Editor’s note: This is a guest post by best selling author, Lisa McCourt. Lisa is here on Sources of Insight to share with you insightful and actionable steps to be comfortable in your own skin.

Build an attitude of gratitude and flex your appreciation skills. Adopt Thanks Thursday, and go out of your way each Thursday to show a little extra appreciation for the people in your life.

This is a collection of gratitude quotes. If you want to get your thanks on, or flex your attitude of gratitude, these quotes should help you out.

With these gratitude quotes, you have a collection of wisdom at your fingertips. This collection includes words of wisdom from a variety of sources including Aesop, Cicero, Paige, Oprah, and more.

This is a brain dump at the whiteboard on happiness. It’s a short set of some of the cornerstone concepts and big ideas that we can use to shape and drive our own personal happiness.

Doing meaningful work means stretching past your limits and taking risks. As such, the most meaningful work often comes with the greatest challenges.

Keep virtuous cycles going and abort vicious cycles early. The little wins each day keep you going and add up over time. The same is true of setbacks.

This is a guest post from Evita Ochel on how to find your inner peace. Evita is is the founder and editor of EvolvingBeings.com.

You can dramatically shape a positive inner work life if you know what the key catalysts are. Catalysts are powerful ways to influence a positive inner work life. When people have a positive inner work life, they are more creative and productive.

When you see a smile that’s contagious and it lights up the room, it’s because the eyes are smiling too. The key to a good smile is, to think pleasent thoughts. After all, the eyes are the window to the soul.

One of the best things I learned from Jack Canfield is to make an “irritation list.” To make an irritation list, you simply write down the things that are bothering you and then you work the list.

This is a guest post from Melody Fletcher on how to attract everything you want in life. Melody shares her insight and approach that everybody can use to start attracting more of what they want in their life.

Master your emotions. Use negative emotions as a call to action. You can use how you feel to make your life better. While negative emotions may be painful, they may also be our best friend. We can use them to change the quality of our life immediately.

This is an index of happiness blogs. It includes a list of top 10 happiness blogs, as well as a list of happiness blogs from A to Z.

This is a guest post from Weldon “Wally” Long on how changing your thoughts, changes your life. Weldon learned to change fear into a positive motivating force in his life. With that force, he transformed an idea into a multi-million dollar business just six years after he was released from prison.

“I have developer’s disease. I love to sit at a drafting table and draw plans for hotels, wrestling with problems of traffic and the flow of people. That’s what turns me on.” — Steve Wynn

“When the moon hits your eye like a big-a pizza pie, that’s amore.” — Dean Martin

Happy Valentines day!

“The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.” – Steve Jobs
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Jacob Sokol.  It’s the story of how he found his happiness path.
I say path because it’s a journey.  What Jacob figured out is how to drive from his happiness. That doesn’t mean there are no setbacks and things don’t go wrong.  They do.  But driving from happiness mean Jacob sets the stage to spend more of his time doing what …

“If you don’t design your life, someone else will design it for you and you just might not like their idea of balance.” – Nigel Marsh

Work-life balance continues to be an ongoing challenge as the boundaries between work and life blend and blur in our “always on”, increasingly connected world.

Today is a great day for thanks.

If you can’t think of anything to be thankful for, then be thankful that you are not a turkey. Today is a great day, not to be a turkey.

As a friend of mine told me, you have to “catch” happiness — that’s why it’s the “pursuit.” Whether you’re pursuing happiness or wanting to lead a better life, things go wrong along the way. But it’s not what happens to you, it’s how you respond. And how you respond depends on how you look at your life.