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“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” — Charles R. Swindoll. A friend of mine sent me an email titled “Twelve Little Laws of Life.” The laws were short and sweet and I was impressed. I hunted down the original author Tom Hoobyar. Tom said I was free …
“Dear Santa, I have been nice all year. Most of the time. Once in a while. Never mind, I’ll just buy my own stuff.” — Anonymous Well, it’s the holiday season, so I thought I’d share some lessons from old St. Nick. Santa has always been one of my heroes. Granted I never thought much …
Is smart a criteria for happiness? Not at all. It’s your frustration tolerance. This point rings true. I think the meta-point is that it’s not about lowering your expectations about things. Instead it’s about improving your ability to deal with things that don’t go as planned. Another way to put it is, raising your bar …
“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.” — Hebbel We’re not very good at predicting which activities will bring us pleasure and which ones won’t. A tool to help identify activities we truly enjoy is the Pleasure-Predicting Sheet. This can help us defeat “Do Nothingism” or when we get stuck in a …
A low frustration tolerance can cause unhappiness and a bad mood in a lot of situations. One of the keys to feeling good is improving your frustration tolerance. Improving your frustration tolerance helps improve your mood. You can be happy and find happiness in a lot more situations simply by improving your frustration tolerance. I …
