November 2007

The key to happiness By Alan Ferguson The Province The next time your boss calls you into the office to tell you you"re getting a big, fat pay raise, just say you"re not interested - but you would like her to join you in a rousing chorus...

Measuring happiness and satisfaction Les Picker The New Nation Happiness among American men and women reaches its estimated minimum at approximately ages 49 and 45 respectively." To design effective social and economic policies, policymakers need a measure of individuals' "well-being." Yet while such things as real Gross Domestic...

'Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.' - Benjamin Disraeli 'Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.' ...

Two separate incidents lead to the thoughts behind this happiness blog posting. One, involved a woman who lives nearby my house who gets around with the help of a guide-dog. The other, was yet another thought provoking tip from Lou Tice at the...

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. - Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, 3rd President of the United States Often I provide a happiness interpretation to the inspirational or thought provoking quotes but in relation to happiness, this...