We live in a world of soundbites and an emphasis on quick fixes – Instagram pithy phrases, Twitter’s 280 characters, the internet full of instant this and 3-easy-steps-to that. But is this really the nature of how we live and grow happier? I have recently been musing here on some keys to happier living, based…
What is the meaning of your life?
Wow, that is a huge opener this week. You are quietly going about your business…working, checking emails, maybe on social media and up pops this blog and That Question. Do I really want to be thinking about the meaning of my life in the middle of all the craziness that is our current lived experience?”…
Learning to accept…ourselves, our lives.
As we continue our musing through the 10 keys for Happier living, as outlined by Action for Happiness, we come to the penultimate: Acceptance. Once again, I am struck by the timing of this. Here in Scotland, as I mentioned last week, Covid-19 restrictions are easing and there are glimmers of hope for more normal…
How resilient are you post Covid-19?
How resilient are you? This is another question – like last week’s about what direction you are going in – that has probably changed from life BC (before Corona). As we continue to muse through the 10 keys to happieness, as outlined by the Action for Happiness folk, how extraordinary that we now come to…
Trying out our way to happiness
What new things have you been trying out recently? As we meander our way through 10 keys for happier living, as outlined by the Action for Happiness folk, we come this week to Trying Out. It seems fitting indeed that this idea of trying out new things – be they skills, ventures, hobbies, opportunities, places…
Why is awareness important?
How aware are you this week of how you are feeling, what you need and how you are coming across to other people? What would you say are the areas of your character that most require some work? Those are big, heavy duty questions but they all point to the same thing: Awareness. Why is…
Exercise makes you happier.
How have your exercise habits changed during lockdown? And do you know that exercise makes you happier? A thornier question, perhaps: If you do know that exercise makes you happier – it is well documented – what are you doing about it? Perhaps you are one of the nearly one million people who downloaded the…
Give grace to others…and yourself
How are things in your household this week? What emotions are running under the surface, and how are those emotions leaking out in the form of perhaps more challenging behaviour? To whom do you perhaps need to give grace? As we continue in this DC world, with no sign of life AC – After Corona…