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Boy in blanket fort offers lesson on happiness

It’s just a sheet spread over his crib, but it makes him so happy. There’s so much joy and wonder in this simple thing. It’s an important reminder to me about how little is required to make you happy if you’re willing to open your eyes and see something as new and different.  Happiness isn’t…

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The Patriots lost yesterday. I’m a happy Patriots fan today. You should be, too.

As a Patriots fan who spent yesterday evening in Gillette Stadium, watching his beloved team blunder their way to a second straight loss, you might think that I would be upset today. Depressed. Annoyed. Outraged. Discouraged. Disheartened. Even angry. Enraged.  You might think that the flood of messages that I received from joyous Giants, Jets, and…

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The secret to happiness is based upon perspective and expectation.

Shaquille O’Neal, the former basketball superstar, NBA champion, actor, and the MBA- and PhD-holding business impresario, offers his secret to happiness: My secret is waking up saying it could be worse. 85% of all athletes, three to five years after they’re playing, have nothing, no income, no nothing. I could be one of those guys.…

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