10 Loving Ways to Add Happiness to your Relationships


“Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.” ~Malagasy Proverb

After receiving countless lovely emails and messages regarding different kinds of relationships and the problems in them, this is the article I wrote, which attempts to answer almost all of those queries. 

One of my friends recently gave me an article about happiness that asked the question, “How happy can we be?” Pretty darn happy if I’m in love, you might say. But according to psychologists, about 50 percent of our happiness is determined by our genes, and amazingly only about 10 percent has to do with our actual circumstances. The other 40 percent has to do with what we do to counteract a seemingly natural tendency for us to stay at or around what we psychologists term our “set point” or “base line.”

In other words people tend to reach a goal, whether it be finding love, getting married, or making more money and feel a surge of happiness for a while, only to soon adapt back down to their “set point.” Continue reading “10 Loving Ways to Add Happiness to your Relationships”

Surround Yourself With Positivity – Part One

“In your day, surround yourself with people who love you, motivate you, encourage you and just make you feel good about being You.”~ Bridgette Nicole

Have you heard or read this saying_>’You become the average of your closest friends’?  Because of the impact your friends have on your success, it is important to analyze whom you are surrounding yourself with. Do your friends uplift you or drag you down? Are they positive or negative? Are they constructive or destructive? Do they encourage or discourage your growth and success? Continue reading “Surround Yourself With Positivity – Part One”

Positivity+Love=Awesome!

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results. ~Willie Nelson

With the year end coming closer than ever, we all find ourselves looking back at  the year gone by with its highs and lows.I know I am thinking it. But, today as I embark on this adventure to create my best year yet, I choose to focus on the positives, the highs of the year gone by and learn from the lows. Continue reading “Positivity+Love=Awesome!”