Tag: happy

  • December Daily Practice: Joy

    Because I’m off to Rome next week, I wanted to choose the Daily Practice, and get the daily updates done early. So I’ve been thinking and pondering and trying to come up with something that is appropriate for the season and the time of year and somehow fits in with a trip to Rome, birthdays,…

  • Choose to be Happy Anyway

    Here’s a choice for you: You have a flat tyre. You can either be pissed off and have a flat tyre, or you can be happy and have a flat tyre. Either way, you still have a flat tyre. Which will you choose? If you decide to choose to be pissed off, what will you…

  • Wallowing in Happiness

    One of the things that ‘happy people’ have in common is that they wallow in happiness. They look forward to things (not just big things), they enjoy the memories of things (not just big things), they are grateful for good times they’ve had, they appreciate good things as they happen and make a big deal…

  • Let’s Get Happy

    Don’t wait for the circumstances of your life to be ‘perfect’ before you’re happy, get happy now. How? By noticing the little stuff that makes you happy, and consciously enjoying yourself. So the next time you are in the bath, or enjoying a meal, or reading a book, or out with friends, notice your happy…

  • Find The Gift

    When life throws you lemons, make lemonade (or tequila slammers, depending on your preference!). It’s an old cliche, but a good ‘un! Sometimes life throws stuff at you that sucks, situations that are painful, people who are prats (!), shocks and awful news. That’s life. Last week I talked about playing the best you can…

  • If You Chase, It Will Run

    What are you chasing after in your life? Money? Success? Boys? Girls? Happiness? When you chase after anything, it runs away. Let’s take happiness as an example here – you don’t have to ‘find’ happiness or chase it. You can be it, right now. No matter what’s going on around you, you can be happy…

  • Video: When You Are Not Being Your Best Self

    Your best self is that part of you that is joyful, fun, laid back, generous, loving, happy, cheerful, peaceful. When we feel bad, it is usually because we are not being our best self. It is not what is done to us that makes us feel bad, but what we are being in reaction to…

  • Put a Happy Face On It

    I met up with a friend last night, and I was telling her the ‘woe is me’ tale of my life, when I realised that actually things weren’t that bad, and I was just whining about reality not conforming to my view of what is ‘right’ (it does that a lot!). The main ‘problem’ of…

  • FDA Approves Depressant Drug For …

    Video: FDA Approves Depressant Drug For The Annoyingly Cheerful. This made me chuckle this week – at last, there may be some help for the irrepressibly happy, bouncy, cheerfully annoying people. Lol. They also mention some natural remedies, so if you want to de-cheer yourself without the use of pharmaceuticals you can. Love Donna.x

  • The Optimist’s Creed – Video

    I have just loved this poem so much, that I wanted to record it on video so as well as reading it, you could listen to it. I am reading it to myself every day, and doing my best to keep these promises – they’re a great recipe for a good life! The Optimist’s Creed…