Just saying

You know the essentials of leading a decent life: Eat healthy and include veggies in your diet, brush your teeth, exercise regularly and be nice to people. But at times and often without your awareness, bad habits in one way or another manage to sneak their way into your lifestyle. By letting go of the following bad behaviors you’ll free up energy, time, mental space and even money that could be better spent on healthier, happier pursuits. This could be your bad-habit spring cleaning. 1. Holding a Grudge Forgive and forget. You may be affected psychologically as well as physically and really stressed up if you are not able to forgive. A study published in Social Psychology and Personality Science, for example, shows that you can lift weight from your shoulders by the simple act of forgiveness. The study showed that that the more forgiving people were, the higher they were able to jump; those who forgave someone who offended them estimated the steepness of a hill lower than t...

Happiness is a state of mind. It is a decision that one needs to constantly make. Yes it is possible to be both poor and happy in a modern industrialised society. It reminds me a soap opera that aired on TV when I was just a little child dabbed “The Rich also Cry”. There are countless of very rich people who are extremely unhappy. On the other hand, there are several poor people who are always happy. Just to bring the point home, think of a time in your life when you had the most money. Where you happier at that time than when you had the least money? If your answer is yes, then what is it that you did with that money that made you happy? If your answer is no, you will probably agree with the saying, “The best things in life are free!” Look around you and you will notice that the happiest people are actually those who struggle to make ends meet. Look at it in a different light; are all poor people unhappy? Are all rich people happy? It is true, money buys comfort and securit...