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“I’ve made peace with myself. Good for you. The hardest war of all to win. Didn’t say I won. Just stopped fighting.” – Joe Abercrombie We are born into a world of chaos. The sad stories of the world are tearing at our hearts and our minds are...
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All of us, as some point of our lives had trouble in finding “our way”. So we had an early/middle/late life crisis, (a lot of) wrong dating and bad relationships, weight problems, low self-esteem issues and so on. Well, guess what, that time is over! And it is over...
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While driving on a beautiful island in Polynesia last year we stopped to see how they were drying the coconut meat for the oil. Nobody was around so we got out of the car to smell all that coconut. At a certain point one guy comes down from a...
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Gratitude is one of the most powerful positive emotions: it has the capacity to dissolve any negative emotions that you are experiencing. What does this mean? It means that when you feel angry, sad, frustrated, fearful or guilty, it’s enough to focus on the things or people that you...
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You have the choice every day to be happy or not. Becoming happy is realisable, it’s in your power. Pursuing happiness takes work. It takes effort to create a great life, but it does not mean that is impossible. How committed are you to your happiness? Are you willing...
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This is the start for a happiness challenge! A great way to begin the month of February and an amazing way to give a boost to your attitude in 2014. Get an uptitude by accepting this challenge! Maybe you already know that it takes 21 days to create a habit. We...
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Don’t expect to be reading the blog of a very experienced runner, who does hundreds of kilometres monthly, although I would love to be one in the near future. And, before you tell me: I would have to wake up too early, it’s so cold outside, it’s dark, I will get a cold, I will be tired...
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Happiness makes your life better. But you do not need to wait for big things to happen in order to be happy. In the past two years I tested a theory on my own: that small things do bring happiness. So I started to focus on those little moments or things that gave...
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I think that learning this in school would have been useful for my whole life. But nobody taught me. I did learn a few things from my parents, but they were not always an example for a harmonious relationship. I did learn a bit during my interactions with school, university and...
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Recently, Lidia gave me a challenge “Take an A4, pick a person and write down all the things you are grateful for to that person”. You might be wondering what does it have to do with the title of the article? Stick with me for a little longer and...
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