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Being Right and be Happy at the same time?

Good evening folks, it been ages since i updated this blog. I am so sorry. I was having dinner with my family and we were watching the television programmes at the same time. The show stuck me an enormous thought. Can you be doing the right things and be truly happy?

My answer is an BIG YES!

22 years have passed for me and how about yours? Throughout the past few years, how many things that you are unwilling to do but have to do it just because it is the right thing to do? I bet are must been a few of them. As we all know, we do not like to be force to do stuffs nor doing these things can make us happy. However, how importantly is being correct vs being happy? How much does each of them means to you?

I will say i will rank Happiness above begin right. However, as i mentioned before in earlier postings, committing crimes is not an excuse for gaining happiness. What i have say is simple but applying it to our life is a different situation. Our society(at least mine) has conformed our beliefs. Begin happy and begin right at the same time is not always happening.

Can you be happy with the work you are doing now but you hated the boss?Will you quit your job? Or you just don't like what you are doing now?
Can you let go the person you loved, knowing that he/she will be happier that way or even letting go a relationship that you know you are not happy at all and the another person is suffering as well.
Are you brave enough to make the "correct" decision?

The above questions are just some of my random thoughts. More importantly, have you tried to savage the situation at least on your part? If yes, we chinese say 死而无憾. Meaning, to die without regrets. So the analogy is that if you have put in 100% effort to change to situation, i guess you have the right to throw in the towel.

So are you capable of balancing what rights and be happy at the same thing in your life, work and love? I am still trying to...

Jackson

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My secret formula to Everyday Happiness

HAPPY Day People!

Everyone only has one chance to live. So live to the fullest and happiest. I will advise that we all work the hardest, played the hardest and be happy everyday. So, I am sharing with you my Secret Formula to Everyday Happiness. Is just few simple steps to keep yourself happy throughout the whole day.

Firstly, after you wake up, most of you go to the toilet and brush your teeth. While doing that, look into the mirror and smile to yourself. In your mind, says this, “I am going to have an enjoyable and most importantly, a HAPPY day!”

Next, we have the most important meal of the day. Breakfast! Breakfast can make or break your day. Having a good breakfast certainly keeps you energized and motivated for the rest of the day. With a delicious breakfast at your table, isn’t this one of the best way to start your happy day? I bet it is!

After a wonderful breakfast, is time for work/school. Maintain a positive mindset when at work/school and be optimistic. You will be able to find joy in midst of work or study. If your day happens to be really bad, don’t worry about your problem and think BIG instead. Do not let the problem ruins your day. You deserve to be happy as long as you choose to.

It is going to be the end of the day as you finish your work/school and heads out of your building. Is time to party! Actually, it is not really true unless you love to. Evening time is the best time to hang out with friends and also spend quality time with your family members. Having good companionship is essential in everyday happiness. Treasure your family and friends. However, do take note in choosing friends because they have a part in influencing your life as well. Make their day and they make yours too.

Jackson

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Laughter is still the trick for happiness!

HAPPY Day people!

Sorry for not updating the post for the past few days. But i having been enjoying myself and i hope you do too! Because the most important thing is to be HAPPY! That right!

For now, enjoy this skit, bought to you by ODIN.



So is it funny? I bet it is! I am so proud and HAPPY for these youngster to come up with the skit in a relatively short time. As their councilors for orientation camp, i would not have ask for more. They were fantastic!

In the end, we had fun together and the memories we had together were always separate us from the rest. Pursuit your happiness and learn to laugh too.

Jackson

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Will Thin Make You Happy?

Posted by Debbie Rocker

on Wed, Jun 27, 2007, 9:38 am PDT

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Is thin the answer?

Not if the question is, what will make me happier? The answer may include losing weight, and making more money, and a lot of other things, but one thing I think we all know is that if your goal is to be thin, you’re likely to try any number of rapid weight loss remedies, and the likelihood of those remedies actually getting you to your ‘ideal weight’ (for more than a short period of time) is small.

In fact, it is more probable that a quick fix weight loss plan will cause you to lose a little and then gain even more back. And I am betting that the reason you do want to lose weight (and make more money etc) is because you want to be happy.

So consider what your goal is, and if being happy is a part of it, then consider the possibility of becoming fitter and healthier overall. If that is your goal, you will certainly lose weight if you need to, and you’ll be addressing other important issues regarding your physical and mental fitness that will make you feel better and look better, and I don’t know anyone who wouldn’t be happier with that.

Now it may seem like semantics but truly there is a big difference between looking at your body and all that distresses you about it, trying to figure out how you will shrink different body parts, and looking at your body while considering what it would do if you ate well, thought about yourself kindly, and exercised moderately.

Start here:
1. Look at yourself in the mirror and, with compassion, think, "How do I want to look and how do I want to feel?"

2. Realistically decide what you are willing do in terms of cleaning up your diet and exercising more, so it won’t feel like a total chore.

3. Decide to be nice to yourself when evaluating your body. Your body will likely be nicer to you by responding to the little things that you do to make it feel and look better.

You may think it’s a lot of hoo hah, but the truth is if you act toward yourself like you like yourself you will see results (and all kinds of benefits beyond physical change) much faster. You are not separate from your body, so when you are angry and resistant, so is your body.

This is the only summer you’ll get this year; start enjoying yourself, and your summer more, right now.

Peace and Good Health,
Debbie Rocker

Happiness Is Mostly Genetic (Part Two)

Happiness Is Mostly Genetic
Matthew Herper

Clues to our behaviors can be found in the brain chemical dopamine, which is the key to the body's reward system. Strangely, in chimpanzees, dopamine levels peak not when they are going to get an award but when they realize the award is coming. That's very similar to our response to money.

For chimpanzees, this kind of brain chemistry can lead to strange behavior. In an essay, Stanford biologist Robert Sapolsky described a chimp that chased a prospective mate far beyond what would be reasonable, because the mate dropped occasional signals that she might be willing--maybe, someday. Sapolsky referred to this as the "pleasure and pain of maybe." The chimp was willing to go to great lengths for a hypothetical reward.

But humans also behave with a similar bizarreness. Take commuting--one of the strangest activities in modern life. Jobs turn out to be critically important to happiness--unemployed people are very unhappy, statistically speaking. But commuting takes some bloom off that rose. A study by researchers at the University of Zurich that was released this year found that commuters underwent more stress as a result of their daily travels than could possibly be paid for by any benefits they got by being willing to travel so far. The hypothetical reward--the good job--winds up outweighing the daily grind of commuting, even though it shouldn't.

However, for all the importance of biology, better living through chemistry doesn't lead to happiness. A 1998 study by Brian Knutson, now a professor at Stanford, showed that antidepressants do reduce negative emotions, such as anxiety and fear. And they actually have a powerful effect on patients' personalities, making them more engaged and cooperative in completing a lab test--something that could lead to happiness in the long run. But Knutson's research also revealed that antidepressants such as Prozac or Paxil did not seem to boost optimism or extroversion.

There's an upside to the biological nature of glee. Around the world, about two-thirds of people say they are happy, according to Nancy Etcoff, a psychologist at Harvard Medical School who is writing a book about happiness. Optimism has shown to be a helpful trait that can help people survive traumatic experiences such as heart bypass surgery. Says Etcoff, "There may be some innate tendency to be happy."

That, at least, is something to smile about.

Jackson

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Happiness Is Mostly Genetic (Part One)

HAPPY Day people!

This is something interesting i found on. Happiness is inherited? What do you think? Enjoy the article!

Happiness Is Mostly Genetic
Matthew Herper

NEW YORK - Unhappy? Blame biology. Then cheer yourself up by finding a job with a shorter commute.

As economists, psychologists and biologists try to determine what makes a person happy or unhappy, one factor stands out as especially powerful. To a large degree, it seems, happiness is inherited.

The strongest evidence comes from a study of identical twins conducted by David Lykken, now a professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota. Some 60% of the likelihood that twins separated at birth will describe themselves as happy is accounted for by common genetic factors, not environmental differences in their lives.

This doesn't argue for a "happiness gene." Obesity also is heavily influenced by genetics, notes Carnegie Mellon economist George Loewenstein, but that doesn't negate environment's role--or explain why Americans are so much fatter than Europeans.

But biology may play a huge role in happiness, through an untold number of genes involved in forming personality. Which means that economists in this field may have much to learn from biologists. Tim Ketelaar, a psychologist at New Mexico State University, notes that economists discovered that losses loom much larger than gains in our decisions--and Ketelaar's own work has shown that the same holds true for students' grades. Those with high grades aren't happier than those with low ones, but both groups are upset when their grades drop. Economists were surprised by this, but ecologists studying birds discovered the same thing. A misstep costs an animal the future, while a success helps it only a little.

Another shocker that shouldn't have been: Wealth levels have a limited impact on happiness. Again, this is no surprise to biologists, Ketelaar says, because money is a relatively recent development in the history of human evolution. "Of course individuals aren't built to track wealth," he says. "Prior to agriculture, you couldn't have a society that could amass wealth."

Jackson

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