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Mirna Šmidt

4 powerful questions to rewire your brain for more happiness and success
Pillar 10 - Building resilience Pillar 5 - Creator’s mindset

4 powerful questions to rewire your brain for more happiness and success

  • By Mirna Šmidt
  • June 27, 2019

Our brain’s evolutionary purpose has always been to keep us alive: our brain is ideally wired for survival… but our happiness was never very high on the evolution’s list. That…

Be smarter than the elephant and make your life more meaningful and free
Pillar 11 - Meaning & Purpose Pillar 5 - Creator’s mindset Pillar 6 - Achievement & active creation

Powerful story to improve your thinking

  • By Mirna Šmidt
  • June 20, 2019

You know those stories that make you think – perhaps depress you a tiny bit but also encourage you to more your butt and do something better? This is one…

One minute activity that will transform your mornings
Pillar 1 - Presence & Mindfulness Pillar 2 - Positive emotions Pillar 4 - Being own best friend

One minute activity that will transform your mornings…and your life

  • By Mirna Šmidt
  • June 13, 2019

What is the first thing on your mind when you wake up? Is it that you don’t wanna leave a nice cozy warm bed? Is it that you hate your…

puppy mind
Pillar 1 - Presence & Mindfulness Pillar 5 - Creator’s mindset

Would you shout at a puppy? A lesson in mindfulness

  • By Mirna Šmidt
  • June 6, 2019

In meditation, we often focus on working with our attention – perhaps guiding it to our breath or any other object that we choose as the focus of our practice…

Pillar 1 - Presence & Mindfulness Pillar 4 - Being own best friend Pillar 5 - Creator’s mindset

5 books that made me a better person

  • By Mirna Šmidt
  • May 30, 2019

You know that feeling when you come across a book, and it totally draws you in, full immersion, and creates couple of “aha” moments – but all of these moments…

Pillar 1 - Presence & Mindfulness Pillar 11 - Meaning & Purpose Pillar 12 - Positive relationships

Live more, need less: The link between minimalism and happiness

  • By Mirna Šmidt
  • May 23, 2019

“Disciplined pursuit of less”, “focusing on what really matters” or “simply owning only stuff we love” is how some of the leaders of the minimalism movement (more about them a…

Pillar 11 - Meaning & Purpose Pillar 6 - Achievement & active creation Pillar 7 - Conscious self-development

Want to refocus your life? Try this 3-minute exercise

  • By Mirna Šmidt
  • May 16, 2019

How are you doing these days? If by any chance you feel like your life is ok, yet there are definitely small things that make you grumpy – and perhaps…

Pillar 0 - Positive Psychology Pillar 5 - Creator’s mindset

Please don’t pursue happiness, try this instead!

  • By Mirna Šmidt
  • May 9, 2019

A lot of talking these days about “pursuit of happiness”. (I confess, we are also guilty of sometimes saying that :D) Let’s have a peak into the meaning of the…

Pillar 1 - Presence & Mindfulness Pillar 12 - Positive relationships Pillar 7 - Conscious self-development

7 quick ways to use minimalism as a tool for happiness

  • By Mirna Šmidt
  • May 2, 2019

Probably you’ve heard of minimalism, a trend of reducing number of possessions with aim to focus on what matters most and create more space for meaningful things. Perhaps you even…

Pillar 4 - Being own best friend

Amazing exercise to help you love yourself a little bit more

  • By Mirna Šmidt
  • April 25, 2019

Inspired by meditation from Kamal Ravikant’s book Love yourself like your life depends on it. Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It At Happiness Academy, we often talk about…

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