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Welcome to the home of happy-247.com greeting each day
with a smile
I hope you enjoy looking around my website and blog. Over the past 12 months I’ve invited articles from fellow bloggers and now host over 1200 articles containing information on all aspects of making money online, healthy lifestyle and self improvement.
-Tony Manning-Stanley
Tony Manning-Stanley
What is happiness?
A general dictionary definition is “Happiness is a state of being characterised by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy”, but how do we obtain such a state of being and why do some of us find it a lot easier to ‘be happy’ than others? Most of us have experienced the state of happiness associated with a particular event in our lives – our wedding, the birth of a child or to some experiencing their football team win the championship are events that can be savoured, never to be forgotten, to lift our spirits in future. So true happiness is a state of being and must come from within. It is not the external events in our lives, but how we react to them and whether we allow them to affect us.
Happy 24/7?
I intended the happy-247 theme to be related to self improvement and development, but on a practical basis I’ve since tried to include anything that can make make life easier and more enjoyable, including health, wealth and fitness, so you’ll find articles as diverse as Internet Marketing, hypnosis, fitness and going green.
What benefits?
- Happy people attract happy events and people to them
- Being happy improves our self-esteem and confidence
- Happiness is a mental state that has a positive effect on our physical wellbeing
- Happiness gives us a feeling of engagement with life and our fellow beings
- We can choose to be happy but we can’t control media events
Practical happiness!
So what can we do about raising our levels of happiness now without carrying a false smile all day?
- Turn off the TV, especially the main news channels. If you are affected by the current global downturn, do something positive to give you control of your own situation. Look for home-working opportunities or crafts that can save money – many people have turned a hobby or activity they enjoy into a profitable business and the internet makes this even more easy to do.
- Find a physical activity that you can do to exercise yourself for at least 30 minutes for 3 days a week. If you find jogging and going to the gym boring, as I do, there’s swimmimg, aerobics, and dance classes, and depending on your current fitness level a game of golf, tennis or squash will help. All these are participation activities which help you connect with like-minded people, but if your finances don’t allow for any of these, there are home-based excercise programmes you can do which still get your adrenalin flowing.
- Gardening is an activity which can work on many levels. You get exercise from the laying out and preparation and tending to plants can be very therapeutic and if you include vegetables in your patch you can benefit from the enjoyment of being self-sufficient whilst benefitting your finances too!
- Conversation with a like-minded partner or friend can be a great way to improve your mood, especially if you share a similar sense of humour, you can have a good laugh and come away feeling happy and contented.
- Don’t forget to give yourself a treat now and again too! If you are a person who sets goals for themselves, especially, by promising to reward yourself with a treat you can manage when you reach the next step towards your goal, this will give you a spur onward as well as keeping you focused on your next goals.
- Last but not least, the gift of a genuine smile can radiate happiness to others and the feeling invoked when smiling makes it impossible to feel negative at the same time (and it costs nothing!!)
Happy blogging!
As my blog develops I hope to cover everything related to bringing at least a smile and hopefully some more practical information on how to develop a happy lifestyle and secure future. I am open to others posting to my blog within the general theme, if you would like to post, or backlink please sign up.
My blogs areas of interest:
- Fitness & health
- Self-development
- Humour
- Wellbeing
- Planning & organising
- Working from home
- Empowerment
Influences: Deepak Chopra; Wayne Dyer; The Barefoot Doctor; Joe Vitale; Nightingale Conant.
Please feel free to leave comments, your constructive feedback will help me when choosing content for future posts.
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