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Happiness, fulfillment and well-being for 2015, what does it mean?

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  HAPPINESS & WELL-BEING? "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." —Aristotle "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things." - Albert Einstein We have all asked the question ‘am I happy?’ but perhaps we are asking the wrong question... ...So what should we be asking instead of "am I happy ?" Well let’s first look at lasting states of well - being and life fulfillment, as oppose to fleeting emotions, such as happy or sad, to assess our lives. Well-being is all about your state of life and living. Well-being is a construct (construct meaning a complex concept, idea or notion) which has many measurable elements like, emotional/psychological, economic, social, physical, and environmental well-being. Well-being is also all about ‘flourishing’ and thriving in our lives. It has got to do with ‘self actualisi

Well-being with Marie - Extraordinary living: Why people are judgmental - How to be vigilant in ...

Well-being with Marie - Extraordinary living: Why people are judgmental - How to be vigilant in ... :   Be vigilant in your judgments of others! ‘Those people are like this, these people are like that ... Sound familiar? O...

Why people are judgmental - How to be vigilant in your judgments of others!

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  Be vigilant in your judgments of others! ‘Those people are like this, these people are like that ... Sound familiar? Our tendency to make unfair, biased and un-informed negative judgments of others. Dropping your judgment and expectation of others: What does this mean for your own personal growth towards extraordinary living? “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” ~Mother Theresa Let me start off by saying, it is sometimes necessary to make judgments based on our assessment of our environment for safety & life-preservation. This is not the context of this post. What does it mean when we negatively and unfairly judge people?, or expect people to be a certain way, instead of just accepting and allowing people to be who they are, or what they aspire to be. "Your perceptions and judgments of others reveal so much about your own personality," says Dustin Wood, assistant professor of psychology at Wake Forest.