I’ve recently been hearing a lot about, and just today read an article about a new online phenomenon called “Second Life”. In short, it’s a virtual, online world in which you create your own “persona” and then intereact with others (called avatars). You can be what you want and do what you want. […]

Today, there are 40 students walking around campus with bigger-than-usual smiles on their faces. The twinkle in their eye is because of a professor who passionately impacted their lives. Ask any of them how they feel about life and they will reply, “It rocks.” I know this because I am one of those students. I […]

South Korean gangsters get more satisfaction from their line of work than the police, according to a survey published on Tuesday in local dailies.
I’m not sure what this means for my happiness, or yours for that matter, but you can read more from this interesting (happiness related) research by clicking here.

Armand Nicholi, associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, asks his students each year whether or not the people around them are generally happy. Almost always he is answered with a resounding no.
Happiness is also the reason why you have come here to USM. Like me, you are here to receive a college […]

Chinese New Year’s treats include candy, seeds, fresh fruit and dried and candied fruits. Fresh fruits include oranges, tangerines, clementines and kumquats, all symbols of abundant happiness. Look for tangerines with their leaves intact, which are believed to bring security in relationships with family and friends. (The Yak found tangerines with leaves at Whole Foods […]

Sufiy Davis was watching an episode of Oprah when she had an epiphany. In the Playing It Forward episode she was watching Oprah was giving $1,000 gift cards to each of her guests with the stipulation that they spend the money on a complete stranger within a week. Davis was struck by the generosity and […]

Money cannot buy you happiness, according to new research from the University of Ulster.
The most important sources of happiness are good health and freedom from financial worries, Professor Vani Borooah found.
He studied more than 3,000 interviews from the Poverty and Social Exclusion in Northern Ireland survey and the results of his research were published recently […]

From childhood to old age, we are taught to do something in life and the motivation behind that “something” is usually money. We market ourselves to big firms to get a job, hoping to accumulate a chunk of cash in the future.
America is a country of immigrants - everyone comes here for money, which […]

I recently came across the following tips for achieving happiness in the workplace (thanks to JoAnna Brandi).
1) Positivity - Be positive, and focus on the positive in both the people around you and in the company in general. This means you’re looking at the strengths in others and at what the business does […]

What the hell is happiness, and where can I buy me some? Movies and magazines propounding the great American - read Australian - dream of entrepreneurialism are fessing up that it simply isn’t the job of capitalism to make us happy. Rather, the onus of happiness falls upon our own scalps.
White goods and red sports […]