Archive for July, 2010
8 Myths in Life You Should Break for Success
"If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere" - Marilyn Monroe Do you follow every rule in life, whether the rules are set by your employer, law, or your peers? Most of the time people try to make new rules to make life easier for us – think about for example how dangerous traffic is in countries where rules are not obeyed. However, there are also some rules that most [...]
What Would You Do If You Didn’t Have to Work for Money?
"Live with your whole being all the days of your life. Your reward will be true happiness" - Rebecca Thomas Shane One of the best questions you can ask yourself if you are looking for a new direction in your life is “what would I do if I would get enough money each month without doing anything?” What are the things in your life you love to do – things that make you feel good and [...]
How to Get 3 Seats on a Plane For the Price of 1 (and Sleep Well the Whole Flight)
“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” - Dagobert D. Runes I’ve been traveling quite a lot during my adulthood, and one thing I have learned is that it is very difficult to sleep in planes nowadays because the space between seat rows is optimized and there’s really no extra space for your legs or to bend the seat [...]
Time to Change the Layout a Bit
As you can probably notice, I have changed the layout of Happiness Hunters a little bit. What do you think, is it going to the right direction? I'd appreciate some feedback in the comment section, because it's so hard to know what kind of layout you readers would like to see. :)
I’m Taking the 7 Link Challenge Today
I stumbled to this idea first briefly in Twitter, but only after seeing the amazingly cool fellow blogger Joshua Noerr take the challenge at his blog at www.joshuanoerr.com, I decided to take the challenge as well. This challenge has been started by Darren Rowse from Problogger and the idea is that anyone who takes the challenge should publish a post that is a list of 7 links to posts that you [...]
Would You Like to Have a Life without Failures?
“I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong” - Benjamin Franklin Fear of failures is one of the biggest drivers behind most people’s actions. It makes them to always look for situations where they know the possibility of failure is minimal. In other words, they miss most opportunities of their lives. What if I told you that there is no such thing as a [...]
How to Save Money (to Do Something Fun Later)
“The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.” - Kin Hubbard Many people don’t have a lot of extra money and they use pretty much everything they get and a bit more (taking short term loans like pikavippi, pikalaina, pikavippivertailu or vippi, which is not wise). Okay, the fact is that we are not going to get our money with us when we die, [...]
5 Habits that Will Make You More Intelligent
“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.” - Victor Hugo Genetics have a lot to do with your potential IQ, but intelligence is not only about the ability to understand and learn new things – the more you know about things the more intelligent you appear to be and the easier it is for you to master things. You can become more intelligent by [...]
How to Make Your Photos Look More Professional
“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.” - Aaron Siskind Photography is one of my biggest passions, and one good photo can make me happy even after many years, when I find it again on my computer. I have been taking photos for a long time, but it [...]
4 Plus 1 Unconventional Methods for Waking Up Earlier
"There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." - Author unknown Waking up early is almost impossible for me. Getting a cat would probably be a solution, but as I don't want to go that far, I hope that there are other solutions that work as well. I need quite a lot sleep, at least 8 or 9 hours to feel normal, and 9 to 10 hours of sleep to wake up without an alarm clock. [...]
