When you’re happy, you can start a happiness virus through your social network, according to a Harvard and UC San Diego study.
So update your Twitter and Facebook status with good things and spread the love!
No conclusive info about when you’re down, although I know that’s as good a people repellant as B.O.
Jill has also created her own interesting daily goals: She writes in her blog about a daily self-challenge: “Every day, I must DO ONE THING that’s fun…new…or that challenges me.”
I like this idea as it’s a broad bucket of the types of things which should make it easy to think of goals related to whatever mood she’s in. I personally try to learn 3 new things a day no matter how trivial. (Although I don’t count factoids about Paris Hilton as “learning.”)
Melea Seward wrote about daily self-challenge to do something impulsive every day for a year.
What do you think and have you done something similar to change your life?
Reducing debt starts by cutting out unnecessary costs.
The Street has 10 great tips for reducing bank ATM fees - which according to Bankrate amounts to several billion dollars each year.
(Add a goal to pay off all your debt to your life list on SuperViva)
I’d seen their ribbon candy in Gourmet Magazine, so it was fun to take a short tour at the Hammond Candies factory in Denver where they still make candy by hand. Who knew that candy cane stripes are wrapped around the core as a jacket? It was a perfect way to observe National Candy Month.
Want to see it? Add it as an idea to your life list! Better yet, get there for the December candy cane festival. (This kid here is enjoying the color effects of licorice hard candy.)
A few people have a nice goal to "make a list of 100 things that make me happy."
5 things that make me happy:
1. A cool breeze while standing in the warm sun.
2. Wildly colorful flowers or anything else very colorful - houses, furniture, clothing, paintings, paint swatches!
3. Whipping up a batch of cookies without a recipe. The act of stirring it all together is my zen thing.
4. Conversational chemistry when you can hardly let the other person talk because you have so much to say to each other, playing off each other.
5. Laughing about incidental things that you observe, when other strangers see it and laugh with you.
Check out the lists people have started and I (almost) guarantee reading them will make you happy.
