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Happy Life Tip of the Week, Issue #011 -- Get the Grand Essentials
May 27, 2009
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Get the Grand Essentials To Ensure a Happy Life

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers

These elegant words, written 200 years ago, accurately reflect our best happiness science today. Outside our genes and our circumstances, which we usually can not change, researchers today find we can be happier by managing our thoughts and actions.

For example, Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his book, Finding Flow, outlines research that shows we remember being happiest during those times when we are "in the zone"- so focused on doing something we love and care about that all else fades away except rising to the challenge before us. The concept of flow includes all of the Grand Essentials- something to do, love, and hope for.

Although Allan Chalmers wrote about things, we know now that our interaction with people is an important key to happiness as well. When we have someone to love and we incorporate all the grand essentials, as indicated in research by Dr Gary Chapman in how we express love. The grand essentials are available to any one, anytime, anywhere.

Get your grand essentials now to ensure a happy life.




Affirmation I am blessed with the grand essentials of a happy life. I seek out things to do, love and hope for that inspire me.

Journal or Meditation Question What are my happy life grand essentials? What do I do, love and hope for?



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