Pushkin Industries. Being Well with Dr. Rick Hanson. Rick Hanson, Ph. The Science of Happiness. Good Life Project. More by ABC News. The Dropout. ABC News. Start Here. Have You Seen This Man? FiveThirtyEight Politics. Remember that everyone has something special that makes them interesting, too! J is for Just: Early Learners Have you ever had a disagreement on the playground or when playing a game? K is for Kind: Early Learners Offering a warm smile. Being gentle. L is for Loving: Early Learners You can show that you are loving in lots of ways: Give someone a hug.
Show that you care. When you are loving, your heart will feel full! Some days are messy: You forget to brush your teeth.
You fight with your friend. Nothing goes right. Being messy is okay. It just shows you have new things to learn and new ways to grow. N is for Natural: Early Learners Your skin, your hair, and your eyes are part of your natural self. Those things are uniquely your own and are part of what makes you special. O is for Open-minded: Early Learners Every day is a new chance to open your mind to new ideas.
But if you get up and try again, you are being persistent! Q is for Questioning: Early Learners How does a kite fly? Why is the sky blue? What are clouds made of? Being curious and asking questions helps you make sense of our complex world. R is for Resourceful: Early Learners Figuring out how to solve a problem means you are resourceful. When you face an obstacle, be creative and keep trying! Rubin also discovered during her research that a person's connection to others plays a major role, too.
And something else: It's not big things, like a new house or fancy car, that makes an impact but little things, like the smell of an orange, that can give the biggest happiness boost.
Psychologist Dr. Jane Gruber agrees and points to studies indicating that the more you accept who and how you are, the happier you are likely to become. Robertson says she is happiest spending time with her family, but admits sometimes it's getting away that brings her joy, either going for a run or losing herself in music.
One other little thing experts say could help. Travelling with small children can be a less than joyful experience. The only family holiday we have so far attempted was a cruise which involved point blank refusals to attend kids club, two extremely small cabins and a couple of bouts of gastro. So I am happier staying home with the backyard, iPads on hand and the possibility of grandparents to babysit. Would I be happier if I slept more?
See previous comments about floor sleeping in small children's bedroom. So yes, me and 61 per cent of my countrymen and women. Would I be happier if I had more children? Forty-one per cent of us strongly disagree with that notion and per cent of me does as well. In addition I just did a quick survey and found that three out of three of my own children per cent agree that another kid is not a good idea given we have only managed one family holiday in five years.
Get our newsletter for the best of ABC Everyday each week. Then I start to deviate from the norm, moving down into the single digits. I am one of the 8 per cent of Australians who somewhat disagreed with the statement, "I would be happier if I had more money".
The "somewhat" refers to the fact that I guess if I had more money I could do things like go on an overseas trip by myself and pay lots of people to entertain my children while I did it.
But I also know that more money isn't necessarily going to improve my life because unless I won lotto, I would have to work harder to get that money and working too hard is a source of unhappiness. So the data tells me I am typical in some ways, atypical in others and taken together it amounts to this. I would be happier if every week I managed to find time to wander through the park on a clear, smokeless day with my finite number of children and my sufficient level of income after a good night's sleep having forgotten to take my phone.
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