New at the Get Organized Wizard Blog – How to Be Happier: A Scientifically Proven Strategy that Costs Nada

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… Continue reading New at the Get Organized Wizard Blog – How to Be Happier: A Scientifically Proven Strategy that Costs Nada

Get organized for happiness!

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… Continue reading Get organized for happiness!

Comments on hold for now

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… Continue reading Comments on hold for now

Happiness hiatus

Hi everyone, I wanted to let you know I’ll be taking a short break from blogging here as I work full-time on another project. If you need a happiness refresher while I’m gone I hope you’ll find inspiration in the archives. In particular: 101 Happiness Strategies Strategies for boosting your happiness level, based on happiness… Continue reading Happiness hiatus

Right brain or left brain? When it comes to feeling happy, it’s a no brainer

Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight If you have any doubt about the wonderful job our brains do, you’ll be won over by this riveting, disturbing and emotional story from Jill Bolte Taylor, neuroanatomist and stroke survivor. ‘How many brain scientists have the opportunity to study their brains from the inside out?’ she asks.… Continue reading Right brain or left brain? When it comes to feeling happy, it’s a no brainer

Friday Quick Tricks: 5 lessons in failing from people who later SO succeeded

1. Woody Allen Failed motion picture production at NYU and City College of NY. Oh and also failed English at NYU. Before winning Oscars for directing, producing and writing. 2. Thomas Carlyle Loaned The French Revolution manuscript to a friend whose servant used it for kindling. Carlyle went home and re-wrote the whole thing. 3.… Continue reading Friday Quick Tricks: 5 lessons in failing from people who later SO succeeded

Stuff that makes me happy: A Worldwide Telescope tour of the universe

If you haven’t yet taken a tour on the Worldwide Telescope don’t wait another minute to hop aboard for this astonishing experience. It’s like a best-of clip show from the world’s greatest telescopes, with the images merged into a seamless spatial panascope (I know there’s no such word, but you get what I mean). It… Continue reading Stuff that makes me happy: A Worldwide Telescope tour of the universe

Born happy? The link between happiness, personality and genes

A new British study has shed more light on the genes/personality contribution to happiness. Genes may contribute up to 50% of the variance in happiness, and the new research suggests this genetic influence on happiness is essentially conveyed via personality. Researchers using a representative sample of 973 twin pairs found that the heritable differences in… Continue reading Born happy? The link between happiness, personality and genes