How to be happy during a heat wave
- Fri Jul 22 2011
- Sarah Treleaven
This week in Toronto, the temperature has consistently been in the 30s — and, once you factor in the humidex, the 40s. While that level of heat might sound like misery to some, I'm having a pretty great time. So why is the heat wave making me so happy?
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How does your best friend make you happy?
- Sat Jul 09 2011
- Astrid Van Den Broek
I’ve got besties on the brain this week.
My daughter, freshly busted out of school for two months, has already hooked up with her best friend — in fact the two of them are not only playing soccer two nights a week together, but tackling about five weeks of camp together.
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The connection between optimism and happiness
- Tue Jun 21 2011
- Astrid Van Den Broek
How do you see the coming summer? Are you complaining already that it’s going to be rain filled and humid? Or sun drenched and a time when you can stretch out and enjoy life—and the outdoors—a bit more?
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Five summer things that make me happy
- Mon Jun 20 2011
- Sarah Treleaven
In honour of tomorrow being the first day of summer, I have compiled a list of things that I love but usually only have access to during the summer months — just in case we're not all excited enough about the impending heat.
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Happiness is a bicycle?
- Fri Jun 10 2011
- Sarah Treleaven
Over at Brain Pickings — a very cool site, by the way — Maria Popova brings attention to a new book by Robert Penn, It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels. In addition to delving into his personal relationship with the bicycle, Penn also explores bike history and culture.
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What are your summer happy resolutions?
- Mon Jun 06 2011
- Sarah Treleaven
Over at The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin recently posted about a resolution of hers — "Take a Field Trip" — where she describes a recent visit to a perfumerie in New York to seek out good smells and cultivate some happy-making fragrances. It's a little touch that can make life a little happier, and it's got me thinking about how making (and, ideally, sticking to) some resolutions isn't just for January 1. Life in the spring and summer feels so different to me than it does in the fall and winter, so it's only fitting that I should have a different set of ambitions and projects.
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Flashback to happiness
- Thu Dec 09 2010
- Astrid Van Den Broek
Two weeks ago we started a new bi-weekly feature in The Happiness Plan called Flashback to Happiness, where we invite readers to share with us a happy moment in their lives. Got a great moment to tell us about?
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