Happiness
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Alertomania
Are your smartphone alerts serving your life—or stealing it, one buzz at a time? — Sakfucius
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Overlooker
A key to peace and happiness is learning to overlook most of life’s daily annoyances and slights. Why let one painful person infect your whole day? — Sakfucius
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Unconditional
How many people do you truly love unconditionally? How many love you the same way? It’s a sobering thought—but also a goal worth striving for in a lifetime. In the meantime, your dog or cat is happy. — Sakfucius
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Ink One
If you only journal one thing each day, let it be what you’re grateful for. It will serve you longer—and far better—than what you did, who said what, or how the weather changed. — Sakfucius
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Screen Aware
Screens fill our homes. What if they often played your family’s best memories instead of Big Bang reruns? Would your days feel different if the past’s joy stayed always in view? — Sakfucius
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Memfacturing
Normal days fade; only the unexpected ones last. What will you do this month to create a moment your family will remember for decades? Why not? — Sakfucius
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Momentary Mirage
Real love expands your life. If it shrinks your world, divides your bonds, or asks you to choose the new at the cost of the many, walk away without looking back. The longer you stay, the deeper the damage grows. — Sakfucius
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Losing Trust
We think we’re fooling others, but it’s ourselves we deceive first. Secrets grow bolder with time—until they cost more than they ever concealed. Why destroy your belief in your own character? — Sakfucius
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Karma’s Gorge
Life is no race on the river. Rapids and boulders are real, but jealousy, gossip, and competition only poke holes in your raft. Help others through the whitewater, and karma’s current carries everyone faster to evening campsites—including you. — Sakfucius
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Harbor Tides
Family anchors for life. Friends are ships in a harbor—docking briefly, trading stories, then sailing away. Keep your harbor open, welcoming new sails that always rise on the horizon. — Sakfucius
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Art of the Hammock
Many people go on vacation but their mind forgets to come. What if you decided on day one—beer in hand, palms swaying, breeze in your face—to leave work behind? You’d be surprised how little is missed when you return to the grind. — Sakfucius
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New Dawn
Few things are better than the calm you choose to create—a pink sunrise, French roast, and a quiet hour to think. The urgency storms will come soon enough; why not start on your terms? — Sakfucius
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Deciding Thought
The art of freedom is deciding when you will think about something again. Those who do bask in the sun and rest beneath the moon; those who don’t never leave the noise behind. — Sakfucius
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Reef Realities
You’re a giant at home; on the vast corporate reef, a small fish tucked in an anemone. Be humble, present, and at peace for your Nemos. Significance is always contextual. — Sakfucius
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Real Friends
Real wealth is having three caring friends who bring light, show up in the dark, and stay through both. — Sakfucius
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Joy To Be Around
Are you a joy to be around? To whom? How about your family? — Sakfucius
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Social Generosity
While most post on social sites to be seen, what if you created posts that celebrated others? — Sakfucius
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Growing Up
Everyone ages, but few grow up — free at last from needing approval or applause. — Sakfucius
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Relationships 301
Have you learned to be happy when indefinitely alone and independent? Only then can you draw an uncompromising line of expectations and have the patience that leads to quality relationships. — Sakfucius
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Happy Spouse 101
Everyone wants attention, affection, and respect. Do you really listen to your spouse and respect their thoughts, opinions, and dreams? Everything starts with listening. — Sakfucius
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Fun
What do you plan and do just to have a little fun? When is the last time you had fun? — Sakfucius
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Control and Stress
Ask yourself if today’s challenge is within your circles of control or influence. Don’t torpedo your attitude and efforts by focusing on aspects you can’t control or the past. — Sakfucius
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Careful Expectations
The wise set high but make-able goals. When your expectations are too high, you are setting your sites on the valley of despair and disappointment. — Sakfucius
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Better
Strive to be better than you were yesterday, rather than compare yourself to others. It’s the path that works while maintaining your positivity. — Sakfucius
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Five Minutes
Don’t let five bad minutes ruin your entire day. — Sakfucius
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Too Happy
If you are feeling too happy and zen, tune into any news channel — they specialize in rage and angst. — Sakfucius
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Freedom Test
How free are you? Are you free to do exactly what you want precisely when you want to do it? — Sakfucius
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Straightforward
A complicated life is a lot less complicated if you always do the right thing. — Sakfucius
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Relationship Icebergs
The dangerous icebergs that sink personal relationships are diverging goals, growth, and interests. Change is inevitable. — Sakfucius
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Gratitude PhD
Gratitude is much easier when things are going well. Those who are grateful when times look dark are those who have found the key to happiness. — Sakfucius
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Road Rage
Road rage comes from an expectation that traffic will be light and drivers will be both competent and kind. Reset your expectations. — Sakfucius
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Peace
Observe everything but ignore much. Fighting every little battle is a recipe for stress. — Sakfucius
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Stuff
Does having more and more and more stuff really make you happy? — Sakfucius
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Expand
Expand your possibilities, expand your circle of friends, expand your life, by smiling and saying hello. — Sakfucius
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In Pursuit of
The fountain of happiness is found by helping others, especially those who don’t expect it. — Sakfucius
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It’s Up to You
Would you rather be a hero to your kids or to passing strangers? — Sakfucius
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Unfailing Disappointment
If you want to be disappointed, expect perfection. — Sakfucius
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Purpose
Don’t confuse purpose with happiness. A great purpose is to make a difference, to make a lasting positive impact. — Sakfucius
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Honesty
Some justify lying and cheating because many lie and cheat, yet happiness, peace, and honesty are forever linked. Choose to be honest and have few regrets. — Sakfucius
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Forgive
Many people are self-centered. Whether you forgive them or write them off is a test of character. — Sakfucius
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Money Buys Time
Being able to do what you want, when you want, for however long you want is worth much more than buying fancy stuff. — Sakfucius
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Pleasant
What if you were 50% more positive and pleasant every day this year? — Sakfucius
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More
More of anything brings more complications, more distractions, more struggles. What’s the optimum amount for you? — Sakfucius
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Traffic Torpedo
Does complaining about traffic help, or does it just torpedo your positivity? Why not leave a few minutes sooner? — Sakfucius
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Complaining
Complaining is a habit that will consume your positivity. What if you decided to skip all complaining? — Sakfucius
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Satisfying Expectations
What you expect decides if you are happy or disappointed in the end. — Sakfucius
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Roommates
All it takes is one bad roommate to swear off roommates for life. If you can swing it, live in a smaller place alone every time. — Sakfucius
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Traffic
What if you listened to a great podcast instead of fuming at incompetent drivers in traffic? Sakfucius
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Predictable Playbook
Many follow a playbook of trying to impress others by showing off everything that they own. Do you find those people impressive?
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Figure It Out
If you never had to worry about money ever again, what would you do? When you know this answer, you can take steps in the right direction. — Sakfucius
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Confidence
Can you find the mindset where you will be perfectly happy and fine if they don’t like you? — Sakfucius
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An Hour
What if you got up one hour early and enjoyed that hour in peace before the hassles of the day? Don’t start with the stress of running late. — Sakfucius
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Fun
What are the top things to do that you find are really fun? When’s the last time you did any of them? — Sakfucius
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The Good Stuff
The best memories are never made at work. — Sakfucius
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Third Key
The third key to happiness is staying busy. A good pursuit, a great mission are frosting but keeping busy is the cake. — Sakfucius
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Data-Driven Biofeedback
Is your health and fitness data-driven? When you have accurate data, it becomes easier to change, to experiment, and to understand progress. — Sakfucius
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Well Employed
Do you know what work you enjoy? How can you find employment where the company pays you handsomely to do mostly what you enjoy doing? — Sakfucius
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What Matters Most
What matters most to you? Do you live your life in balance with what matters most? — Sakfucius
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Laugh Out Loud
When is the last time you really did LOL laugh out loud? Why so long? — Sakfucius
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Kindness
Are you kind? Kindness is magical and precious yet many have built up walls of distrust, sarcasm, and bad attitude. — Sakfucius
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The Little Things
What are the little things you are most thankful for? These are the seeds of happiness. — Sakfucius
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Positivity
Are you five closest friends positive, optimistic, and encouraging? If the answer is no, you need to upgrade in a hurry, as your friends’ attitude becomes your own over time. — Sakfucius
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Retirement Trap
Never retire. Decide what you will pursue in your next chapter but never retire. — Sakfucius
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Crucial Decision
The most important decision in life is deciding who you will marry. If you don’t have compatible desires now and decades into the future, you will struggle. — Sakfucius
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Optimism
Optimism is not optional if one wants to love, live large, and prosper. — Sakfucius
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Details
The key to friendship is genuinely caring about the other person while remembering the details. Write down key details so that you can find them years later. — Sakfucius
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Expand
Expand your network and strive to make friends proactively. The larger your sphere, the richer your life. — Sakfucius
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Closest Friends
Pick your friends carefully because you will become more and more like them over time. — Sakfucius
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Old
Becoming old is a decision, not a date in time. — Sakfucius
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Initiative and Impact
What can you do to make a profound difference on someone’s life? Take initiative when you see an opportunity. — Sakfucius
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Sparkle
People want to be around people who make them feel great about themselves. Help people sparkle and you will have a lot of friends. — Sakfucius
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Relationship Happiness
You must learn to be happy and confident alone before you can succeed in a longterm interdependent relationship. — Sakfucius
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Ethics and Employment
If you discover that you work for an unethical employer, leave decisively and don’t look back. Life is too short. — Sakfucius
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Free Your Mind
Free your mind by not caring about what others think. Most are average, yet too many imprison themselves by worrying about people’s average judgements. — Sakfucius
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Analysis Paralysis
Has anyone ever analyzed their own feelings and come to the conclusion that they are happier than they thought they were? — Sakfucius