Happiness Is Up to You

It’s no one else’s responsibility to make us happy. That’s our job. We’re born with the freedom to choose to look for and find the upside of every situation and use it to grow. Joy has little to do with the outside world and everything to do...

Life Isn’t Fair

When you look around and see the diversity of material fortune, intelligence, physical prowess and natural beauty, life sometimes doesn’t seem fair. What’s not so obvious is that even a super abundance of these qualities can’t guarantee a happy life....

Living Your Dream

If you have a dream and you aren’t sure how to make it come true, relax! Don’t stress yourself out desperately trying to make it happen. The energy you put into your vision matters. The fact that you’re able to imagine what you want means that it, or...

Transform Resistance

When you experience strong resistance to something that seems unlikely to change, the best thing you can possibly do is change your attitude about it. While that might not seem like an appealing alternative, it beats the ongoing discomfort of disliking what is. You...

Acceptance Is the Balm

When you trust that everything you experience has a positive benefit for you, it’s much easier to accept even the hardest and scariest situations. Since you can’t ever be sure how things will turn out, it doesn’t make sense to waste one...

You Choose Your Feelings

Your emotional environment is created by your thoughts. Where you place anything on the continuum from good to bad determines how you feel about it. Habitually identifying things as wrong or bad will eventually lower your emotional set point. To radically improve the...