How to Find Sustain and Share Happiness

Written by Caterina Rando


Happiness- you can’t beg for it or buy it or even barter for it. You can however create it and better yet sustain it. If you want to be happier long-term make creating and sustaining happiness a priority and applyrepparttar following happiness sustaining principals.

Choose it The old adage, "people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be" is true. Choose to live a life of happiness. When you are not ask yourself why and begin to irradiate your happiness block.

Be present now At any moment all we have is that moment. Putting our attention onrepparttar 130904 past andrepparttar 130905 future makes it impossible for us to fully experience this moment right now. One way to remind yourself to be present is to take a deep breath any time you notice you are worrying aboutrepparttar 130906 future or experiencing regret aboutrepparttar 130907 past. Yesterday is your history,repparttar 130908 future is a mystery. This moment is life’s true present to you.

Make your relationships matter Your deepest, richest, most profound happiness in life will come from Your relationships:repparttar 130909 people you love,repparttar 130910 people your meet who touch you andrepparttar 130911 people who’s lives you reach out to touch. The place where we often make mistakes is we focus onrepparttar 130912 results we want rather thanrepparttar 130913 relationships that enrich our life. Put your relationships first andrepparttar 130914 results you are pursuing second and happiness will rarely elude you.

Acknowledge others often Adding acknowledgement to a relationship recipe always makes it better. When we express our appreciation to others we are telling them that they matter to us and we are grateful for their contribution to our lives. Every one can take in much more acknowledgement than they are receiving now. Acknowledge someone you love for sharing their feelings with you, tell your long time friends how much they mean to you and acknowledge your partner for allrepparttar 130915 little things. When you acknowledge others you are also acknowledging to yourself how good your life is, that sustains your happiness.

Practice approval Part of what makes us unhappy is we do things we do not want to be doing. Going to a baby shower for someone your barely know, driving two hours to get there andrepparttar 130916 whole time wishing you were somewhere else. If you are doing things because of a sense of obligation or societal, family, or community pressure you will be unhappy.

Tackling the Transition: The Confident Navigation of a Career Change

Written by Caterina Rando


Until recently you may have been enjoyingrepparttar illusion of a secure job, only to get involuntarily thrown overboard—drifting back torepparttar 130902 shore of resume revision while brushing up on interview skills.

With things a bit rocky,repparttar 130903 time is right to shinerepparttar 130904 searchlight on your career and make sure that you are onrepparttar 130905 right course for who you are today—not for who you have been inrepparttar 130906 past. See this time as one of possibility, an opportunity for personal and professional transformation. George Sand,repparttar 130907 female French writer and novelist, said, "One changes from day to day . . . every few years one becomes a new being." In today’s world, this is more true than ever.

Making a major life change does not happen in an afternoon. Even if you have just been handed a pink slip, do not jump intorepparttar 130908 first career boat that comes by. Take a little time to assess what you want to do and where you want to be.

Career shifts are a major life transition and should be treated as such. To ease this transition and gain clarity and confidence when deciding which direction to pursue, dorepparttar 130909 following:

Zaprepparttar 130910 Time Zappers You have to make your career transitionrepparttar 130911 top priority in your life. You may have to say "no" to volunteer activities, some family responsibilities and other things that take uprepparttar 130912 time you need to focus on you.

Get on Your Side Stop beating yourself up for what happened yesterday. Instead, get into action and begin to figure out where you want to go. Start taking steps to get there.

Be Strategic When choosing your next career move, ask what industry you want to work in, what kind of culture you want to work in, what benefits you are looking for and what kind of record a potential company has in promoting women. Interview any company that interviews you.

Start withrepparttar 130913 Simple There are things that are easy to do, such as reading a book on your ideal career, doing some research onrepparttar 130914 industry you are considering, having informal conversations with a few of your contacts. Start with these activities to get used torepparttar 130915 idea of change; then beginrepparttar 130916 more challenging activities—redoing your resume, going on informational interviews, participating in job shadowing.

Journal Ask yourselfrepparttar 130917 important questions. What have you learned from your recent work experience? What do you really want? What would you do if you knew you could not fail? Would a move to a different place bring other opportunities? What isrepparttar 130918 best thing you can do for yourself?

Consultrepparttar 130919 Experts Invest time with career counselors, business coaches and consultants. They will give you resources, advice and strategies. Also, read books, go to seminars, surfrepparttar 130920 Internet. Other perspectives are valuable because they are objective and will assist you in making a decision you can be confident about.

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