Category Archives: BYOH: Build Your Own Happiness

BYOH: Build Your Own Happiness or How to hack your own happiness buttons. Today, the topic is about not taking yourself too seriously. I have a bad habit of taking myself too seriously. I get teased for it, a lot. Sometimes, I need to take certain things, seriously, because not doing so is an affrontContinueContinue reading “BYOH: Go Easy On Yourself”

BYOH: Build Your Own Happiness or How to hack your own happiness buttons. Today, the topic is Me-Time. I’m a firm believer in the idea that an individual is better able to take care of others when they take the time to take care of themselves. Many of our lives are filled with work andContinueContinue reading “BYOH: Me-Time”

How to hack your own happiness buttons. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. That’s defensive optimism in a nutshell. How can defensive optimism help you push your own happiness buttons? If you are any kind of a control freak, like I am, then you plan for everything, even things you only “think” willContinueContinue reading “BYOH: Defensive Optimism”

BYOH: Build Your Own Happiness or How to hack your own happiness buttons. Today, the topic is hobbies. Finding a hobby saved my life. It saved my sanity. When I was a divorced, single mom, working for peanuts, doing karaoke for other people and unsuccessfully, trying to find a job to help me make endsContinueContinue reading “BYOH: Build Your Own Happiness”

BYOH: Build Your Own Happiness or How to hack your own happiness buttons. Today, the topic is boundaries. I’m a notorious “Go-Alonger”. I go along, to get along. I don’t like conflict and I can’t stand drama. I’m practically world-famous, as a door-mat, but I’m currently in recovery. Setting up boundaries is one way thatContinueContinue reading “BYOH: Build Your Own Happiness”