HJ: It’s the little choices we make everyday that have the biggest influence on our happiness and joy.  We like to think it’s the big shifts that change everything, and they certainly can, however, your happiness is much more dependent on the consistent, day to day choices that you make.  It is these habits that define your life from moment to moment and set the course you will follow.

Below, you will find 10 simple, but powerful habits that will create greater happiness and joy in your life.  What a gift : )

- Truth

10 Choices You Won’t Regret in 10 Years

By Marc Chernoff | Marc and Angel

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I don’t regret the things I’ve done.
I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.

In the end, more than anything else, we regret the chances we didn’t take, the relationships we were too afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make.

Think about it…

The big opportunity you procrastinated on.  That friend you never called.  Those important wor...

HJ: For most of us the problem is not finding motivation, but getting past our own fear and self-doubt.  If only we could get rid of them, we would be able to achieve anything we set our mind to with ease.  And it’s true (to a certain extent).  Without these two emotions we would move forward rather effortlessly.

But there is a reason why we experience fear.  It is meant to keep us safe and alive.  It is a built in survival mechanism and without it, well, we probably wouldn’t last very long…

However, the problem lies not with fear itself, but irrational fear.  This is learned fear of things that do not actually threaten our survival or wellbeing.  This kind of fear is counterproductive and keeps us stuck where we are at despite our best intentions to move forwards and grow.  This is the kind of fear and self-doubt you need to get rid of and exactly what the article below deals with.

- Truth

Manage Your Brain to Play a Bigger Game

Be the master not the victim of your brain.

By Marcia Reynolds, Psy.D. |

HJ: Each of us is on our own path in life.  Everyone moves at their own pace and is learning lessons unique to them.  When we understand this and accept this, we can move from expectation, judgement and want to a place of love compassion and acceptance.

When we project our desires, insecurities, fears, preferences and wants onto other people, we see them as less perfect than they actually are.  We forget to love them unconditionally no matter where they are at.

The truth is that what we perceive in others is in many ways a reflection of ourselves.  Our need to control.  Our need to be right.  And even more deeply, our wants, needs, fears, dreams, desires and aspirations.  We have a tendency to project our positive and negative aspects onto others, not realizing that what we see in them is ourselves.

The article below is one that will make you think not just about other people, but more importantly, about yourself and how your relationship to them reflects many things about you.  In the process of opening up and deciding to look at yourself and the world differently, you’ll not...

HJ: Your happiness is only limited by your beliefs about what is possible for you to experience.  We constantly define the boundaries of our lives, mostly unconsciously.  The trick is to begin making this process conscious and therefore taking our lives of autopilot (or worse yet, off of the path someone else put us on!).  This is consciously creating your life and it is the point at which the sky becomes the limit in terms of whats possible for you, especially in regards to happiness.

There are many things that influence your happiness, some of which are discussed in the article below.  However, there is one very important factor that I would like to point out here and that is the level of acceptance you practice in your life.

Your level of acceptance of ‘what is’ is the single biggest factor influencing your happiness in life.  The more you resist what is, no matter how painful it is in the moment, the less happy you will be.  The more you live in the future or the past, the less happy you will be.  Consequently the more you accept what is, the happier you will be.  The quicker your u...

HJ: At the core of your being, you are love.  Bringing more love into your life, then, is not a process of adding, but removing what is blocking it from shining through.  The same goes for happiness.  Happiness and love are two sides of the same coin.  If you tap into love, happiness is not far behind.

Looking out on our world you might forget this is the case, but it is so.  We have simply let our natural love and light become covered with the beliefs of a society that has forgotten its true essence.  We have let generations of hurt and pain and misery accumulate for lack of self healing.  It is passed on unconsciously from parent to child until the chain is broken by one who decides to go on an inner journey in search of their true self — to rediscover love.

You are on that journey, which is why you are here reading this article.  You are close to what you seek…

- Truth

10 Ways to Let Go and Open Up to Love Again

By Vishnu | Tiny Buddha | Vishnu’s Virtues...