I am part way through a year-long happiness project. Each month I set myself a different challenge with the idea of making myself more happy over the course of that month. When I was trying to think of a challenge for June, I really just came up with a blank. Read more…
For those who are not aware, this year I am embarking on a happiness project. In January, I sang every day with S. In February, I attempted to address my health and fitness. In March I worked on gratitude, and in April I said hello to strangers. I was Read more…
For those who are not aware, this year I am embarking on a happiness project. In January, I sang every day with S. In February, I attempted to address my health and fitness, and last month I worked on gratitude. I must admit, for April I was having trouble Read more…
For those who are not aware, this year I am embarking on a happiness project. In January, I sang every day with S. In February, I attempted to address my health and fitness. I spent March practising gratitude. Each evening this month I have posted on Facebook a list Read more…
Since I am spending 2015 on a year-long Happiness Project, I quite like the idea of spreading the love a bit, and sharing a few happiness tips… 1. Listen to music. Not just any music; something you really, really love. These days, I’m either working, or out, or S is here – Read more…
For those who are not aware, this year I am embarking on a happiness project. In January, I sang every day with S. In February, I attempted to address my health and fitness. This month, I will be working on gratitude. In my podcast last week, I talked about Read more…
This week’s podcast is all about generosity and gratitude, and how I think both can help us to be more happy. [spreaker type=standard width=100% autoplay=false episode_id=5660898] Here are some links for things I mention in the podcast: Shawn Achor’s amazing Ted Talk where he talks about how being grateful trains our Read more…
Davina McCall has a new dvd out. Davina: 7 Minute Fit follows a long line of fitness dvds from Davina; she’s been bringing them out for ten years, and seems to have all but cornered the New Year fitness market. I bought one of her early dvds, and also had her Pre Read more…
I decided at the start of this year to engage in a Happiness Project over the course of 2015, with a different challenge each month designed to make me a bit more perky. In January I sang every day with S… and spent most of the month saying “I’ve Read more…
Well, here we are at the end of January and also the end of the first month of my Happiness Project. This month’s challenge was to sing every day with S. Highlights of this month include: As mentioned in my podcast, one evening S was sitting in my lap Read more…
In my first podcast this week, I mentioned the concept of being generous, but in an off-the-cuff sort of way – so I thought I would elaborate on what I meant. Aside from my Happiness Project, I decided to make one resolution this year: to be generous. I don’t mean Read more…
The January Blues are rife at the moment; it’s so easy to get lost in a grey fog of dark mornings, grey days and a distinct lack of anything good on the horizon. We all tend to get that sort of low-level “meh” where we’re not really depressed, just not quite Read more…
I seem to have started a tradition of monthly challenges. It started when I gave up interacting on social media for Lent. Then, in September, I gave up eating sugar. In October, there was the #OctoberLetters project, where I sent a letter each day (actually by the end of Read more…