Reading Time: 2 minutes “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough” (Mae West). Younger generations embrace a way of life often called “YOLO,” for “You only live once.” Yet we need to find a way, as an individual, to build a personal life based on mindfulness and vision in order to live productively […]
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Englishman Jeremy Bentham was the first philosopher to posit a pragmatic “greatest happiness principle.” He said that the greatest civilization has the happiest citizenry and, therefore, policies that increase the happiness of the largest number of people are the best ones to follow. However, until recently, little was known about human happiness, and governments stopped
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Though your inner feelings change many times during the course of a day, everyone has a baseline level of happiness. Evidence suggests that people with high baseline levels of happiness live longer, healthier lives than those with low baseline levels. People feel attracted to things that produce pleasure and avoid things that cause pain. You
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Anyone can be happy temporarily. The trick is to maintain this happiness throughout your life. Use the below five happiness “hows” to understand happiness better: Stay positive – Would you feel positive if a game show host knocked on your door to give you a check for a million dollars? You know you would. Unfortunately, the
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Research suggests that the initial steps to becoming happier can be implemented straightaway. Be grateful – The powerful antidote to negativity about bad life experiences is an “attitude of gratitude” about good experiences. Research indicates that people who appreciate things feel a strong sense of satisfaction and are more optimistic. As such, they are much
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Don’t be one of those people who believe they are destined to be unhappy. Reorganize your thinking and guess what? You can be happy, even if you aren’t wealthy, beautiful, admired by your peers or a lottery winner. External circumstances don’t determine true happiness. What counts is your attitude toward life. If you’re positive, you
Reading Time: 5 minutes Every year, people from various professions and backgrounds — athletes, engineers, doctors, teachers, you name it — take part in the Climate Reality Leadership Corps trainings around the world. Over the course of three days, trainees learn from world-renowned experts about how to inspire their businesses and communities to take action on climate change. I
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Ongoing CO2 emissions contribute to existing atmospheric conditions, ensuring that by the end of the 21st century, carbon dioxide will be the main determinant of global warming. The deleterious effects of current GHG emissions will last for centuries. Even if all anthropogenic CO2 emissions were to end right now, climate change will continue. According to
Reading Time: 3 minutes In 1968, when Apollo 8 broadcast the first images of Earth from space, millions of Earth’s citizens observed their planet in all its glory and beauty; blue, white and breathtaking. Even trained astronauts were stunned! That beautiful and breathtaking sight is rapidly changing, and nearly gone today. Its rich blue oceans are darkening and turning
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Is globalisation a threat to current generations? Possibly. In future globalisation will be accepted as an economic and social norm; our future generations will view globalisation as an essential component of doing business. This will happen despite increases in protectionism to mitigate decline in resources, such as agricultural resources in some countries. An increasing population
