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Want to Be Happy? Step Up to the Plate and Hit the Ball

Happiness seems to require pursuit after all, according to researchers.
In their article, “Pursuing Happiness: The Architecture of Sustainable Change” in the Review of General Psychology, Lyubomirsky, Sheldon and Schkade define happiness as it’s presented in the rest of well-being literature: frequent positive affect, high life satisfaction, and infrequent negative affect.
They point to three [...]

Are You Normal, Do You Want to Be and What Does This Have to Do with Happiness?

During a reunion of friends I hadn’t seen for a year, we met over dinner and each shared our progress toward personal and professional goals.  In the process of sharing events of her year one friend disclosed that she’s motivated by trying to prove to her family that she is as smart as her high-achieving  [...]