Relevant Article on Happiness #2

Sonja Lyubomirsky, who apparently is on the faculty at Stanford, wrote this piece on her faculty page explaining why some people are happier than others.
She first identifies several cognitive and mental processes:
1)How people compare themselves to peers
2)How people justify trivial and important life choices
3)How people judge themselves
4)How people think about others
Happy people, according to her [...]

Relevant Blog Post on Happiness #1

Not that this site gets much traffic yet, but in my effort to catalog and attain happiness I would be remiss if I didn’t link to this post from thesimpledollar.com, a personal finance oriented blog I visit daily.  The author, Trent, does an outstanding job of focusing on personal finance while remembering the big picture.  [...]

The Zen of Animals

It appears to me that animals are much more emotionally balanced than humans.  They seem to lack the ability to either be too happy or too sad.  When they play, there is a fleeting yet seismic joy that quickly dissipates; when they are in pain, they quickly get over it once the pain goes away.  [...]

Walking the Dog

Today my wife left to run an errand not far from the house.  Since I had some time to kill, I decided to take one of our three dogs for a walk.  We ambled over to where she was, and then stopped at a nearby park until she was done.  It was fairly warm out, [...]