What spurs you to try new products?
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comWhen it comes to facial treatment products, I find that I like to at least sample products that friends have led me to. If a friend recommends a product as accomplishing what it is hyped to do, I rely more on their judgment than an ad campaign.
How about you? Have you tried (or […]
Bike riding after a long hiatus
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comOne of my early pleasures in life was bike riding. There was something about the freedom of it all — being able to go fast, get places on my own, with the wind in my hair, seeing the neighborhood sights up close and more easily than in the car. And it is so […]
Read the rest here: Bike riding after a long hiatusMaking study and learning a habit
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comThis came across my computer from Insight of the Day today:
I believe people should study a little bit every day. It should become habitual, like brushing your teeth, combing your hair, having a shower or getting dressed. Study the mind, the laws of the universe and paradigms. There’s enough information on those subjects to keep […]
A role model
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comThis article about Vivian Cherry, an almost 90 year old NY street photographer, is quite fascinating.
Be sure to click the accompanying interview with her. It shows pictures of her earlier life when she was dancing and many stills from her newly published book, Helluva Town: New York City in the 1940s […]
Happy Spring
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comClick here to see a lovely flower garden.
At first your screen will be black, but click your mouse anywhere on the screen — then move your mouse around.
Enjoy!
Karin
Dancing with her dog
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comWho knew there was a sport of dancing with your dog! I sure didn’t.
This was sent to me by my aunt.
‘Shel, you should appreciate this one!
Karin
How we get through hard times
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comThis quote came across my computer today:
“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.” Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt 1767-1835, German Statesman
I have to say I don’t totally agree with this. […]
More good news
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comI was so happy to see the father and his children saved, after being lost in the snow.
On another front: a friend’s husband is getter better by the day after not being able to work for several weeks. Doctors had not been able to help him. This turn around came, […]
Staying on top of things
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comWe recently took a trip cross country to see family — we had a lovely, lovely visit — on American Airlines. Interestingly enough, we did not fly a single flight that we had booked and all of the seats were, of course, different. Granted, we might have taken the first flight (which was […]
Read the rest here: Staying on top of thingsMore about happiness
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comThis is an article from the Washington Post.
There’s a table of different country level of happiness — and the number of positive events needed to offset a negative event. It seems the happier you are, the more it takes to get you back to happiness.
I wish for you positive events!
Karin
The elusive nature of happiness, part 7 (end)
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comSo what can you do to maximize happiness and minimize the opposite?
Some things seem like common sense (not revolutionary):
…the revolutionary idea that true happiness lies in building on our strengths, not rooting out our flaws. Liz Seymour
If I’m going through hard times, I try not to beat myself up over it. That just […]
Have fun with this
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comYou can make yourself a cute little icon to insert in your email at BlessThisChick.
I can’t figure out how to put the one in that I just made up for myself, but it is darling.
Have fun!
If I have time, I’ll write more this evening.
Karin
The elusive nature of happiness, part 6
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comH = S + C + V
Happiness = Set Point + Conditions of Your Life + Volunteer Activities
The S and C account for …60% of our happiness. “But that still leaves 40% which is really quite a lot.” [Lyubomirsky] Liz Seymour
I’d like to know where they get their percentages. I think there are […]
Ni hao, Kai-Lan IHappy
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comThis is a great story about a Chinese adoptee who was chosen to be the voice of Kai-lan. Don’t miss the rest of the story.
Hearing what her adoptive mother has been through and seeing the IHappy license plate brought tears to my eyes.
Karin
Jade-Lianna Peters steps into an audio recording booth at I V Media […]
The elusive nature of happiness, part 5
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com…things, whatever their number, contribute surprisingly little — somewhere between 8 and 15% — to our sustained happiness. Variables such as age, education, health, income, personal appearance, and even climate are ineffective at overriding our genetically determined set point.
…external factors have little impact on our level of happiness…our brains…turn out to be amazingly adapable […]
Butterfly card
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comThis is a really cute butterfly card, suitable for kids to view too. How clever!
Karin
The elusive nature of happiness, part 4
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com[One] You can’t change your genes, but you can tinker with the essential wiring of your brain. Selective serotonin reuptake [this is such an interesting word to me…and has some spiritual parameters, even the next word, ‘inhibitors’] inhibitors, such as Prozac, Zoloft, and others work to prolong the action of serotonin, the brain chemical […]
Read the rest here: The elusive nature of happiness, part 4The elusive nature of happiness, part 3
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com[The late David Lykken, a professor at the University of Minnesota, concluded, based on 3 decades of research on twins, much of it identical twins raised apart] that 50% of our proclivity for happiness or for melancholy (our ’set point’) is determined by our genes.
“From person to person, the variation is really quite large,” says […]
The elusive nature of happiness, part 2
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comI think it’s possible to have a certain level of happiness underlie all of our experiences, the good, the bad or the ugly, if we are aware of them. That’s possibly what is meant by having a set-point for happiness. It’s there, somewhere. I wonder if we can set our set-point higher […]
Read the rest here: The elusive nature of happiness, part 2That elusive nature of happiness, part 1
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comI got a chance to read a bit on the flight we took recently. The US Airways September 2007 issue had some insights on happiness worth thinking about. The editor, Lance Elko, began the issue with his own letter in which he quoted:
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized. […]
Seeing the present moment as a sacrament
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comMaybe, I put blinkers on, but I can’t remember any miserable times in my life. I see the present moment as a sacrament. It’s all about sacrament — eating, conversing, being with friends, telling a good joke and making people laugh. Sister Immaculata Knox
Seeing the human and divine coincidence in the particular, […]
One of the most beautiful places on earth
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comOne of the most beautiful places on earth is Lake Tahoe in California/Nevada.
The water is so clear, it reminds me of the water at the summer cottage I visited in Finland. The water looks only a few feet deep because the rocks on the bottom can be clearly seen, but it is […]
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