Your Happiness Factor

Tuesday Quotes - Find A Little Happiness I wish you every happiness and if you need help finding it please get in touch. Warm regards Wendy wendymason@wisewolfcoaching.com http://wisewolfcoaching.com Related articles What is your special gift? Career Development: When it is time for a change! Tuesday Clinic: When You Make A Mistake!

e-happiness: everything happens for a reason Here is another post from contributor, Stephanie Carfrae. She is a Creative Writing Graduate; you can find her own blog  at   www.stephcarfrae.blogspot.co.uk   and I think you will be inspired by Stephanie's  first video When you move house you adapt it to suit your needs . Situations/catastrophes happen in your life so you can do the same. And although you may not think it at the time, these things occur to make you stronger. And nothing ever happens in the same way again. The changes may be subtle, or it becomes a choice.  Everything has an underlying reason behind it, though it’s not always clear why certain things happen. It may be a small reason, but it all adds up. And you will become a stronger person because of them.  Mark my words!  There is nothing you can do in certain situations and you just have to endure them. It is hard. For instance, when my grandfather died I kept thinking ‘maybe if I had done this di

Be Happy - Make Time For Fun Life Coach Marie Wetmore discusses the critical yet often forgotten ingredient for a happy life: fun. When fun and enjoyment become a low priority, you'll find that a month can go by without the vital fun that helps you be a happy person. Marie suggests a simple, actionable strategy to be happy: scheduling fun into your life on a regular basis. Here's the challenge: carve out time in your schedule every day for two weeks. This is time for you to be happy by going out and doing something purely for enjoyment. Part of the challenge is simply to create happiness every day. But the other part of the exercise is to help you learn to be more efficient and effective with your other commitments so you can experience the success of getting in control of your own schedule. With good time management you maximize your effectiveness so that you can take care of your high priorities. In other words, the goal of being happy, like all other goals, depen

Remember Happiness Is A State, Not A Circumstance - Inspirational Video -The 9 Timeless Secrets of Being Happy  Inspirational video presenting the nine timeless secrets of being happy by Brian Vaszily, author of the No1 international bestselling motivational book, The 9 Intense Experiences. Watching this a great way to lift your mood. Links to his books and products below   Wendy Mason is a career coach.  She helps people reach their goals and aspirations, without sacrificing their home and personal life.  Before working as a coach, Wendy had a long career in both the public and private sectors in general management and consultancy as well as spells in HR.  She now divides her time between coaching and writing. You can contact Wendy at  wendymason@wisewolfcoaching.com  and find out more at  http://wisewolfcoaching.com Related articles Confidence and the well equipped leader Inspiring Quotes on Courage Are you shy? Learn how to make friends in new situations. Pe

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. Lao Tzu Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. Margaret Cousins If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily. Gerald Good Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. Buddha Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. Brian Tracy We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. Thornton Wilder Let'

     Daniel Goleman , in  The Meditative Mind :   The key elements of flow are The merging of action and awareness in sustained concentration on the task at hand, The focusing of attention in a pure involvement without concern for outcome, Self-forgetfulness with heightened awareness of the activity, Skills adequate to meet the environmental demand, and Clarity regarding situational cues and appropriate response. When I sit down in my office at to write,   I enter a state of flow and I love it.   I see and feel nothing but the words before me. The state of flow is when you are so fully focused on the task at hand that you no longer realize the passage of time.   You may not feel heat or cold (I don’t) and   you may not hear what is said to you. Being in this state of allows you to achieve high productivity and be happy at the same time.   To enter the flow state, you need a goal; you need to know what you want to do and why.  Vague in

Inspiration - Daffodils Every day, even when I am working at home, I make sure I get out of the house and go for a walk.  Today, I didn’t want to go – it is a dark, cold, grey kind of day and I wanted to stay inside in the warmth and comfort of my home. But I pushed myself and got out there.  Wasn’t I pleased that I had!  Even in suburban South London, there the signs of early spring and these are as bright as sunshine!  Inspiration - Primroses I found a small clump of primroses shyly smiling at the world.    In sheltered spots there were the first dafodils!  And there it was, my Mother’s  favourite,  forsythia; blooming away and determined to flash its colours to the dismal sky.  They made me feel inspired and so when I came back in, I decided to write this post! You see we all can find inspiration around us!  And it is not just in nature! Inpiration - Forsythia Are there books that you have always loved?   How often do you go back to them? Do you remember th