Laughter is proven to be effective keeping heart attacks away. Studies at a university show happy people are less likely to have heart conditions. Researchers also discovered sick people are less likely to laugh.

Do not believe it? Did you know it is an excellent exercise for your brain, as it releases oxygen to your brain. Laughter reduces your stress hormones and strengthens your immune system. By laughing you improve confidence and improves your communication skills as well.

Do you laugh often enough? Maybe you are taking everything a little bit too seriously? How often do you stop and look around or just take a break. Everybody knows food is important for our health. Eating healthy is important, and most people knows this, why not keep yourself mentally fit as well?

Do you laugh very often? A good start is to go out to visit bars that have stand up comedy, watch a funny show on the television, or just go out searching for funny videosfunny videos online. Comedy shows on TV are the fastest way to get a good laugh. Whatever your interest is or what makes you laugh, comedy shows is a quick way to get a laugh.

Perhaps jokes are better for you? Maybe look up a few very funny jokes. Sharing jokes are great.

Remember that life is not all about work, it is also about having fun and enjoying life! Life can be serious in itself. Maybe do some videos of yourself doing something funny, share it with your friends and the internet. Laughing at yourself is very healthy.

Go out and have some fun!

Our memory plays a very vital role in our lives. From remembering our friends’ names to remembering simple things like have we eaten or not, the memory controls our daily activities. As such, keeping our memory as fresh as a newly baked muffin is definitely essential. But what happens when you realize that you have a memory capacity of a 60 year old although you are only 30? Don’t let this happen to you, so start early. Improving memory is not at all that hard. After reading this article, you will be amazed by how ridiculously easy it is to have your memory all worked out to the maximum. Read on these 4 easy techniques to save your memory and make it last longer of even, forever.

Boosting your memory works nothing like curing yourself from fluenza. You will realise that the ideal way to ensuring good and lasting memory is to pick up on healthy living habits so as to keep your memory functioning at its optimal level.

#1 Keep your brain active

By allowing your brain to keep active will allow the brain to adopt better memory skills. This would include remember facts, names and telephone numbers just to name a few. As time goes by, your brain will continue to grow and develop and hence you will need to feed it. Alternatively, you can keep your brain active by working on mind-boggling puzzles, mind games and crosswords. Alternatively, you can try out new things such as learning a new sport, to keep your brain working all the time.

#2 Exercise, exercise, exercise!

Exercising is the root of keeping healthy. You might be 50 years old but behind the wrinkles, you actually feel no older than 30 years old! That is how these workouts can help you. At the same time, exercising will help to prevent you from memory loss and improves circulation throughout the body. Exercises help to rejuvenate your body and soul and hence, allowing you to better relax your mind and hence strengthening the memory. Doing simple exercises or yoga will allow you to achieve the desired relaxing mode.

#3 Stress alert

When the going gets tough, some people will just explode and let their rage out. Some prefer to stay quiet, but deep down; they compress all stress and anger inside. This calls for some stress relief awareness. It is definitely not good to burst through the doors when you are angry, and at the same time, it is definitely not good to suppress anger either. Anger and stress should not bee suppressed at all times because it will just halt yourself from performing at tip top performance. A troubled heart leads to a troubled mind, so, prevent yourself from a clogged mind and learn some of the ways you can handle or avoid this unnecessary stress.

#4 Healthy diet

Yes, a healthy and well balanced diet is the key to improving memory.The market provides a plethora of supplements and vitamins but so far, there are no scientific proves to back up these supplements. Foods like broccoli, berries, spinach and blueberries are definitely encouraged.

Jot these pointers down, and keep them in your sight. You will definitely need these tips to prevent your memory from deteriorating further.

It will probably come as no surprise that our fast paced world has greatly increased the reading demands we face, and we need to improve the rate at which we read in order to obtain all the essential information. This ability to read more quickly must be learned, since we are taught early on to read words out loud.

Speed reading software has been developed to meet these new learning demands. These products help to ensure that this demand is met and in the most interesting and innovative ways possible. It can often be quite difficult to scan a document, especially if your mind is used to hearing the words first.

However, there is a distinct difference between scanning and speed reading documents. By learning proper speed reading techniques you will be better able to obtain and retain information when you read fast. Your eyes and mind work together to accomplish the task.

An added benefit of speed reading software is that it makes learning how to speed read fun and easy. Most of the free speed reading software incorporates games that, as you play them, are actually teaching you the techniques you need.

Over time, as you learn to speed read, you will train your mind and eyes to read through information more quickly than before without the need to reread the material. For people who constantly work with written documents, this training will also help you to identify the most important information so you can focus on it.

One of the problems in reading for information is that words often have more than one meaning. However, the techniques that you will learn in the speed reading software games will help you out. It will teach you to link the words that you extract from the document so you can understand the intent of the text.

You will find that when you use speed reading software properly, you will dramatically improve your grasp and retention of information and as a result produce better written work yourself. The improvement in your research and note taking skills will result in an improved ability to convey accurate information to your own readers.

Speed reading is not a difficult skill to learn and with speed reading software you can practice it in the privacy of your own home. For many people this is the ideal way to learn something new without getting frustrated.

They both said - Be who you are - and Do what you love - and you will Have what you need! And that is what brings happiness.

Well I have been saying that for 10 years - and wrote the book five years ago.

Now I am teaching how to do that at our new website at http://www.Self-Improvement-Lounge.com

There is a lot if cool stuff there - but one thing  that is REALLY cool is the free self improvement evaluation quiz.

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We all understand happiness ebbs and flows, but some people are definitely more happy on average than others. This is fascinating and worth a look.

Another interesting question to ask is: What is the happiness level you would want to be averaging?

Once you have decided what is your optimum number, congratulations! You have now set a goal. How do you go about achieving it?

The most simple method is to look what one thing you could change that would make the most difference in your attitude. Work on that one thing.  If you believe you are unhappy because of a relationship, a job, where you live, your lifestyle… then pick one area that you feel could change you most and begin to do the things you know you have to do to change it!

I know you know what to do - because if there is something in your life that affects your happiness that much most likely you have spent a lot of time thinking about it. True or true?

If you have spent so much time thinking about it - why have you not begun to change it? The reason probably is that most of us dislike change, and it always seems to be easier to maintain current condition than face the unknown world of change.

That in itself can add to your frustration - and being less happy!

A couple of things to remember about happiness:

1. Happiness is feeling ‘good’ opposite feeling ‘bad’. One way to increase happiness is to follow the ‘good’ feelings and avoid the ‘bad feelings’. This is not rocket science but many overlook this simple technique. We tend to do things based on incorrect motivations. Instead of doing what you think others want you to do - do what you feel is good or right. Learn to smile when you are angry. Learn to laugh when you are sad.

2. Happiness is a choice. Unfortunately, there are no happiness stores no matter what the advertising leads you to believe. A new car will not make you happy for very long! Learn to choose to be happy.

3. Happiness is tied very closely to gratitude. Being grateful for everything we have opens the door to joy and happiness. Funny enough it also opens the door to plenty!

4. Let it go. We all tend to hold frustrations, anger, sadness, and other anti-happiness emotions for way too long. Realize the choice to hold these emotions are destructive to your happiness and learn to let them go.

So now, on a scale of 1-10 (10 being deliriously happy) - just how happy are you?

I am happy for you!

Actually much of the tasks he lays out for you are the same things I do to build several of my businesses.

If you are a locally owned service or store - you can get people to your store fairly easily with this process.

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And - if you have trouble doing this and need help - let me know.

Too often people believe that finding happiness is as simple as finding something else they want. In my experience, no one has ever found long term happiness by achieving another goal. Ultimately, to find happiness is to invest the effort look within yourself.

In other words, happiness is completely an inside job. The most important piece to finding happiness is to comprehend happiness is a personal choice and not the result of an experience. If all happiness could be found as the result of an acquisition, meeting a goal, or having anything, then a person’s happiness would always be subject to something else.

Remember this: one definition of happiness is simply the absence of an opposite emotion whether it is pain, sadness or something else. If the opposite emotions are never experienced then happiness can never be experienced either. Think about it like this: bad times allow you to appreciate good times; hunger allows you to appreciate food; and sadness allows you to appreciate and experience happiness.

The dictionary defines happiness as enjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction or joy.

"I’ll be happy when" is statement commonly heard when discussing happiness.

• When I get a nice house, I’ll be happy.
• I’ll be happy when I retire.
• If I had more money, I’d be happy.

‘If I had’ scenarios all follow the same flawed reasoning; that is happiness is based on external circumstances.
If you base your happiness on external circumstances, you will continuously fail to find happiness. Will there not always be another external circumstance? Another dollar, another job, another house, or another partner"?

We must find our happiness somewhere else. Find happiness within yourself. We have been given everything we need to be happy.

Allow yourself to choose happiness. If life was perfect would you be happy?

Life is perfect because we create it with our choices. Since we can create life, we can create
happiness - and how much better can it get?

If you can accept that life is perfect as it is and that our lives are the sum total of everything that has happened to this instant, then you can accept the joy and happiness
you deserve and they work toward creating the life you want - and be happy in the doing of that task.

I realize that this concept is very difficult for some to accept. However, the alternative to bein g happy now is to spend the rest of our lives seeking happiness as if
happiness was an item to be bought or found.

It’s not. Just remember the famous saying: Don’t worry - be happy!

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Organization and focus.

This is what I mean.

Almost ten years of coaching and consulting with small business owners and executives has helped me define a few major areas of business to which every owner should pay close attention. If these areas are constantly monitored and improved, amazing progress can be made. Your business can operate much more smoothly, more efficiently, and with much less headaches than it does today by understanding of few key principles.

#1 A great vision is the starting point for every great company. What is your vision? How often do you communicate your vision to your staff? If I asked your staff (or you) to tell me the vision of their company would they be able to do that? I find in many companies a serious discrepancy between an owner’s vision and the vision as defined by individuals within that business. Without a common vision, there are no common goals, and since every one is working towards their vision it is quite possible people are working towards different results and even against each other.

#2 The second crucial piece is your processes. What are you and your staff doing on an ongoing basis to reach the vision? How are these tasks measured, refined, documented and rewarded? Without properly documented and agreed upon processes and procedures accountability and responsibility are placed in the hands of the people doing the work; when in fact responsibility should be to the process with accountability for following the process. (You might want to read that again!)

#3 Let’s not forget about people. Owners understand that without people business is limited in its capacity to grow. Why is it than most owner’s biggest complaints are about people? Problems hiring, firing, training, motivating and managing staff and their activities often are the biggest source of challenges for any owner.

#4 Most owners of small businesses work too hard in their business and spend too little time on their business. Working on your business is the primary job and the main responsibility of the owner. The reason you spend so much time working in your business? You have yet to focus on steps 1, 2 and 3 as outlined above. This becomes much more of a challenge when you are the owner AND the staff!

I created an online video to cover these subjects and give it to business coaching clients as a preliminary sales tool. In this immediately available online video course I have done my best to distill into easily understandable and implementable strategies the steps any owner or executive can use to take control of almost any business.

In this video you will learn:

Why you should have a vision and how you go about the finding and communicating a vision.

Process and procedures are thoroughly covered with simple examples and clear steps to creating the processes and procedures you need in your business.

Management of people and how to solve challenges related to staffing as well as the function of management are covered in detail.

Special emphasis on the role of the CEO with the three major responsibilities of every owner are also included.

Overall this video is a must see for any owner feeling caught in a challenging situation and looking for the steps necessary to move any business up a notch or three.

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If not - what challenges ARE you facing in your business?

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If you are in the US I hope you are thankful for what you have - and that you enjoy the day!