4 powerful questions to rewire your brain for more happiness and success
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 means that the natural habits and “wiring” of our brain – as well as the environment and setting of our modern world – are not […]
Powerful story to improve your thinking
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 of those…. A story of elephants, ropes and choices. “When I was a small boy, I loved going to the circus. Animal acts were my […]
One minute activity that will transform your mornings…and your life
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 alarm clock? Or that it is a nice sunny day? Perhaps you start listing down the thing you need to do that day straight away? […]
Would you shout at a puppy? A lesson in mindfulness
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 – and also on our attitude of impartial observer, not getting attached in our the thoughts (or anything else) that we are observing and keeping […]
5 books that made me a better person
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 being a very gentle natural soft “aha”’s, no shocks or surprises, no feeling like you discovered something crazy new, but more sort of coming back […]
Live more, need less: The link between minimalism and happiness
“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 bit later :)) describe the idea in the core of minimalism. Today’s topic at first might seem a bit of a surprise – it is […]
Want to refocus your life? Try this 3-minute exercise
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 you are not even sure what they are – this exercise will be a great way to bring you straight back to balance. It gives […]
Please don’t pursue happiness, try this instead!
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 word pursuit (according to the dictionary): 1. the action of pursuing someone or something.”the cat crouched in the grass in pursuit of a bird” – […]
7 quick ways to use minimalism as a tool for happiness
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 like the idea, but it seems a bit overly ambitious or strict, or perhaps something that takes too much time and focus? How about taking […]
Amazing exercise to help you love yourself a little bit more
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 Pillar 4 of happiness: Being own best friend. It is a code name for everything that is about connecting with ourselves, both to know ourselves […]