Category: Freedom; the escape

Picture this: You have found your beach, and settled into your routine. You wake up in the morning, walk/run your beach, stop by your favorite beach shack for a little brunch. You go back to your humble abode, write for a few hours. Then back to the beach, relax and watch the waves while doing…

There I was, in a restaurant in Kansas City, relating to my uncle just how completely miserable I was at work. The details would make a good story. But one I will not write. The people involved in egregious management and cultural blunders are long gone. So many good people, also gone, and doing well…

(ok, still another post to go before I talk about my personal happiness) Remember the previous happiness post… 50% of your happiness genetically based, 10% from circumstances… with 40% based on actions/activities that we control? Now lets look at work happiness… picture these two factory floor cultures: Twenty+ years have passed. Since I worked in…

I had a professor who suggested plotting our individual level of happiness and income once per year. The result, for most people illustrated that as income rose over time, happiness didn’t. Much more recently, research has been published showing a U curve to happiness. Very high as a kid and young adult, then slowly dropping…

Researchers say 50% of your happiness is genetically based. Seems outrageously large at first. But, we all know people who are forever pessimistic, sad, complainers. “How are you doing today?” is always greeted with a list of complaints, ailments, or on their best of days an “ok”. And then there are those who always exude…

(this will be a multipart post, as I like to keep them short, quick reads) Happiness… you know it, when you feel it. Is it hard to define, a multifaceted jewel that changes from every angle? Or can you put it in just two boxes? Happiness in the moment: Your team just won the World…