Gretchen Rubin has a great blog called The Happiness Project. http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2007/03/a_quotation_fro_2.html#comment-64317180 She quoted Benjamin Frankin today, saying: A quotation from Benjamin Franklin. [Of his plan for achieving virtue, which I used as a model for my happiness project] "On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, […]
Positive Memories Encourage Happiness
Tonight I was talking to a dear friend of the family. She was remembering memories of both my mother and my father and sharing them with me. Betty and my mother were best friends since girlhood. In fact, in my mother, Bernice Becker’s book, FEEL GOOD STORIES, there are eight illustrations. These were all done […]
Unhappy Children Can Walk Back To Happinss
Walking back to happiness How can young people’s low spirits be improved? The children’s commissioner has a few good ideas. Anna Bawden reports Tuesday March 20, 2007The Guardian The children’s commissioner for England, Al Aynsley-Green. Photograph: David Levene Professor Sir Al Aynsley-Green likes teachers. A lot. The children’s commissioner for England, always an outspoken defender […]
Recipe for Happiness in China
Marriage Affects Women’s Happiness Most Marriage affects Chinese women’s happiness most, and women in their first marriage feel the happiest, according to the recently published 2006 Chinese Women’s Life Survey. The survey points out that 45.6 percent of respondents think their marriage is happy; about 20 percent show mutual respect with their husbands in […]
Recipe for The Embroidery of Our Lives
Today I was going through some old papers I have collected around THE ENCHANTED SELF which is now about 14 years old. My intitial positive memory work and the resultant shift for the treatment room actually happened perhaps 15 or 16 years ago. Time flies! In fact, I wrote the rought draft of THE ENCHANTED […]
Recipe For Success
Continuous effort–not strength or intelligence–is the key to unlocking our potential.~Winston Churchill Simply put this is a great recipe for success. My father always said that inspiration was 99% perspiration and 1 % inspiration. It is the persistence and the capacity to hang in when our ideas, our dreams, our talents, even our style or […]
Recipe for Learning
5: Make it fun If I’m not having fun, I’m not learning. It’s that simple. This simple recipe for learning found on www.positivesharing.com, run by Alexander Kjerulf. is so true. We learn best when we are involved and so completely mesmerized by what we are learning that we are truly having fun! I remember when […]
What Kids Say They Need For Happiness from the Vancouver Sun
I found it exciting to read in the Vancouver Sun a report on happiness about children the ages of my little girl in my new book, THE TRUTH, My Secret Diary, I’m Ten, I’m Smart and I Know Everything! In The Truth the little girl makes clear what grown-ups are forgetting. She knws that isolation […]