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Tag: Happiness

Choices

Sometime in the middle of 2017 a company called SaReGaMa launched a music player, Carvaan, in India. When I heard about the product I was extremely sceptical about it. I mean who would want to buy a comparatively large music player, with pre-recorded songs, in an age when YouTube and other similar sites had brought the music of your choice right to the palm of your hands. Even though Carvaan came with an inbuilt radio and supported USB as well as Bluetooth, I had my doubts about the product’s success.

I was wrong.

Soon, the Carvaan began to show up in various houses I visited, and recently one was gifted to me. I checked it up on the Internet and found out that the product had not only become a success but had also helped revive SaReGaMa’s dwindling fortunes.

How did that happen?

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How to be Truly Happy for Others?

A quote from a popular Hindi movie goes:

“When your friend fails, you feel bad… but you feel worse when your friend comes first.”

A lot of people will agree with this. I know because I do.

To be truly happy for others is something very few people can do. How a person reacts to other people’s success is a true measure of how satisfied a person is with his or her own life. Usually another person’s success has little or no bearing on your life, and you yet you can’t be happy for the person, because that person’s success reminds you of your own failures.

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Three Things You Can Do Today To Be Happier

woman-570883_960_720Most people will agree with me when I say that being happy is simultaneously the easiest thing and the most difficult thing.  While some find happiness in the simplest of things, there are others who are unhappy even when they have almost everything. It’s no surprise, therefore, that the search for happiness is one of man’s oldest quests.

Today’s man is no different. We are always striving to be happier than we were the day before. But, unfortunately we don’t always succeed. In reality, we are mostly less happier than we were the day before because the past is usually remembered with fondness, and the present always seems like a tough time. So, here are three things that I am doing to be happy, and you can try them too.

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