Here in Boulder Creek, I have lived up the street from a place called 'HeartMath' for a while. It was established in 1990, about 7 years after I moved here. I read a little about it in a book called 'Happy For No Reason' by Marci Shimoff, which is a great book by the way. My wife and I went on one of our walks and I got ... Read More

There sure are a lot of inconveniences. A lot of things to complain about. We can sit and talk for hours, maybe even day about things that bother us. The way the toilet paper rolls off the roller, the thickness of it, or how soft or hard it is. The traffic and the way people drive. The water quality or the air quality. Then there is ... Read More

Kids. You have to love them. But sometimes your life and theirs butt heads when it comes to your happiness and their happiness. In a perfect world, everyone's happy doing their own thing and not getting in each others way of total and complete happiness but children need a lot of attention and that takes time. We all want the best for our kids. We want them ... Read More

Are you approachable? Do people smile at you when they see you and ask you things like, “How are you?” Do people want to be around you and talk with you? People seem to want to be friends or even do business with people that have a friendly, approachable look. People that are happy, confident, look as though they know who they are, and where they are going. ... Read More

I ask this question to all my clients, friends, and even people I meet on the streets or while I'm out and about shopping. Everyone gives me a funny look and has to give it some thought before they try and answer. Happiness is the key to success. Happiness is what everyone should be striving for. Happiness is the goal in life. I don't know anyone that ... Read More

You are going to start your day with a smile, keep that smile all day, end you day with a smile, and then sleep with a smile on your face. Your happiness is directly linked to your success. The happier you are, the more successful your going to be in all parts of life. When your day starts off bad it's an uphill battle to get it to be ... Read More

Many stories have a moral or a lesson behind them. Those are good stories because we learn from them. Every now and then a story will be told with more than one moral or lesson and those are great stories. What makes this story the “Greatest Story Ever Told” is it is told in a movie that is 2 hours and 22 minutes long. Then it has many ... Read More

Here a some things you should make sure you do everyday you go to work to make your co-workers a little happier when you show up. Some of them you might consider doing even on those days you don't go to work. Working in a small office make doing these things even more important. Do not eat a lot of foods that give you gas. At work there is usually ... Read More

There's one thing that all the happiest people have in common. Well, actually there is quite a few things, but this one simple thing is at the top of the list for total happiness. What's the opposite of happiness? Most of you will say 'sadness.' But ask the people that are truly happy and the answer is anger. Anger is the opposite of one being ... Read More

Money is what it's all about, right? Without money it is impossible to be happy. Money is needed to buy all the things that bring happiness. This is the way most people think. But studies show that this is not true. I have found the same through my own studies. The good news is that once you do learn the many things that it takes to be ... Read More

Being a grown up is a constant battle it seems. It seems that we are being thrown different problems to tackle from the time we get up, till the time we go to bed. Then we have nightmares all night about different things that have happened. Those dreams are suppose to mean something. When we are young the problems are much smaller and we don't seem to care ... Read More

Happiness is and has always been very easy to afford. I'm sure you've heard, “Money can't buy happiness,” and there is some truth to that, but for the most part that is very wrong. For true happiness and fulfillment you must have served a purpose. When you begin to serve that purpose you will immediately start feeling the deep inner happiness that unfortunately most people never feel or only ... Read More

This is a tale from Japan about how a little kindness will give you good luck. Once upon a time, long ago of course, for that's when most good stories take place, there lived a man named Mr. Straw. Mr. Straw had no home, he had no wife, he had no children, he had nothing but the shirt on his back, in fact. For Mr. Straw had no luck. ... Read More

Adapted from Raymond M Alden Little acts of kindness do not go unnoticed above, even if they go unseen by the crowd below. There was once in a faraway country a wonderful church with a gray stone tower, with ivy growing over it as far up as one could see. In the tower was a chime of Christmas bells Every Christmas eve all the people of the city brought to the church ... Read More

There is a big difference between healthy ambition and consuming envy. In this old Japanese tale we see the latter, always longing for something in the distance. Once upon a time in Japan, there was a poor stonecutter, named Hofus, who used to go every day to the mountainside to cut great blocks of stone. He lived near the mountain in a little stone hut and worked hard and ... Read More

It's hard to say if everyone has a day in their life that a life changing event happens. An event that changes the way you think, act, and feel. The day when you realize your purpose and thoughts are racing through your mind twice as fast as before. I would like to think so. That everyone will discover their purpose to live a fulfilled life. Fulfillment that ... Read More