by Peter and Beth Bostwick | Nov 27, 2017 | Experiences, Happier, Peter's Voice
What does it mean to fake being happy? I went through many years of my life faking being happy. An employee of mine used to say I was the happiest guy he knew. I always seemed to have a smile on my face. Whenever he asked me how I was doing, I would beam back...
by Peter and Beth Bostwick | Nov 22, 2017 | Happier, Peter's Voice
If the measure of your happiness is whether you are happy now and your Happiness Ratio is how much of your day you spend being happy, let’s get to the big question: How happy are you? Or better, how often are you happy? To get a sense of how happy you are,...
by Beth Bostwick | Nov 22, 2017 | Beth's Voice, Experiences, Observations, Peter's Voice
Thanksgiving is here again and the turkey with all the fixings we always look forward to. It’s also a moment when we take some time to reflect on all the good things we have in our lives and give thanks. It may be around a table with friends and family, or it may be...
by Peter and Beth Bostwick | Nov 15, 2017 | Happier, Peter's Voice
Are there different levels of happiness? Does it start with sort of happy and go all the way to very happy? Or is happiness binary – either you’re happy or not happy? Can you even measure happiness? There are all kinds of studies and tests – some of...
by Peter and Beth Bostwick | Nov 2, 2017 | Experiences, Observations, Peter's Voice
Beth and I have had a fantastic couple of weeks. It started off two weeks ago when we went to the Science and Nonduality conference in San Jose, CA.(https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/conferences/sand17-us/). This was an amazing conference with hundreds of...
by Peter and Beth Bostwick | Oct 29, 2017 | Happier, Peter's Voice
Happiness is complex yet amazingly simple. You know it when you feel it but often struggle to describe or define it. Is it an emotion? Is it internal feedback? Is it a frame of mind? Is it even more? The good thing about happiness is we don’t have to know what it...
