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Altruism is consistently listed as one of the Big Top Three on lists of how to increase happiness (from a survey in USA Today and The New York Times.)<\/p>\n
Ask yourself:<\/strong><\/p>\n What loving act can I do for others I care about? What generous deed can I perform for those in greater need?<\/p>\n When you step outside yourself and think about others, you will happily find that you wind up removing yourself from your dark mood in the process.<\/p>\n Interestingly, \u201cintimacy\u201d and \u201cself-esteem\u201d are the other two contributing factors in the Big Top Three list of good mood energizers.<\/p>\n My belief? When you\u2019re altruistic you\u2019re:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1) increasing your connection with others So no wonder you\u2019re feeling happier! When you\u2019re altruistic, you\u2019re cashing in on all three Big Top Three.<\/p>\n So go out there, and do something noble. You\u2019ll literally be happy you did.<\/p>\n For more happiness tips, check out my best selling book HOW TO BE HAPPY DAMMIT by clicking this line right here!<\/a><\/p>\n <\/b> del.icio.us<\/span><\/a> · Slashdot<\/span><\/a> · Digg<\/span><\/a> · Facebook<\/span><\/a> · Technorati<\/span><\/a> · Google<\/span><\/a> · StumbleUpon<\/span><\/a> · Yahoo<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Altruism is consistently listed as one of the Big Top Three on lists of how to increase happiness (from a survey in USA Today and The New York Times.) Ask yourself: What loving act can I do for others I care about? What generous deed can I perform for those in greater need? When you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2) raising your self esteem<\/p>\n