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Using Your Role Models to Help with Good Judgment

In marriage counseling and life coaching, when you are solving difficult problems or simply going through your day-to-day situations, it is helpful to consider using your role models for advice and guidance. Whether you are making major life decisions or establishing current goals, the ideas you project onto your role ...
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Getting Together with Friends Boosts Your Happiness!

I have just spent this week reconnecting with some of my Sigma Kappa sisters from Illinois Wesleyan University. Some of us have not seen each other for 2 months and some for 48 years. After 10 minutes it was like there was no time lost. We were back in the ...
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Values Develop Happiness

We want to think of happiness as experiencing positive emotions, having rewarding interpersonal relationships, engaging or being in flow with life, creating meaning in life, and attaining success or achievement. Happiness or well-being can be developed and built. A great initiative is to make improved well-being an important goal. If ...
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Increase Your Happiness through Mastery

Become a master at something. You will feel proud of your success and achievements knowing you are doing your very best and you are outstanding and exemplary at what you do. Becoming a master involves your use of curiosity, perseverance, love of learning, self-regulation and a number of character strengths. ...
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Happiness Can Be Increased By Spending More Time Socializing

We know from research in couples counseling and life coaching that spending time socializing on a weekly basis with people you know, people who care about you and depend on seeing you, will increase your well-being and lifespan. Fordyce found through seven studies there are 14 activities that will increase ...
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Summer Vacations are Filled with Happiness

HAPPINESS JOURNEYS What have you done with your summer? What are your successes? How have you had fun or pleasure? What have you been engaged with? What meaningful things have you done? What people have you spent time with that gave you wonderful and loving experiences? What have you accomplished ...
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