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For those readers who’ve been following this site for a while, you know that I’m big on the subject of happiness (happiness project). I’m blown away by the concept of happiness, its presence on everyone’s goals list, its potential, and how happiness can improve the quality of our lives, or at least the quality of [...]

My whole life I wondered how it is that, all things being equal, two people in the same situation can be happy and unhappy, respectively.
It puzzled me how people gravitated toward happiness in dire situations, while others, who seemingly had everything, were constantly depressed.
Several months ago I stopped wondering and started searching by conducting what [...]

During the month of February, I hosted the Happiness Project. A series of interviews on non-other than the subject of happiness.The possibility that I created for this project, is that everyone who participates, and reads these interviews will be left inspired, empowered, and happier than they were before. Judging by the enormous response from all [...]

In the month of February 2008 I had the opportunity to interview 34 amazing people on the subject of happiness. The possibility that I created for this project, is that everyone who participates, and reads these interviews will be left inspired, empowered, and happier than they were before.
What made this project so exciting is that [...]

The happiness project would not be complete without an interview with Joseph J. DiMaggio, MD., a former oncologist and senior forum leader at Landmark Education. The reason I say it wouldn’t be complete, is because while I was on the phone with Dr. DiMaggio, he explained that for over a year he led a research [...]

The first time I met Jenny Mannion we were at the Steve Pavlina meetup in NYC. That’s the first time I’ve met her in person anyway, I’ve talked to her via e-mail several times before, so she was the first person I talked to when I got there.
Jenny’s story is quite extraordinary, because she has [...]

Neil Selden and his wife Lee are currently wrapping up their first feature film, FINAL GIFTS, written and directed by Neil, produced by their company Wayhaven Productions.Based on historical events and real people, FINAL GIFTS tells the story of two courageous women-a Salvadoran peasant and a Jewish doctor–who fought against fascism in different [...]

Jonathan Fields is…a giddy dad, husband, New Yorker, multi-time health & fitness industry entrepreneur, recovering S.E.C./mega-firm hedge-fund lawyer, slightly-warped, unusually-stretchy, spiritually-inclined, obsessed with creation, direct-response copywriter, small-biz and online marketing-maven, speaker, entrepreneur-coach, yoga-teacher, columnist, author, once-a-decade hook-rug savant and blogger…gone wild at Awake At The Wheel.
Jonathan is an interesting case of ‘getting it’ via tragedy. [...]

Like many of us Steve Olson is on a quest to find personal freedom. Since both Steve and his wife Christine are on this path, Steve often shares both of their discoveries. While Steve does not think personal freedom is necessarily a destination, through persistence the journey that he calls personal freedom can grow indefinitely.
Somebody [...]

This creative cartoonist really has had a great deal of success working from his nest. Freelancing since his early 20s, Tony D. Clark has been a freelancer for nearly 15 years. This freelancing stuff has led Tony to develop a jewelry business, web design company, independent software development, instructional design, and now the building and [...]