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Index of Articles about Happiness
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Positive Thinking - Redirecting Your Thoughts
Jaz Lai
Positive thinking can be an almost insurmountable goal when you have had a really tough day.
If you are like most people, such days begin harmlessly enough, and things get progressively worse as the day wears on, until your are wondering when the day will end. Practicing the art of positive thinking is the farthest thing from your mind.
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Homeless People A Forgotten Part Of Community (The Fayetteville Observer)
Derrick Adams died in an abandoned house in Fayetteville sometime before Christmas. He had been dead at least several days - maybe even weeks - before his body was found Christmas Eve.
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However, you can benefit from the effects of positive thinking by practicing putting a positive spin on all of the negative things affecting your life daily. When it seems as though your whole day is being ruined by a string of negative events, and you are allowing all this to overwhelm you, that is when you can most benefit from positive thinking activities.
The key is not to let these unpleasant events consume your energy and life. You must learn to redirect the negative thoughts that result in accordance with a "bad day" into positive thoughts. Whenever you find yourself spiraling down into the pit of self pity and despair, concentrate on using the art of positive thinking to overcome your situation.It is easy to succumb to your negative thoughts when you are going through a difficult or trying time. For example, perhaps you are concentrate so much on all the small things that go wrong at work that you forget about all the accolades and compliments that are normally the mainstay of your job. So what if you had a bad day or two, you must learn to focus on all the positive aspects that are a larger part of the scheme. Once you learn this, yo can really experience the gratifying effects of positive thinking.
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It Really Is All About Attitude (Herald & Review)
"Attitude is everything!"
Commentary: Dover Senior Keeps Supporting Team Despite Being Sidelined (The Times-Reporter)
Dover High senior Stuart Ramsell has kept a positive attitude in a negative situation.
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As you go through life on a daily basis, you must stop and re-evaluate the situation if you find yourself thinking negatively. You must then redirect and channel your energy into positive thinking. Once you learn to automatically implement this change of thought pattern, you will notice that your entire outlook on life improves. So go ahead and put the theory into practice, and you will soon master the art of positive thinking.
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The Just Wait Teen Program
The teenagers of the Just Wait Teen™ program are exposed to the information and research concerning their Happiness, their Temperaments, their Talents, their Attributes, their Gifts and how to maintain long term relationships. The Just Wait Teen™ program is life enhancing program, not a substance rehabilitation program. Although its' objective is to give the teens tools and understandings to reach 21 years - substance free.
This Program was developed by the Just Wait Foundation a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation to prevent drug, alcohol, and tobacco problems among teenagers. The Foundation provides one-year scholarships (two semesters) at a Community College or $1000 award to teens that completes the 4 year Just Wait Teen™ Positive Youth Development Program, obtains a GED, or graduates from high school - alcohol, tobacco, and drug free. The Just Wait Foundation has arranged to use of 80 acres to raise fruit and vegetables to finance the scholarships
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The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment
The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment must be the most astounding psychological study ever performed, or at any rate ranking right up there with some of the experiments done by Stanley Milgram.
Who would ever guess that a brief observation of a four-year old alone with a marshmallow would be an excellent predictor of college entrance exam scores — twice as good a predictor as IQ test scores? In one of the most amazing developmental studies ever conducted, Walter Michel of Stanford created a simple test of the ability of four year old children to control impulses and delay gratification.
Children were taken one at a time into a room with a one-way mirror. They were shown a marshmallow. The experimenter told them he had to leave and that they could have the marshmallow right then, but if they waited for the experimenter to return from an errand, they could have two marshmallows. One marshmallow was left on a table in front of them. Some children grabbed the available marshmallow within seconds of the experimenter leaving. Others waited up to twenty minutes for the experimenter to return.
In a follow-up study (Shoda, Mischel, & Peake, 1990), children were tested at 18 years of age and comparisons were made between the third of the children who grabbed the marshmallow (the "impulsive") and the third who delayed gratification in order to receive the enhanced reward ("impulse controlled").
The third of the children who were most impulsive at four years of age scored an average of 524 verbal and 528 math. The impulse controlled students who scored 610 verbal and 652 math! This astounding 210 point total score difference on the SAT was predicted on the basis of a single observation at four years of age! The 210 point difference is as large as the average differences between that of economically advantaged versus disadvantaged children and is larger than the difference between children from families with graduate degrees versus children whose parents did not finish high school!
At four years of age gobbling a marshmallow now v. waiting for two later is twice as good a predictor of later SAT scores than is IQ. Poor impulse control is also a better predictor of later delinquency than is IQ.
Obviously there's a strong correlation between IQ and impulse control. People who do well in life have lots of both, and vice versa for those who don't do well.
Sociologists have regaled us for years with their theories as to the causes of poverty: lack of education, structural causes, racism. But it seems that, at least where opportunity exists, the reason for differences in income and wealth is that the poor have high impulsivity.
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The Just Wait Teen Program
The teenagers of the Just Wait Teen™ program are exposed to the information and research concerning their Happiness, their Temperaments, their Talents, their Attributes, their Gifts and how to maintain long term relationships. The Just Wait Teen™ program is life enhancing program, not a substance rehabilitation program. Although its' objective is to give the teens tools and understandings to reach 21 years - substance free.
This Program was developed by the Just Wait Foundation a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation to prevent drug, alcohol, and tobacco problems among teenagers. The Foundation provides one-year scholarships (two semesters) at a Community College or $1000 award to teens that completes the 4 year Just Wait Teen™ Positive Youth Development Program, obtains a GED, or graduates from high school - alcohol, tobacco, and drug free. The Just Wait Foundation has arranged to use of 80 acres to raise fruit and vegetables to finance the scholarships
We offer free training for any person or group that wants to start this program in their community.
Contact Us
Copyright 2009 - 2010 & Developed by
Just Wait Teens
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