I have read quite a few posts about happiness recently, as another blogger Alex Shalman has a Happiness project going on. Its taken me a while to answer his questions, which are at the end of this post.
I have read many times that if you’re aim and energies are directed to finding happiness itself, […]

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This is my 99th post. The first to include a competition! To date I have sprinkled the odd bit of personal information, trying to avoid being too self indulgent or bore you with irrelevant facts.
Recently I was “tagged” by Joe in his Bunker Blog to come up with 7 Strange but True Things […]

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This is the first time I have written about Yaro Starak, although he is probably someone whose work I have read more than anyone since I started this blog. Yaro writes about blogging - so whilst of interest to me, I have assumed he won’t be of interest to anyone visiting this site. […]

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This is a quick, extra, post mainly prompted by my making a total hash of trying to get a video clip on yesterdays post. It doesn’t appear to work in Internet Explorer (get Firefox - it’s better anyway!!) and I now realize those getting the RSS feed didn’t get anything, so the post may […]

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Stephen Fry is always entertaining (to me anyway!) and usually gives interesting reflections on life:-

Sorry if the video doesn’t show (which seems to be a problem in Internet Explorer!). You can see it on You Tube My recent posts have highlighted the less than perfect starts of people who went on to great success in […]

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A chapter in the excellent happiness Toolkit is devoted to praising yourself. The author Jennifer Summers states:-
Most people have no qualms about putting themselves down when they’ve not done something as well as they’d hoped or wanted. People put themselves down for all sorts of reasons, examples can include: being late, messing […]

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