Archive for July, 2008

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , July 30, 2008

When I was looking for a book related to our monthly theme of Happiness, I found a book by Dale Carnegie entitled How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. It’s clearly related to happiness. Worrying is an opposite of being happy and learning how to overcome worrying means learning how to be happy. Since [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , July 28, 2008

Note: This is a guest post by Flora Morris Brown of Color Your Life Happy.
Take stock of your feelings right this minute.
Do you want to maintain the feeling you have right now?
Then you are probably happy.
Do you wish things were better or different than they are right now?
Then you’re probably unhappy, or at [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , July 25, 2008

Do you want to get the most out of your time? I’m sure you do. But for it you must do two things: you must focus on a project while exploring new opportunities.
I learned something from the way Google’s developers work. At Google, the developers have the so-called “20 percent time” policy.  [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , July 23, 2008

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
There are many ways for people to be unhappy, but happy people have common characteristics. That’s why a good way to be happy is to learn the common characteristics of happy people and apply them.
So I studied [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , July 21, 2008

Note: This is a guest post by Vern of AimforAwesome.com.
Is it still called happiness when every muscle in your face is pulling to make you smile so hard that you fear your skin may rip?
Happiness feels incredible. Our mind is light and on a higher plane. Worries are diffused by happiness, even causing [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , July 18, 2008

I recently watched Nathan Myhrvold’s video at TED and it’s amazing. I want to talk about the video and what I learn from it in a moment, but let me introduce Nathan Myhrvold first. He is the man who is featured in The New Yorker’s article In The Air (I wrote [...]