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33 Time-Tested Ways To Find The Key To Happiness

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What is the key to happiness?

Not just fleetingly happy but deeply content with your life?

Have you figured out how to maintain that contentment so that it's the undercurrent that runs through all of the ups and downs of daily life?

Finding the key to happiness isn't about finding external things, events, or relationships that boost you up.

It isn't about attaining more money or power.

Real happiness, the kind that brings you a sense of inner peace and well-being in spite of outer circumstances requires new mindsets and habits.

If you'd like to open the door to that kind of sustained happiness, you may be using the wrong keys.

Here are some ideas for developing a foundation of happiness and success in your life.

55 Positive Emotions That Make You Healthier and Happier

by Barrie Davenport

All emotions have their appropriate place and time, but positive emotions are the ones most of us prefer to have more frequently, with maybe a light scattering of negative ones to prove we’re still human.

And yet, we often find ways to make ourselves miserable, and then we wonder why we catch every bug that’s going around.

It’s no longer a leap to see the connection between our emotions and our physical (as well as mental) health.

In essence, the more time we spend with positive emotions that are in congruence with our core truth, the healthier we are.

And because what we feel is tied to what we believe and to the words we use to express those beliefs, we can make more room for positive feelings by eliminating the beliefs and the language that are hostile to them.

First, though, we need to know what emotions are and why they’re so powerful.

Extraverted Intuition: 8 Signs That You Are A NE Personality Type

by Barrie Davenport

Do you know who you are?

This seemingly simple question may not be as simple as it sounds.

Psychologists, philosophers and some of the world’s greatest minds have been pondering this question for centuries.

Carl Gustav Jung, a renowned Swiss psychiatrist believed that all human beings are guided by four main psychological functions: sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking.

Some years later, a mother and daughter duo, Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers developed what is now known as the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a predictive questionnaire designed to determine which primary psychological functions guide people to explore and understand the world around them.

“Intuition gives outlook and insight; it revels in the garden of magical possibilities as if they were real.” – Jung

One of the most underestimated and widely misunderstood personality types is the Extraverted Intuitive (NE) and today, shed light on some of the main signs that may indicate that you fall into this rare group.

53 Of The Best Things To Cheer You Up

by Barrie Davenport

Do you know how to cheer yourself up when you’re feeling low?

Some days it’s harder than others, right?

And on those days, even if you know “I need something to cheer me up,” you just can't turn it around.

Perhaps you need something you haven’t tried before.

You’re a creature of habit, but you also thrive on variety.

And with this list of ideas to choose from in this post, you’re sure to find more than a few things to cheer yourself up quickly.

117 Of The Best Thank You Quotes for Friends

by Barrie Davenport

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Good friends are hard to come by, and it can be even more difficult to maintain close relationships when life is so busy and chaotic.

That’s why it’s so valuable to maintain your friendships by sending them thank you quotes and sayings.

You're fortunate to have friends willing to nurture the relationship and be there for you when you need help.

Let them know how grateful you feel with thank you words of appreciation.

But have you ever felt a bit lost trying to find the right words to show your gratitude to this kind of tried and true friend?.

If you can't quite seem to find the words to express how you feel, turn to the collective wisdom of thought leaders, authors, experts and regular people who have crafted quotations of thanks that are impactful enough to be passed on.

This collection will inspire you with the right words to communicate how you feel and to express the right amount of gratitude to your friends without sounding trite or cheesy.