Happiness Strategies | How to be Happy

What do you have lined up to help make 2009 a happy year?

Have you planned any new year’s resolutions?

I thought you might be interested in a series I’m doing at Get Organized Wizard on The 12 Days of New Year’s Resolutions for Better Personal Organization.

I’m spending 12 days posting ideas for new year’s resolutions you might like to choose for yourself. Each day focuses on a different life area:

Day 1: Personal Development

Day 2: Health & Fitness

Day 3: Career & Work

Day 4: Fun & Recreation

Day 5: Managing Technology

Day 6: Home

Day 7: Personal Presentation

Day 8: Strategies for Happiness

Day 9: Money & Finance

Day 10: Relationships

Day 11: Time Management

Day 12: Partridge in a pear tree Family

We’ve only just started, so now’s the perfect time to come check it out.

Importantly, the focus is on progress, not perfection. As humans we’ll never achieve the latter, but we have a good chance at the former.

Don’t wait to begin your new plans – 2009 is moving quickly. Come on over and join me!

Picture adapted from image by Aldon.

With Thanksgiving upon us, I’m over at the Get Organized Wizard blog talking about how you can organize yourself for greater gratitude – and boost your happiness along the way.

Oh – and I’ve listed 10 things I’m grateful for at the mo.

I’d love to hear your 10. Please come on over and share them…

How to be Happier: A Scientifically Proven Strategy that Costs Nada

Hello Happiness Strategists!

While working on my new project I’ve missed you, and I’ve missed writing about happiness.

What’ve I been doing? Creating resources for people who want to be more organized, that’s what! Come check it out: www.GetOrganizedWizard.com.

Right now you get a free Personal Planning Pack just for subscribing to the Get Organized Tips newsletter (which costs nothing) – so be sure to sign up.

The Get Organized Tips newsletter offers regular tips, tools & techniques for organizing your whole life. Yep – not just home or family or office, but the entire 360 degrees, including:

• Personal Development
• Health & Fitness
• Career & Work
• Fun & Recreation
• Managing Technology
• Home
• Personal Presentation
• Strategies for Happiness (one of my fave topics!)
• Money & Finance
• Relationships
• Time Management
• Family

The Personal Planning Pack contains 13 goal and project planners, schedules, weekly and daily organizers, master lists, and lots more. These easy-to-print tools are color PDFs – they look great whether printed in color or in black and white.

So don’t miss out!

There’s still lots to do for my new product, but I haven’t forgotten about my Happiness buds – and I have plenty more resources planned for you guys in the future.

Til then, choose to be happy – and you will be.

Ciao for now,
Michele

It seems Thursday July 10 has been claimed as International Happiness Day.

I figured it was worth coming out of happiness hiatus to tell you about that!

The purpose:
"To create a focus on individuals and communities choosing Happiness in every moment. It’s a scientific fact: People who experience a preponderance of positive emotions tend to be successful and accomplished across multiple life domains."
[http://www.internationalhappinessday.com/]

You can check out the site and participate – they have a bunch of suggestions for how to do that.

Or you can have a DIY happiness day and simply choose happier thoughts throughout the day. There are plenty of tips for that right here at Happiness Strategies.

Or – and this might be my favorite – you can choose NOT to be happy. Buck the trend. Stay miserable. You’ll find everything you need for unwavering woe in the series How *NOT* To Be Happy.

You don’t even have to wait till July 10th.

Hey everyone,

Sadly, I’ve had to turn off comments as I’ve been getting stampeded with SPAM (a SPAMpede, perhaps?). I’ll try turning comments back on after a few days and see if the spambots have moved on.

Thanks for understanding.

Stay happy!

Michele

PS My other project is progressing nicely, so I expect to resume happiness posts and the newsletter in a few weeks. See you then.