How to Find Happiness: 7 Timeless Tips from the Last 2500 Years What do you want? A great job? A fulfilling relationship? Go sailing around the Pacific for a few years in your very own luxurious boat? Or just to get along better with yourself? Perhaps you want one of more of those things. One good way to find a few useful, life-improving and time-tested tips is to look back. And if you want to learn much more about inner happiness then have a look at my 12-week Self-Esteem Course. 1. Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham LincolnVery little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.Marcus Aurelius AntoninusThe world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.Ludwig Wittgenstein How your view yourself and your world are conscious choices and habits. You can choose to find happiness in small, everyday things. And your choices controls much of how much happiness your will find and create in your life. 2. You only have now. 3. 4. 5. 6. A pretty obvious one.
A Mad Scientist's 50 Tools for Sustainable Communities - Leah Messinger - Life Marcin Jakubowski's plan to create low-cost, open-source machines that can make everything you can find in a Walmart The "Liberator" Compressed Earth Brick Press, designed by Open Source Ecology. Courtesy of Open Source Ecology In the middle of rural Missouri there is a physicist-turned-farmer looking to redefine the way we build the world. Marcin Jakubowski is the mastermind behind a group of DIY enthusiasts known as Open Source Ecology and their main project, the Global Village Construction Set. The network of engineers, tinkerers, and farmers is working to fabricate 50 different low-cost industrial machines. The organization's final goal? As Valentine points out, "Every single one of [the machines] already exist in real life. All of the machines, from the tractors to the laser cutter to the backhoe to the cement mixer, are designed to be modular, require only one engine, and be built with interchangeable parts so that a single machine can perform multiple functions. But there's more.
10 Secrets to Success What is it that makes people successful and I mean really successful compared to you or me? Are they smarter or do they work harder? Are they risk takers or have powerful and influential friends? The financial newspaper Investors Business Daily (IBD) asked these same questions a few years ago and started a multi-year search for the answer. I decided to reproduce the list here and comment on each of the traits in hopes of motivating you and myself in the process. I originally came across this list when I was staring at some papers on a refrigerator owned by someone who was very successful – both personally and financially. It wasn’t until the morning after our little ‘party’ that I noticed something taped to the refrigerator – something that impacts me each time I read it. The problem was, after a couple of months I forgot about the secrets and they fell by the wayside. 1. Always be positive. This trait has to be one of the most important in the entire list. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Practical Happiness & Awesomeness Tips – The Positivity Blog Secrets of Success Dr. Paul Secrets to Success: 13 Fundamentals I have spent many years studying and analyzing what successful people do in every walk of life and have come to the following conclusion: there is no single formula for achieving success in any endeavor. But there are core traits that great leaders share in common and I have outlined these below. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Successful communicators are warm, friendly, flexible, humorous and always helpful. With the people that you know, which ones do you look forward to and enjoy talking with? 9. Their thinking is flexible and focused on effective strategies, not on win lose solutions. 10. A pure soul is a rare find, while most people contain a mixture of lovable and destructive qualities. It is important that you transform your self-hatred to self love in an non-egotistical fashion. 11. This Inner directed journey, with its internal compass, will put you in touch and in control of your very being, your moods, thoughts and eternal wisdom. 12. 13.
Tiny house movement is thriving despite real estate bust As Americans downsize in the aftermath of a colossal real estate bust, at least one tiny corner of the housing market appears to be thriving. To save money or simplify their lives, a small but growing number of Americans are buying or building homes that could fit inside many people's living rooms, according to entrepreneurs in the small house industry. Some put these wheeled homes in their backyards to use as offices, studios or extra bedrooms. Others use them as mobile vacation homes they can park in the woods. "It's very un-American in the sense that living small means consuming less," said Jay Shafer, 46, co-founder of the Small House Society, sitting on the porch of his wooden cabin in California wine country. Shafer, author of "The Small House Book," built the 89-square-foot house himself a decade ago and lived in it full-time until his son was born last year. He and his family now live in relatively sprawling 500-square foot home next to the tiny one. California's mini-mecca
Life balance, life change and work-life balance - personal happiness, well-being, fulfillment - how to change it home » self/personal development » life balance, happiness and life change ideas for happiness and life change - tips and tools for work-life balance The traditional pattern of work/life is becoming obsolete, and it needs to, because for many people it's extremely unbalanced. No wonder the life insurance and pensions industries are (were) so profitable.. Until recent times hardly anyone lived long enough to collect what they'd paid in, let alone what their policies were worth. Millions lurched from miserable work to pointless retirement. This is the work/life mindset of the mid-1900s. You have a choice to create your own mindset, and to reject the ideas of past generations and old-style employers and the government of the day (who even with the best intentions will always tend to be a generation behind modern ideas). If you are among the many (and seemingly increasing numbers of) people who are happy with work, that's great. 1. 2. Very few people make a fortune doing something they hate.
ThinkNice.com Quotes can pick you up when you are down, give purpose and meaning to those in need, and turn a bad day into a good one. Quotes also sometimes shed light onto the personalities of figures from the past and provide inspiration of all kinds. Below we have a collection of cute, inspirational and artistic quotes designed to be printed out and used as wall pin-ups. Enjoy! “You Are the Closest I Will Ever Come to Magic” “My attitude is based on how you treat me.” “If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done.” “Happy Girls Are the Prettiest” “Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen.” “Do What You Can with What You Have Where You Are” “The People Who Know The Least About You Always Have The Most To Say.” Albert Einstein Quote “Logic will get you from A to Z: Imagination will get you everywhere.” “Thou Shall Not Take Sh! “Your Face is Just Fine, But You’ll Have To Put A Bag Over That Personality.” “Just Because I Cannot See It, Doesn’t Mean I Can’t Believe It”