BE HAPPY Live, Love and Laugh while you can

Happy Hobo and Moaning Millionaires Are you happy  at work? What stops YOU from choosing happiness? Top 5 Regrets of The Dying – Bronnie Ware. For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special...

Happiness – choice or chance?

Is happiness genetic or a choice?    Short answer: Both. Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of The How of Happiness, says, “A lot of happiness is genetically determined, up to 50%.” That statistic comes from several studies of identical twins. Researchers found that when...

Happiness & Time

Happiness through the years   Our modern idea of happiness—that it’s something everyone can earn and that we all deserve—would have been completely unfamiliar to our ancestors. Darrin McMahon, author of Happiness, A History, points out that the word “hap” is Old...