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	<title>Color Your Life Happy &#187; Happiness</title>
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		<title>If You&#8217;re Not You, Who are You Then?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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Our efforts to be happy and successful often cause us to imitate other people.
We certainly can and must learn from others, but there is a problem if we do that at the expense of never finding out who we are. It&#8217;s especially problematic when we disguise and numb our feelings.
We can&#8217;t help but feel vulnerable [...]


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		<title>4 More Tips to Gain Confidence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Monday&#8217;s post gave you 3 tips to gain confidence. Here are 4 more.
4. Decide where you want to go in your life.
What are your goals, dreams, visions?
Research the skills and actions that are required to get you there.
Even after you&#8217;ve accomplished one goal, set another one. Having no goals or aims is fertile ground [...]


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		<title>Celebrate Color Your Life Happy Day on August 9th</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
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Many of us begin the year making resolutions, but within a few weeks our promises to ourselves have been forgotten.
A Wall Street Journal article shared plans some people made to help them stick to their resolutions. Some kept their goals small and achievable. Others asked friends to help them stay on track by holding them [...]


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		<title>Want to be Happier? Stop Struggling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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This story of unknown origin has been made its rounds many times because it bears a powerful message.
A man found a cocoon for a butterfly. 
One day a small opening appeared, he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through the little hole.
Then it seemed to stop [...]


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		<title>Practical Happiness Tips: Researchers Prove Grandma Right About Naps</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 22:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
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t amazing how things our Grandma told us about quality of life and happiness are now being discovered by researchers. 
Grandma knew, for example,  that taking a nap was beneficial. Part of grandma&#8217;s motivation, of course, was that putting the kids down for a nap gave the adults a break.
But she also knew it [...]


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		<title>3 Happiness Myths Debunked</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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The desire for happiness is as old as mankind, and the myths surrounding it are alive and well. 
1. Happiness depends on your circumstances.
If this were true, then folks born into dire poverty or who undergo traumatic situations would be unhappy while the fortunates who are born into opulence and live even, pleasant lives would [...]


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		<title>Want to Be Happier?  Get with the New Program</title>
		<link>http://coloryourlifehappy.com/blog/change/want-to-be-happier-get-with-the-new-program</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
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When I was preparing to travel to China the teller at my credit union advised me that merchants around the world preferred their own currency to traveler&#8217;s checks.
So, armed only with my debit card and credit cards, I went on my trip. Just as the teller suggested, I got cash from the hotel&#8217;s ATM machine [...]


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		<title>Tool for Happiness: Give Up the Quest</title>
		<link>http://coloryourlifehappy.com/blog/achieve-goals/tools-for-happiness-give-up-the-quest</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
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Professor Srikumar Rao, creator of popular graduate course Creativity and Personal Mastery, says that anything you think you can get to make you happy is something you also can &#8220;unget.&#8221; His view is that happiness is hard-wired into us and therefore there is nothing we need to get, do or be to be happy.
Listen to [...]


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		<title>How to Cultivate Happiness: Savor Life Like a Child</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
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I was working on my laptop at Borders Bookstore recently when a father came in with his daughter, who looked to be about 10 years old, and the son, about 6. They sat down at the table next to me and pulled out their homework.
Before they started their homework, the dad asked if they wanted [...]


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		<title>How to Cultivate Happiness: Get Rid of the Weeds in Your Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
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eeds are a type of plant that appear in even the best of gardens.  A whole industry of tools, techniques and herbicides has been created to get rid of them. Why are the grass and plants we call weeds so unwelcomed?
Weeds are the dreaded enemy of beautiful gardens because they compete with your garden [...]


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