Archive for August, 2008

Happiness in a bottle?

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Ok so I’m not a chick so I’m not up on fragrances. But I thought it was notable when I discovered that Clinique, the cosmetic company has a whole line of products called “Happy”.

Don’t believe me? Here ya’ go.

I read somewhere that this was Clinique’s best selling fragrance.

I get the same effect everytime I leave and return to my home because I planted rose bushes on both sides of the steps leading up to my door.

Can you really get happiness in a bottle?

Tags:
Posted in Happiness observations, Unanswered questions | No Comments »

Success! You’re a new member!

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Soon it will be time to start changin’ your ways and getting more happiness time with yourself.

I will contact you at the email that you signed up with about how to get started with your new membership.

Matt

matt at happiness -boot-camp.com

Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Success! You have subscribed.

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter. You will now receive these posts by email.

Of course, we won’t share your name with anyone and you can unsubscribe anytime.

Thanks,

Matt

Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

We joined Technorati

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Ok, technorati. Here’s your post. You want your link in a post to validate that I actually own this blog. No problem. <a href=”http://technorati.com/claim/faqypi8d86″ rel=”me”>Technorati Profile</a>

Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Brett Favre needs my happiness classes!

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

There is nothing more disconcerting to me than seeing a grown man who can’t make a decision.

Brett Favre has demonstrated the fact that even if you’re a multi-millionaire Super Bowl Champion, you still may have difficulty finding happiness.

Let that be a lesson to us all.

Here’s what I would tell Brett if he called…

1) Focus on helping others in order to help yourself.
I so wished he would have stayed at Green Bay and helped coach that new QB. That would have done wonders for his self-esteem. He didn’t give that a chance.

Brett, you don’t need the spotlight to be happy. It’s actually more fun and rewarding to help others succeed than to succeed yourself once you’ve achieved mastery of a subject, which you have.

2) It’s ok to make a mistake.
Brett, learn to make a decision and proceed. You can correct it later. Most successful businesspeople are where they are because of the mistakes they made, not the high percentage of “correct” decisions they made. Besides, stories of people’s mistakes are a lot more fun to hear!

3) Listen to your gut.
Brett, you’re not listening to yourself. You retired because deep deep deep down inside you knew it was time. Honor your gut instinct next time. You know what the right answer is.

Ok that’s all the happiness advice I can give right now.

I gotta’ go get tickets to the Dolphins/Jets game on September 7th.

Email me at matt at happiness-boot-camp.com or comment here.

Tags: , ,
Posted in Happiness observations | No Comments »

I’m unhappy that there is so much information about being happy I can’t get through it all.

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Have you noticed that the subject of happiness, the pursuit of happiness, the elusive nature of happiness, and the relationship of happiness to money is talked about so much, it’s difficult to digest?

Anyone else drowning in a  pool of information and opinions?

It’s ironically upsetting.

It’s like being shown a great big piece of chocolate cake through a glass window that you can’t get through

This is why I believe it’s necessary to have happiness classes.

I’m going to boil it down into quick lessons so that the subject of increasing your own happiness level becomes actionable. You will have some takeaways to improve your chances of having a good day.

Because as we all know, every day is a good day. If you’re able to read the Obit’s in the newspaper, you ain’t in ‘em. And that’s at the very least a better start than those folks in the newspaper, wouldn’t you say?

Posted in Catching myself happy, Catching myself unhappy, Happiness observations | No Comments »

Happiness classes

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Here’s what I’ve decided to do.

I’m going to hold some happiness classes.

These will be telephone classes.

This is a high demand topic but I can’t find anyone doing tele-classes on this. So I appoint myself.

I’ve been studying personal self-improvement for 20 years.

I’m doin’ it. I help people be happier!

What are your thoughts about what subjects we should cover?

I’m a no-nonsense guy. You’re not going to hear me blather on, with the sound of a fireplace in front of a cross. No dumb yellow smiley faces, either.

I’m going to provide a top-ten list of actionable items. You can do this with little impact in your day.

You’re not going to have to invest a lot of time. If I do this right, it’s going to be a quick “touchstone” type of program where you can drop in, catch a tip or two and go about your day. And maybe during that day you’ll actually put a tip or two into use and have a bit more happiness in your day.

Check out this post for more information on the happiness club

Tags:
Posted in Happiness observations | No Comments »

I just set up an email address for this site

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

You can reach me at matt at happiness-boot-camp.com

Sorry for the “non-link” email address. Just type it into your email client and send me an email if you’d like.

Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

It’s probably me.

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

I was driving to work the other morning thinking about this site.

As I was rolling down the highway, this song from Sting “It’s probably me” came on.

I quickly made a note about the song.

Why do I feel this song means anything about happiness?

It’s like this. Most time, any lack of happiness is caused by an inherent deficit of something in our life.

It’s not obvious, but there’s a connection. If you’re angry about traffic, if you’re angry about something your spouse said or did, in my opinion…

It’s probably you.

I was thinking about this “taking responsibility” concept. I had read in a book that if there’s something not right about you personally, the people closest to you can become very annoying.

Think about that. Does that have any truth in your life?

And then this song comes on the radio. Lyrics below…

Written by Sting, Michael Kamen and Eric Clapton

If the night turned cold
And the stars looked down
And you hug yourself
On the cold cold ground
You wake the morning
In a stranger’s coat
No-one would you see
You ask yourself, ‘Who’d watch for me?’
My only friend, who could it be?
It’s hard to say it
I hate to say it
But it’s probably me

When your belly’s empty
And the hunger’s so real
And you’re too proud to beg
And too dumb to steal
You search the city
For your only friend
No-one would you see
You ask yourself, Who’ll Watch For Me?’
A solitary voice to speak out and set me free
I hate to say it
I hate to say it
But it’s probably me

You’re not the easiest person I ever got to know
And it’s hard for us both to let our feelings show
Some would say
I should let you go your way
You’ll only make me cry
If there’s one guy, just one guy
Who’d lay down his life for you and die
I hate to say it
I hate to say it
But it’s probably me

When the world’s gone crazy, and it makes no sense
And there’s only one voice that comes to your defence
And the jury’s out
And your eyes search the room
And one friendly face is all you need to see
If there’s one guy, just one guy
Who’d lay down his life for you and die
I hate to say it
I hate to say it
But it’s probably me

I hate to say it
I hate to say
But it’s probably me
I hate to say it
I hate to say
But it’s probably me
I hate to say it
I hate to say
But it’s probably me

Posted in Happiness observations | No Comments »