It started with a message from a friend. I’d woken – ‘on the wrong side of the head’ as I nowadays say, having slept through my ‘snooze’, new(ish) electric toothbrush really not having the desired brushing effect, and my to do list hovering heavily with 59 items to be completed by 1300. And then [...]
By Paul Giddings I don’t really have time to write this. In fact, I’ve already negotiated a late deadline; half thinking it won’t happen and that it will be postponed to another week. (As it turns out it IS happening and it’s for THIS week). Luckily, I have spent two days [...]
Guest blog by Matt Curtis The traditional toast is to ‘health, wealth and happiness’. But what is 'wealth' in today's modern times? Go onto any internet image search engine and type in ‘wealth’ and all you will see are pictures of bank notes, coins and bullion bars. This is what we [...]
To do list or not to do list – that is the question I lay in bed last night, heart palpitating, head throbbing, that slightly edgy feeling where you feel you may go at any minute. And I thought "this all feels like too much". What - you may ask? Had [...]
So Sally asked us all to do a review of the 21 Days to Happiness and our experience. I know she likes facts and figures so here goes… 6 hours of footage shot using my new camera (it’s a 5D Mark III for anyone interested and I love it) 100 hours of [...]
So I’ve officially completed the happiness toolkit (sort of). Did I do it every day? Well, maybe not every day. Did I concentrate all the way through Marta’s meditations? Well, some of the time. But has it made a difference? Absolutely. If you’d seen me this morning as I cursed at the [...]
Doing the new toolkit with a chest infection was ‘different’ to say the least. I found it challenging, and at times tough, sometimes I simply didn’t do it, and others I did. Lessons learnt: make time to do something small; however tiny. Even Marta’s 2-minute meditations. It really makes a difference. And [...]
What is happiness? Now that is a question! And one for a much longer conversation but here’s a start… An underlying peace. Well-being. Joy. Love. Hope. Purpose. Belonging. Contentment. The ability to survive. My Formula (Caveat: It’s nothing new) Don’t search for happiness. You will always be chasing a dream. Instead, live and [...]
Dear Heroes, Dear Everyone who in any way, any shape or form contributed or/and participated in the re-launch of the Happynesshub. You all have become such an important, amazing and inspiring community. Whether you are one of the Heroes or you wrote a sentence or two on our forum, or whether you [...]
I’ve never been overly good at critical reflection (without the stories, feelings and “he said/she said” going on in the background) but having to just stop and look back at the last three weeks has been harder than I thought. Hard because I had to make a choice on what I [...]
