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Spiritual Lane Change: 9 Ways to De-stress
I came across a post recently (8 Unconventional Ways to De-stress and Release Tension) at Zen Habits by guest poster Jai Kai of SharingSuccess.tv. He lists some actions for de-stressing like finger...
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How to Find Inner Happiness
The term “inner happiness” is extremely important. A common consensus of happiness and inner-peace seekers is that true lasting happiness comes from inside us; thus, “inner happiness.” The reason this...
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How to Find Happiness Within
Finding happiness within is a vital key to finding happiness. I know what you’re thinking… semantics right? Well let’s take a look at the definition of within: 1. In or into the inner part; inside. 2....
View ArticleHow to Overcome Depression and Find Happiness
Firstly, if you feel as if you may be suffering from depression, you should seek professional help. There is no shame in asking for help. Not asking for help kept me sick for many years. We’re as sick...
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How to Find Happiness in Marriage
I’ve had the experience of being in two marriages. Well, the first one ended in an annulment 6 months into it so “technically” we were never married, but we were both unhappy. Today, I’ve been happily...
View ArticleFinding Happiness
Finding happiness is somewhat of a paradox. “The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase, if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.” -C. P. Snow It would seem that finding happiness is...
View ArticleFeelings about Yourself Should Come From Yourself
Have you ever experienced the frustration when purchasing a Christmas present for a friend or family member you really do not know that well? Now think about how well you really know yourself. Do you...
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Creating Your Happy Life
It is possible to build a happy life, but for most of us, it’s not easy. Maybe you know someone who seemed to manifest a happy life in an instant; I don’t. I have heard of these miraculous awakenings...
View ArticleLove and Happiness
Can you have happiness without love? I’ve been thinking a lot about this question lately. My opinion is; no you cannot find true lasting happiness without love. This does not mean “love” in the sense...
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Creating a Happiness Plan
This is a guest post by Rita in which she provides us with some simple and practical ways to cultivate happiness in our lives. Rita is an aspiring author, mentor and editor of Snubbr. Rita is currently...
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Overcoming Fear
It’s a rainy day in 2004 and my fiance’ and I are sitting at an intersection waiting for the light to change. I can see our destination across the intersection; a loan office where a check is waiting...
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How to Find Inner Peace and Happiness
So you want to know how to “find” inner peace and happiness? If you’ve been around How to Be Happy long enough, you probably already know what I’m about to say… that’s right, find inner peace and...
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Recipe for Happiness
The term “recipe for happiness” is interesting… as if you can put in certain ingredients; throw it in the oven at 350 degrees for 30 minutes and out pops happiness. Sort of like those cooking shows...
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Everything Happens for a Reason. Does it Really?
You hear people say it all the time: “Everything Happens for a Reason.” But does everything happen for a reason? Or is it our job to give reason to it? This saying, or idea, intrigues me. My logical...
View ArticleHappiness Is…
Many people view happiness as subjective; that it can be different for everyone and thus impossible to develop a “one size fits all” approach to finding happiness. Yet it seems deep down inside...
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How to Find Happiness Within Yourself
Finding happiness within ourselves is the key to long-lasting happiness. If you’ve researched enough on how to be happy, this is no big news to you I’m sure. But exactly how do we find the happiness...
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Some Thoughts on Grace
I heard someone suggest once that you could experience Grace by planting a seed. I know how to grow a plant; put a seed in the ground and water it. I don’t know how to get sun or rain. There are just...
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Happiness is to Live and Let Live: 9 Ways of Letting Go
Lately I’ve been studying the term Live and Let Live. This may mean something different to you, but what it basically means is stop trying to manipulate things you have no control over, i.e. letting...
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Book Review – The Shadow Effect: Illuminating the Hidden Power of Your True Self
A few months ago I was sent a copy of the The Shadow Effect (Amazon) co-authored by Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford, and Marianne Williamson. If you’ve been a reader of How to Be Happy for any length of...
View ArticleHow To Find Happiness
Hello, I’m Jared Akers, welcome to How to Be Happy: Happiness for the Practical Mind. If you’re interested in finding happiness in life regardless of your circumstances, I encourage you to sign up...
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He Knows Just How Much We Can Bear
NOTE: I wrote this article on July 11th, 2010 prior to Goodbye for now, Dad I remember the surgeon saying, “it’s not good, it is cancer and most likely originated in the lungs…” meaning it has...
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Peace Love and Happiness: Finding Inner Peace and Accepting Love = Happiness
What does peace, love, and happiness mean to you? I think of the sixties—or was that sex, drugs, and rock and roll?—and the idea that love can end war and violence. Is love really all we need? If it’s...
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101 Ways to Find Happiness
You’ve probably noticed that every self-help book and personal development blog as a “101 ways to” (fill in the blank) list. So I figured I’d come up with one on finding happiness… Action x 101 I know,...
View ArticleDear Me, Here are a few suggestions to help you Save Time, Live Happier, and...
Dear Me (at age 15), I recently turned 40, wow, what a ride. I can say it’s pretty amazing to feel my best years are ahead of me (God willing). I was thinking about what I could suggest to you…...
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How to Achieve Happiness
Ah, the question everyone wants to know, how to achieve happiness? Let us first look at what the word achieve means: achieve: to bring to a successful end; carry through; accomplish This is the most...
View ArticleSurrender and Giving up on the Life You Dreamed Of
I love things that make me think. The ABC TV show, “Brothers & Sisters” is my wife and I’s show. That and the TV series House, which after about a year of watching recorded re-runs I think we’ve...
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Living Fearless: Discover the Secrets to Being Unstoppable
If you want to live a fearless life and become unstoppable, you need to accept the idea that we’re not here to possess or win anything. The key to this life for each and every one of us is to learn....
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How to be great
While listening to the section “Awaken the Greatness Within” of Secrets of Being Unstoppable, Guy mentions some interesting theories on greatness, which got me wondering what it truly means to be...
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How to Live a Happy Life (regardless of your circumstances)
Want to live a happy life? Sounds fair enough… after all, that’s what everyone is chasing after right? Problem is, which almost all of us realize, we’re chasing after the wrong things to make us happy....
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How to Be Happy and Live Fearless by Overcoming Fear, Stress, and Anxiety
This is no fluff, straight to the point, action based information that can change your life. To be happy and start living fearless, you only need to know this: You’re not here to win, you’re here to...
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5 Ways to Be Happy Whether You Want to or Not
Me on Kauai 2008 If you want to be happy in life, you have to be happy with who you are; whether you want to or not. You have to live with YOU everyday, so you might as well learn how to get along....
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Be Happy with Yourself, Maybe it’s Time to Change
If you’re not happy with life, then you’re probably not happy with yourself. Maybe it’s time to change. Do you know someone who is constantly complaining about something or the entire universe just...
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How to be Happy Alone, 12 Simple Actions to Make Yourself Happy
Are you wondering how to be happy single or alone? I’ve been through a couple iterations of aloneness during different periods of my life. I refer to them as alone in a room full of people and alone in...
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5 Tips on How to Be Content with Life
I had a reader contact me recently and ask about contentment or how to “just be.” Emily and I thought this would be a great topic for a Podcast, so that may be on its way as well. In the meantime, I...
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How to Be Happy at Work, 7 Tips on Finding Happiness in Work (regardless of...
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” – James M. Barrie Last weekend while taking a shower (yes, I take them during the week also) I was thinking about...
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How to Live Happy, 2 Tips That Will Change Your Life
There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. – Johnny Depp...
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How to Find Yourself: 5 Tips on Discovering Who You Really Are
“The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.”...
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Learning to Love Yourself, Are You a Liar? (plus one awesome tip on loving...
Are you trying to alter the lens of others in order to be liked? When someone asks you to do something you don’t feel like doing, do you fabricate some story or excuse? In other words, do you lie?...
View ArticleDo You Want it More Than You Are Afraid of It?
Hanging out on Facebook the other day I saw a quote posted by Henri over at Wakeup Cloud. The quote was from Bill Cosby and it said, “Decide that you want it, more than you are afraid of it.” Henri’s...
View ArticleWhat is Your Authentic Self?
You hear people say it all the time, “be true to yourself,” “to thine own self be true,” “find your authentic self.” What does that mean exactly? What is your authentic self? For me, part of it was...
View ArticleWant Happiness? Get off Your A#$!
The first major shift in my thinking happened in 1997. The realization that I was responsible for my own failure’s in life. That I wasn’t entitled to anything and that if I want success and happiness,...
View ArticleAttitude Is Everything: Chang Your Brain, Change Your Attitude
Are you a pessimist or optimist? If you’re a pessimist, there’s hope. Thanks to neuroplasticity you can change the physical makeup of your brain by the way you think. Most of life is about...
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Giving Up On Life, Why Suicide Can Be Attractive and Some Things to Think About
Giving up on life, or suicide, is always an option. Gasp… I certainly know what hopelessness feels like. But there’s a difference between being hopeless and helpless. If you’re feeling hopeless, that’s...
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Hope is Cheap: How it’s Robbing You of Something Amazing
Hope is cheap, it doesn’t cost you a thing. It’s something you cling to when you’re afraid of moving outside your comfort zone. I know. I lived on hope for years. Consequently, nothing really amazing...
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How Perspective can Change Your Life: Shitty Circumstances and Self-Destruction
Circumstances can be shitty… Or they can be exactly what you need. Here’s some insight into how perspective can change your life. Tim was an amazing guy, we’d just met and as a fellow guitar player, we...
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How to Be Happy Everyday: 10 Tips (#8 is golden)
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. – Helen Keller Sometimes… I just don’t want to be happy; let alone worrying about...
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How to Take an Awesome Vacation Every Six Months, 4 Tips on Finding Travel Deals
We met online and it was my first date in almost a year. Just after her margarita and my iced tea arrived, I asked my qualifier question, “If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be?”...
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5 Tips on How to Stay Positive no Matter What the Circumstances. #3 Saves me...
“You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.” – Joyce Meyer It was a typical July day in the Midwest. Hot. The previous night my wife Emily and I had returned home from a short trip to see my...
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The Pain and Joy of Discovering Who You Are (and are not)
I was standing outside talking to a few friends when she came up and asked, “would you like to catch a movie?” Quickly my mind started racing, I needed to come up with an excuse. It’s not that I...
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31 Quotes About Love to Ignite Your Relationship
We were married on a beach. It was amazing. Our wedding service consisted of Emily and myself, our wedding official Caroline, and about a dozen chickens. As part of our service, Caroline read...
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