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Happiness

How To Enjoy Work That Makes You Miserable

by Stephen Mills August 28, 2010
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The bottom line is you can choose a positive or a negative attitude about whatever you are doing and in that choice lies the difference between joy and misery.

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Deep Death Bed Thoughts

by Stephen Mills August 21, 2010
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I’m thinking old age regret is going to suck. In order to avoid it, I find it useful to put myself on my death bed and imagine how I will feel. It’s easy to piss your precious life minutes away when you are young, or even when your not so young, but it is sometimes helpful to realize at some point you are done and will get none of them back.

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Don’t Give Away Your Happiness

by Stephen Mills August 7, 2010
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Your happiness is very precious; it may be the most important gift you have been given. And yet I would wager that you are giving much of it away. I do. We all do.

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Life Advice In a Nutshell

by Stephen Mills August 2, 2010
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If you cannot spend at least several hours every day doing something for no other reason than you want to do it, then I consider that slavery. Drop commitments like they are poison. Avoid spending yourself into slavery (see below). Absolutely do your own thing and not what anyone else thinks you should do, whether that anyone is society, your family, or your partner.

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How Do You Spend Your Life Dollars?

by Stephen Mills July 9, 2010

experiences you didn’t enjoy. You don’t get to go back and do it over.

My attitude about how I spend has definitely changed. Realizing when you give someone a dollar you are giving them some of your life is a big step towards more awareness. It’s truly a different way to look at it. When you are young, it can seems like you have an eternity to figure things out and get it right. You don’t and it will go by faster than you would ever imagine. Spend wisely my friend and thanks for spending a small part of your life on my blog.

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Why Television Commercials Increase Viewing Pleasure

by Stephen Mills July 5, 2010

As it turns out, interrupting the adaptation resets it. Interrupting something unpleasant, taking a break for example, resets the adaptation you have already made to the unpleasant experience and so you have to experience the initial unpleasantness all over again. Interrupting a pleasant experience also resets the adaptation and so you get to experience the initial pleasant experience all over again.

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Finding Your True Self – Revisited

by Stephen Mills June 15, 2010
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There is an ultimate aloneness to human existence. You cannot get into someone else’s head and they cannot get into your yours. No matter how close you are to someone, it is an illusion to think they truly understand you or you truly understand them. At some level you can share your experiences, but ultimately you are alone with your own experiences and you will get along better in life if you accept that and figure out what it means to you.

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Would You Rather Be Right or Be At Peace?

by Stephen Mills June 1, 2010
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Do you prefer stress or happiness? That may sound like a no-brainer, so let me ask it another way. Do you prefer being right or being at peace? So many of us are determined to be right, and we defend our positions with the skill of a lawyer and the stubbornness of a mule. If you’re good at this you may get to continue to be right for years and everyone will know it, but the cost is your peace of mind.

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Just Let It Go

by Stephen Mills May 13, 2010
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Think about a person who in your mind has changed the world or who has done something great with their life. Now imagine that person had done something terrible, or something that they regretted deeply; something for which they were consumed with guilt. Now imagine that instead of doing whatever they had done for which you so greatly admire them, they had instead remained paralyzed by guilt or regret. Imagine what a tragedy that would have been!

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Getting Over It

by Stephen Mills May 2, 2010
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Would you rather have something or would you rather get over wanting to have it? That’s a deep question that I encountered somewhere and sometime during the past few months. I wish I could remember where I read it, but the question stuck with me and its source did not.

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