Thxthxthx: The Art of Finding Happiness in Everyday Gratitude. By Maria Popova What laundry and bee stings have to do with the secret of happiness. We live in a culture with far, far too much pessimism, cynicism and dystopianism going around. It’s easy to dismiss any inkling of positivity as self-serving Pollyannism, yet there’s plenty of evidence that recognizing our simple blessings greatly increases our well-being. I’m certainly a believer. I’ve been a longtime fan of Leah Dieterich‘s fantastic THXTHXTHX thank-you-note-a-day blog and, this week, it’s joining this running list of blog-turned-book success stories with the publication of the truly wonderful book of the same name, thxthxthx: Thank Goodness for Everything — a lovely compendium of everyday gratitude in the form of 200 of Dieterich’s original handwritten thank-you notes on everything from clean sheets to empty bars to the “th” sound.
An speaking of gratitude, a big “thank you” to Jason Bitner of Cassette From My Ex fame for flagging this. Donating = Loving Share on Tumblr. The Pursuit of Happy. Happy. RowdyKittens — social change through simple living. Consumers Find Ways to Spend Less and Find Happiness. David hieatt. I get asked this a lot. But I’ll be honest with you, I am no expert. I have had to learn a lot of this stuff the hard way. Mistakes are good teachers, if you don’t repeat them. I share this in the hope of it being of some use. 1, The shares you sell at the beginning will cost you the most. The shares you sell at the beginning are the ones you get the least amount of money for, and yet cost you the most in terms of the percentage of equity you have to give away. 2, How to build something without funding? Well, you could use your savings. Another way to get your company going is to keep your job, and start it part-time.
This way of starting is called Bootstrapping. The problem with failure is it can take a long time and be costly. 3, A track record helps. Raising money is helped if you have some success elsewhere. 4, Being first helps. If you have a digital idea that hasn’t been done before, it maybe better to raise as much money as you can. It can happen. 6, Split the Share types. Consumers Find Ways to Spend Less and Find Happiness.
David hieatt. (Transcript LCC Talk – Jan 14th 2011) Good morning, thank you for asking me to come and speak. I would like to talk to you today about a two words. They are ‘Love’ and ‘Purpose’. I believe if you can bring these two things together into your work, they will help to bring you success and happiness. Together they are a much more of a powerful motivation for you than either one is on its own. Firstly, I want talk about ‘Love.’ I could be wrong, but I think Mickey has found something he loves doing. If I can only scrape a living, at least it’s a living worth scraping. — Mickey Smith If you are lucky enough to find something you love doing, you are at an incredible advantage in life.
For you, work will never feel like work, no matter how hard you work at it. Without wishing to be too morbid, it’s good to remind ourselves that we will all be much longer dead than we are alive. I think you owe it to yourself to, by hook or by crook, to make sure that you do ‘Your Love’ for a living. Www.hiut.co.uk. The Future Of Research For Consumer Insights. Marketing research is an industry that operates at the intersection of professional and academic side of advertising. In fact, “advertising research” is an aggregation of methodologies (and theories) developed in departments of anthropology, psychology, sociology, statistics, visual arts, and other fields. Last month, the Journal of Advertising Research published an article titled “The Shape of Marketing Research in 2021″.
A PDF of the full paper can be downloaded below with full credits, as it is truly a collaborative effort by seven contributors. Here are some key takeaways to keep in mind as you read their work. What Data Sources Will Impact Consumer Research? Mobile fundamentally lends itself to geographic targeting and the provision of real-time data. 3 Ways to Involve Consumers in Helping Client Decision Making Brand Communities enhance a firm’s ability to interact with consumers. Insights Management: Tips for Synthesizing Data Sources Advertising Research Foundation. TEDxObserver 2011: Videos | TEDx. Americans smile all the time as if they are plugged in. The social role of politeness in Russia is extremely low. Unwelcoming service has become one of the manifestations of this public flaw in the country.
Muscovites are considered those who smile least among the residents of other Russian cities. A poll conducted by ROMIR Monitoring showed that 88 percent of Russians slam Muscovites for their rudeness. Rudeness and indifference of personnel hurts consumers morally and causes financial damage to companies. There is a unique proverb in the Russian language, which probably does not exist in other languages. A sales woman from Voronezh was hospitalized to a mental institution because the store director would always smile at her. "Keep smiling! " Specialists concluded a long time ago that a difference in smiles is a difference in cultures. Why do the Russians smile so little? A smile in the service industry in the West (as well as in the East) is a demonstration of politeness. For some reason, a smile makes a Russian person suspicious.
10 steps to happiness | Money. In future we shall all be able to find happiness. It will lurk, hopefully, deep in a Himalayan forest and seekers will have to drive for 20 minutes down a dirt track to reach it. At the end of it, the government of Bhutan – the Buddhist kingdom which has suffered a recent surge in suicides – envisages a Gross National Happiness centre where citizens can relearn the balance between the spiritual and the material. Bhutan's considerably more powerful neighbour, China, is now muscling in on the act with a new "happiness index" to evaluate the work of local government officials in some provinces.
Its impact will be watched, no doubt with interest, by David Cameron's government, which is planning its own assessment of the nation's spirits. Stress is the prompt for this official concern. Economist John Maynard Keynes imagined a 15-hour week by the beginning of the 21st century, because he thought we'd no longer have to work long hours to meet our material needs. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Scott Adams Blog: Happiness Engineering 03/17/2011. It occurred to me recently that I have developed quite a few tricks for engineering my own happiness. Allow me to share a few. Some are more obvious than others. Food - Observe your own mood, and that of others, in the context of how recently they have eaten. If there's a hothead in your circle, notice that his anger is greatest before meals, when hunger is highest, and rarely does he explode during meals or just after. When you feel agitated, try eating some carbs. They're like a miracle drug.
Exercise - When I've exercised in the past day, almost nothing bothers me. Goals - I make it a habit to have at least one project brewing at all times that has a non-zero chance of changing the planet, or making a billion dollars, or both. Meaning - If you're young and you haven't yet achieved some level of success by your own standards, by all means make yourself your own first priority. Luckily, this is one of the easiest habits you can ever break. Learn - Feed your brain.