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The Difference Between Happiness and Joy
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email to a friend We all prefer happiness in our life over unhappiness, sadness and grief, and we try to arrange the circumstances that bring happiness into our life. However, the things that we think make us happy often backfire and cause grief instead. For example, a drink of an alcohol beverage will take the edge off our stress and give a bit of happiness, but one drink leads to another and then another until there is no happiness just a dulled brain, and a hangover the next day. If…
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The 7 Areas of Life Where You Must Take Control…
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email this article to a friend The easiest thing to do is to complain about everything in life and do little to make changes. If you are to have a life of fulfillment, you must take control. The purpose of this article is to talk about the areas of life that you can control and must control lest they control you. The 7 Areas of Life where you must take control: Creating happiness Resolving problems Helping others Accomplishing goals Building relationships Dealing with circumstances Changing our spiritual state Creating happiness:…
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Waiting for Happiness…
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email this article to a friend It seems that most people are waiting for happiness to come their way. They believe that when they lose that 10 extra pounds, get that new job, new husband or wife or become successful, then they will be happy. The thing that many don’t realize is that all the things we want to get or things we want to happen to us will only bring a temporary rush of happiness until the new wears off and then it’s back to the same old grind…