Lately I have been recognizing more fully how it is your thoughts about reality, not reality itself which is the cause of emotional pain.
Reality is reality. Reality is a kind of enduring substrate, a foundation. Reality is like a huge slab of concrete. Reality is something that you have little or no control over. Reality:

Is everything [...]

There are a few reasons that goal achievement might not make you happy:

Adaptation, your brain adapts quickly to the changed environment and returns to its original feeling states
Miscalculation, you may be simply be wrong in predicting what goals make you happy
Downside, you may have not fully appreciated the downside of achieving your goals (e.g., a new house brings [...]

I have a mantra; it is “Plan, Organize, Be Happy”. I started my mantra about two months ago, and I use it everyday.
The word plan refers to identifying projects and next actions on a to-do list. I have been doing David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology for about a year and a half. I am working on integrating GTD [...]

Welcome to the February 25, 2007 edition of happiness carnival.

SpiKe presents 10 Practical Stress Reducing Tactics posted at Organize IT.

Alan presents Its all about Family – Keys to Unlock your Inner Potential posted at Made to Be Great.

Thijs presents Always jump for the banana! posted at Partners-InC – Spreading the Happiness, saying, [...]

I have been finding myself lately thinking about the past and regretting one action or another. I am not preoccupied with these thoughts, though they are bothersome. The process is like this, the thought about the event occurs, I regret the action by comparing my actual behavior to a potentially more correct behavior, and then I rehearse in my mind the [...]