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We live in times when super-busy schedules have become something to boast about. While the speed of life increases, there is less and less time to enjoy the moment that you are in. The ability to appreciate the moment, the environment and yourself in it, isthe base for the bridge towards long term happiness of any human being.
71% of people tried to complete this challenge, but failed quoting lack of time as the main reason. These people simpy did not have time to be happy. Do you?
How? Plain simple!
Every day submit a picture of what made you happy!
It can be anything from a meet-up with a friend to a very tasty cake in the nearby coffee place, from a feeling of being at home after a hard day to a favor you didto a stranger.
#100happyday challenge is for you – not for anyone else.
It is not a happiness competition or a showing off contest. If you try to please / make others jealous via your pictures – you lose without even starting. Same goes for cheating.
So first you register in the challenge &here&, then choose your favorite platform for submitting pictures. Here you can decide yourself on the privacy of your participation & happy moments:
Share your picture via facebook, twitter or instagram with a public hashtag #100
Come up with your own hashtag to share your pictures with to limit publicity. (Don’t forget to tell us how to find y) )
Simply send your pictures to myhappyday (at)
to avoid any publicity.
And you’re ready to go! :)
Why would I do that?
People successfully completing the challenge claimed to:
– Start noticing what makes
– Be in a b
– Start receiving more complimen
– Realize how lucky they are to hav
– Be
– Fall in love during the challenge.
Even when the challenge is over the collected 100 happy moments can always remind you about the beauty of your life. For that, you can receive a little set of square prints with all your 100 happy days at the finish line of the challenge!
Visit /done, tell us the story of your challenge and get 100 happy moments printed. Voilà!
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This month, Greater Good features
of a presentation by Sonja Lyubomirsky, a leader in the field of positive psychology and an expert on the science of happiness. In her talk, Lyubomirsky reveals the many benefits of cultivating happiness, and offers research-tested tips for doing so. Here, she discusses a key insight from her research—which backs up some ancient wisdom.
There’s a famous Chinese proverb:
If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap.&
If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.&
If you want happiness for a month, get married.&
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody else.&
Notice the wisdom of this proverb. The first two things are just momentary pleasures—obviously, they are not going to make you happy forever. Getting married and inheriting a fortune are major circumstantial changes in life, but those are the kinds of changes people tend to adapt to over time—you get used to a new level of happiness, or a new level of wealth, an that’s part of human nature.
In fact, when two colleagues, Ken Sheldon and Dave Schkade, and I conducted research into the factors that determine our levels of happiness, we found that only 10 percent lies in our life circumstances.
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A lot of people are astonished to see that number being so small. They think: “Oh, I’ll be happier when I get a new job. Or when I get a boyfriend. Or when I have a baby.” But the truth is, those things don’t affect our happiness as much as we think they will.&
However, our research has shown that up to 40 percent of our happiness depends on our behavior and daily activities—that’s 40 percent that’s within our power to change every day. (50 percent of our happiness is dictated by our genes—a high percentage, but not as high as we sometimes think.)
And when it comes to pursuing activities that can boost our happiness, the proverb gets it right: helping someone else is a surefire strategy. Studies that I and others have conducted show that practicing kindness generates significant increases in happiness.
In one of these studies, we asked college students to do five acts of kindness per week over a period of six weeks. Each week, we asked one group of students to do all five of their acts of another group of students could spread out their acts of kindness over the entire week. And a third group of students (a control group) didn’t do anything at all.
The acts of kindness they performed ranged from the profound to the mundane. Here are some of the examples they cited:
Bought my brother a comic book
Donated blood
Bought a homeless man a Whopper
Visited Grandma in the hospital
Was designated driver for a night at a party
Helped someone (a stranger) with computer problems
Told a professor “thank you” for his hard work
Obviously, people define “acts of kindness” differently, and there are a lot of cultural differences in this area. I once showed this list to an audience of people from different cultures, and they were horrified: “Visiting Grandma in the hospital is an act of kindness?” they said. “That’s your duty—something you’re expected to do.”
But I think we all can identify what we ourselves consider “kindness,” and try to do more of it. (My own goal for kindness, at which I am not very successful, is being nicer to telemarketers. Clearly, we all have our own subjective definition of what constitutes kindness.)
In our study, we found that members of the control group, who weren’t asked to help others more, actually helped less over the course of the study. But the participants who were asked to do those five acts of kindness a week—either on a single day or over a week—actually did report increases in helping.
What’s more, all that kindness did succeed in making them happier—but only in the condition where the students performed all their acts of kindness in one single day. I think that was because their acts were mostly pretty small, and it was more powerful to have them be more concentrated in a shorter timeframe. Spreading the acts of kindness across the week just might not have made those acts as distinguishable from the other things the students tended to do.
Why might kindness have these kinds of effects on our happiness? I believe that when you are kind and generous to others, you start to see yourself as a generous person, so it’s good for your self-perception. Plus, it helps you see yourself as interconnected to others, it makes you interpret other people’s behavior more charitably, and it relieves distress over other people’s misfortune—all things that are good for happiness.&
Perhaps the biggest happiness boost comes from the social consequences of kindness. When you help others, you might make new friends, or other people might appreciate what you’ve done, so they might reciprocate in your times of need.
I’ve come to conclude that helping others leads to a cascade of positive social consequences: Lots of good social things happen when you are generous and kind to others, and many of these play a direct role in making us happier.
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Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at UC Riverside and the author of the best-selling book, .
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The Prophet
Khalil Gibran
Then a woman said, Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow.
And he answered:
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled
with your tears.
And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the
potter?s oven?
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was
with knives?
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is
that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in
truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Some of you say, ?Joy is greater than sorrow,? and others say, ?Nay,
is the greater.?
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board,
remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.
Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced.
When the reassure-keeper lifts you to weigh his gold and his silver,
must your joy or your sorrow rise or fall.
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