Live Inspired — happiness

Exist to be happy, not to impress. One of the key elements to life that we all want is to be happy, yet we make so many decisions on a daily basis that go against our own happiness.  Or, we don't even think about it and just do what we think we should do, rather than think more about what we really want or what makes us really happy. Life is a give and take, and sometimes we do have to do things that we would prefer not to do in order to help others in our life, or to...

"When I was 5 years old my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down 'happy'.  They told me I didn't understand the assignment and I told them they didn't understand life." Of all the things that we can be in our lives, one thing we all have in common is the desire to be happy.  Today is the first day of Spring, and it's also International Day of Happiness!  I always love the change of seasons, and...

"The trick is that as long as you know who you area and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you." -Wendy Mass What makes you happy?  Can you answer that question? And if you can, are you doing those things that make you happy?  Life gets busy, I know it's hard to always be doing something that you enjoy and that makes you happy, but you have to find time for it.  When we don't find time for the things that make us happy, we get drained emotionally and we start to build up negative emotions. ...

"Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like." -Will Rogers This week in our Quotes to Live By episode, I came across this quote from the actor Will Rogers.  It covers the topic of consumption and why do we really spend in the first place.  Do we purchase things and spend our money because we truly love the thing we are buying?  Or are we just doing it to impress people and to satisfy the unrealistic need to have the latest and greatest of things?  My point in...