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• Stefan Sagmeister on design and happiness

  Published: June 14, 2007, 2:31 pm

  Tags: Productivity, Creativity, Mind And Spirit, Chris Glass, Design, Happiness, Happy, Stefan Sagmeister, Ted, Ted Conference

  glass, creativity, design, happiness, happy, mind and spirit, stefan sagmeister, TED, TED conference Featured 43f Job: Ruby/Rails Developers at ThoughtWorks Post your job to the 43f Job Board today, and get 43% off with checkout coupon 43OFFTHRUJUL. Offer ends 7/31.

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• Pets: Why owning a pet is important

  Published: July 29, 2007, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Happiness, Personal Relationships, Pets

  Self-help site Life is a Journal has written up five reasons why having a pet is important. And no, my cat did not force me to write this post. All of us probably have different reasons for owning a pet, and this article comes up with the biggies: companionship, stress reduction, perspective, etc. Why do you own a pet, and what are the benefits

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• Boomers Discovering the Joys of Long-Haul Truck Driving

  Published: July 28, 2007, 12:27 am

  Tags: Job And Career, Baby Boomers, Career, Career Change, Career Satisfaction, Happiness, Job Change, Feature

  It surprised us when "Midlife career change: Long-haul truck driver?" became one of LifeTwo's most constantly read posts. The traffic came mostly from people searching on some combination of "career change "and "trucking". In that article we noted that the number of service and truck drivers 55 or older had surged 19%, to about 616,000, since

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• The Road To Happiness: Move Your Body

  Published: August 7, 2007, 7:00 am

  Tags: 20 Ways To Get Stay Happy, Move Your Body, Road To Happiness, Time

  Who isn't looking for more ways to get and stay happy? I've heard a lot of random things, but, "I'm just too darn happy," is not one of them. Time.com has created a list of the top 20 ways to get and stay happy and I think it's important to point out #5 on the list: Move your body. Here's why... We've all heard about a "runner's high," but there

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• How Buying Tomato Soup Is Like A Midlife Crisis

  Published: August 7, 2007, 4:45 pm

  Tags: Midlife Crisis, Happiness, Marriage, Mid Life Crisis, Middle Age, Research, Feature

  Are people wired to think they can do "better" than their current choices? New research says: ... when consumers expect to make similar choices in the future, they selectively pay attention to information that suggests that an alternative would be better. These consumers also tend to disregard information that indicates their current choice is the

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• What makes people happy? Why the rich so poor at allocating time for things that make them happy

  Published: August 9, 2007, 10:12 am

  Tags: Living Life To The Fullest, Happiness, Research, Feature

  relations: time: 0.2; (happiness level: 4.74) Socializing after work: time: 1.2; (happiness level: 4.12) Dinner: time: 0.8; (happiness level: 3.96) Relaxing: time: 2.2; (happiness level: 3.91) Lunch: time: 0.5; (happiness level: 3.91) Exercising: time: 0.2; (happiness level: 3.82) Praying: time: 0.5; (happiness level: 3.76) Socializing at

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• Vancouver Deadly Shooting

  Published: August 9, 2007, 3:13 pm

  Tags: General News, Chinese Restaurant, East Broadway, Forensic Teams, Fortune Happiness, Fortune Happiness Restaurant, Vancouver Canada Shooting, Vancouver Cancada, Vancouver Deadly Shooting, Vancouver Shooting

  eatery called Fortune Happiness Restaurant on East Broadway. The shooting was at 4:30 AM it seems people where sitting having there meals when a guy just came in and started shooting. (more…) copyright @2007 bu.bulicio.us chinese restaurant, east broadway, forensic teams, fortune happiness, fortune happiness restaurant,

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• "Happier" by Tal Ben-Shahar; Road map to your ultimate and inalienable right, to be happy

  Published: August 13, 2007, 1:06 pm

  Tags: Living Life To The Fullest, Before I Die, Depression, Happiness, Positive Psychology, Self Help, Book Review Tip

  or experiences that bring happiness. Mistakenly most people treat money as the ultimated currency which leads to the types of mis-allocated effort described above. Happiness levels are not rigid, that is predetermined by genetics or life circumstances. To believe this would mean that one could not improve one's own happiness. While some

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• Not So Happy? You Must Be Middle-Aged.

  Published: August 16, 2007, 4:43 pm

  Tags: Midlife Crisis, Happiness, Mid Life Crisis, Middle Age, Briefly Noted

  on your happiness, we say. Make your "to do before I die" list and get to work knocking things off it. Skip over midlife crisis. Not enough people are listening -- at least in the UK. A new national survey finds that for men, the ages 35-44 are the least happy in their lives. While they rate their well-being in young adulthood at 7.3 on a

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• Book Review: "Dinner with Dad"; Figuring out what's important and doing something about it

  Published: August 17, 2007, 7:55 am

  Tags: Relationships, Children, Happiness, Work Life Balance, Book Review Tip

  Cameron Stracher was a typical workaholic attorney putting in long hours and a lengthy commute to finance his lifestyle as well as put money away to one day live the good life. Readers of LifeTwo (or of this book) will recognize the fallacy of this strategy. Fortunately Stracher figured it out and decided to do something about at least one aspect

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• Personal development and locus of control.

  Published: August 6, 2007, 4:30 pm

  Tags: Personal Development, Career, Choice, Emotions, Happiness, Law Of Attraction, Personal Development, Trcoach

  of your life and your happiness. That to me is what personal development is all about. What do you think? - feel free to leave your comment about personal development, living life, choice and responsibility and what it all means to you. . .career choice emotions happiness Law of Attraction personal development TRCoachcareer,

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• Poll shows kids just happy to spend time with family

  Published: August 20, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Family Time, Familytime, Mtv, Personal Happiness, Personalhappiness, Surly Teens, Surlyteens, Teenagers

  regarding their personal happiness. The results were rather surprising. It wasn't the things or activities that made this demographic happy, it was the family time. A close second to family time was spending time with friends or significant others. This survey is a relief to many of us with teenagers. It is sometimes easy to believe that with

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• Book Review: "Dinner with Dad"; Figuring out what's important and doing something about it

  Published: August 17, 2007, 7:55 am

  Tags: Relationships, Children, Happiness, Work Life Balance, Book Review Tip

  Cameron Stracher was a typical workaholic attorney putting in long hours and a lengthy commute to finance his lifestyle as well as put money away to one day live the good life. Readers of LifeTwo (or of this book) will recognize the fallacy of this strategy. Fortunately Stracher figured it out and decided to do something about at least one aspect

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• Not So Happy? You Must Be Middle-Aged.

  Published: August 16, 2007, 4:43 pm

  Tags: Midlife Crisis, Happiness, Mid Life Crisis, Middle Age, Briefly Noted

  on your happiness, we say. Make your "to do before I die" list and get to work knocking things off it. Skip over midlife crisis. Not enough people are listening -- at least in the UK. A new national survey finds that for men, the ages 35-44 are the least happy in their lives. While they rate their well-being in young adulthood at 7.3 on a 10

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• Aging Backwards Tuesday Tips #10: Giving Back

  Published: August 21, 2007, 11:01 am

  Tags: Living Life To The Fullest, Happiness, Tips, Feature

  Last week I was invited to participate in a charity event for teenage girls in a group home - an invitation I quickly and gladly accepted. The event was a "beauty night" for 13 lovely girls, ranging in age from 13 to 18. Olay had generously donated skin care products, which I was asked to introduce and demonstrate. There was also a hair and makeup

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