I’m with the bird:
Comic by Tom Gauld for The Guardian. Click it to see it on its original page.
Tag: happiness
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Happiness is Like Peeing in Your Pants
Everyone can smell it, too.
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The Recipe for “Happy”
Those of you who’ve been reading this blog for a while know that hedonics – the study of what makes us happy or unhappy – is a pet topic of mine. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that I like the graphic below:
Yes, the “Change something” part of the flowchart covers a ridiculously large amount of ground – the “something” could be “your world”, “yourself”, “how you see things” or a mix of the three — and up to several years of work, personal journeying and possibly therapy, but the procedure outlined in the poster is the basic recipe for “happy”.
Here are links to the people and/or entities that appear in the credits at the bottom of the poster:
The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun is a cute little video created by Michael Bungay Stanier’s Accordion City-based work-coaching company, Box of Crayons. Those of you who know me personally might find these principles strangely familiar…
Here’s a graphic I found the other day while doing a little computer “housekeeping”. I thought it would be perfect for the first post of the new year and decade:
Do the assignments, but don’t forget to do life!
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Living in the “Hooray!” Zone
Yes, the demands and schedule of my job as Sith Lord at Microsoft have kept me quite busy, but it doesn’t matter because I live in the “Hooray!” zone, as shown in the Venn diagram below:
For more information, see the LifeHacker article titled The Road to Happiness in Your Work Lies in the Hooray! Zone.