video explains why being too optimistic about your future goals might actually hamper them instead of help them.

It was a cold January morning in California when a woman living on the streets uttered three words that forever altered my life.

Whilst working with dying people, Bonnie recorded the dying thoughts of her patient on her blog Inspiration and Chai, which got so much attention the she wrote a book “The Top Five Regrets of the Dying”. The top five regrets of people on their deathbed were...

By learning how to master the seven things that are within our control, you will start to make more net positive decisions, fewer net negative ones, and find that empowering, positive behaviors become second nature. So let go of all the stuff you can't control and start using your time to master what you can control. Before you know it, you'll be living your best life ever!

I had to make some serious changes to make my life simpler, easier, and more enjoyable. Here’s what I figured out.

Learn one of these 10 things in the next 10 minutes, and you'll be more productive for the rest of your life.

What can protect you from toxic people, keep painful memories in their place, keep you safe and strong, and help you manage your feelings?

Fast Company recently collected productivity tips from several dozen top designers, and one of the recurring themes was the power of the reading break to re-energize and reflect.

Time management, we believe, is the solution to our busyness: if we could organize our time better, we’d be less overwhelmed, happier, and more effective. We are completely wrong on all three counts, and it’s damaging our lives and our careers.

Everyone of us caught ourselves doing nothing and pretending to be busy. Admit it, every day we’re wasting our time surfing through the web, watching funny videos and other things. But when we come face to face with a meaningful work, we say “I’ll do it tomorrow." And every time tomorrow becomes the busiest day of the week.

Motivation is great when you’ve got it. It makes you excited about things and you’re eager to put your nose to the grindstone and start working. When you don’t have it, however, your productivity can plummet. Instead, stop relying on motivation and start creating systems of habits to get things done.

Instead of questioning where your life went wrong, you can start, today, to live it on purpose.  That means you actively take charge of your life; you’re responsible for the outcome, and where you are now is a sum of all the decisions you’ve made to date. That’s wonderful news because that means: if you don’t like where you’re at, BOOM you have the power to change it.

We all have habits. But when they get between you and your goals, it's time to pinpoint those habits and put a stop to them.

Gratitude leads to greatness.  It can literally turn what you have into more than enough, jobs into joy, chaos into order, uncertainty into clarity, and bring peace to an otherwise chaotic day.

You can move closer to your ideal work and life. Here's how.

We’ve rounded up 11 science-backed strategies for getting people to like you, to buy stuff, and to give you what you’re after. All of them will leave you feeling more powerful.