Happiness Happens: Thirty-One Shades of Love
Love is a timeless enigma that we instinctively seek, yet, simultaneously fear. We know that we need love to be happy, but we also know that love makes our happiness vulnerable. Our vulnerability allows fear to mask itself as a protector of hurt and...
New Blog: Ask Pamela Gail
When you found a group like the Secret Society of Happy People naturally people ask questions about their happiness challenges. Many questions have similar components. Even happy people sometimes want another persons objective opinion about something going on...
Hunt for Happiness Week: happy
Today we're sharing a guest post, which is an expert from happy by our friends at Lonely Planet. This is our last Hunt for Happiness Week post that got delayed due to a technicality. After all when we hunt for happiness sometimes we find it when we get outside...
Hunt for Happiness: Are You Happier Than You Admit You Are?
Today's the last day of the 12th Annual Hunt for Happiness Week. Due to a technicality our Friday post had to be postponed but it will be posted next week with the opportunity to win two prizes. Today's prize is a drawing for a Happiness Happens T-shirt for everyone...
Hunt for Happiness Week: Live Your Passion with @GaryVee
Often one our challenges in our hunt for happiness is finding the courage to live our passion. Gary Vaynerchuk a businessman from practically birth who's also a bestselling author, speaker, entrepreneur inspirer, self-trained wine and social media expert is sharing a...
Hunt for Happiness Week: Stress-Manage Your Way To Happiness
Elizabeth Scott, author of the about to be released 8 Keys to Stress Management and About.com's Stress Management writer is today's guest blogger. She's kindly giving away a copy of 8 Keys to Stress Management when it's released in March so if you'd like one make a...
Hunt for Happiness Week: Delivering Happiness Guest Blog
I'm happy to share a Hunt for Happiness Week guest post from our friends at Delivering Happiness by Lindsay Brunner, Creativity Curator. And just like yesterday's post, if you make a comment you'll be entered into a drawing for two VHP ~ Very...
Hunt for Happiness Week: Co-Existing with Parade-Rainers
Happy people often encounter parade-rainers -- those people who find happy people annoying. They are everywhere and can make staying happy a challenge for even the happiest person. Unfortunately, they aren't interested in increasing their happiness by...
Hunt for Happiness Week: January 20 – 26, 2013
When the Secret Society of Happy People originally hosted our first Happiness Happens Day on August 8th we had several teachers contact us saying, "Kids need happiness too and we aren't in school in August." We listened and started Hunt for Happiness Week the 3rd week...
365 Moments of Happiness
One of my favorite yearly traditions is to participate in the Society's Happiness Challenge ~ writing down my happiest moment of the day. Personally, I like to hand write them in a journal before I go to sleep. At the end of the year, I get to have a quick...
The Happiest Events and Moments of 2012
The Secret Society of Happy People is happy to announce the Happiest Events and Moments of 2012: 5. Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel became the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy. 4. Gabby Douglas’s talent and smile captured our hearts when she...
The Secret Society of Happy People Wishes You a Very Merry Christmas!!!
A Blue Christmas
Christmas is the pinnacle of happiness for many, yet others experience a blue Christmas. For some it's because they don't have a picturesque family to share the holidays with. Others may have had a year of relationship, financial or health challenges. Sometimes...
What Makes Us Happiest About the Holidays?
The Secret Society of Happy People is happy to report the results to our poll What Makes Us Happiest About the Holidays: Seeing Friends & Family: 69.5% Festive Atmosphere: 58.2% Giving Presents: 55.4% Holiday Music, Movies & Theater: 43.8% Religious Meanings...
When Unhappiness Strikes
Sometimes something so horrific happens that all we can do is allow our tears to fall and our prayers to be heard in an attempt to comfort those who have been directly impacted by the unfathomable. Our hearts hurt for those impacted today at Sandy Hook Elementary...
The Happy Chaos of Holiday Giving
Why do we make our list, check it twice, dive into the shopping and wrapping party with a sometimes tortured grin? Simply put, giving makes us happy. While we may complain about the chaos that surrounds giving the reality is there's no better feeling than giving...
Living a Wonderful Life
Did you watch It's a Wonderful Life this past weekend? Usually, I just tune in and out of it since I'm familiar with the story line, but for some reason this year my intuition compelled me to watch it from start to finish. Apparently, I needed a reminder of the...
Tips to Send Happier Holiday Greetings
It’s been 14 years since advice columnist Ann Landers agreed with a reader that people shouldn’t send happy holiday newsletters in their greeting cards. At the time the Society had about 30 members nationally but a few called to say that Ann was raining on...
Thanksgiving Nostalgia
When I was about nine my mother got put in the hospital the day before Thanksgiving. My dad was left to host the celebration with my younger brother and me. Of course, my mom wanted us to have the turkey dinner she had planned. Instead my dad cooked chicken...
Happily Co-Existing with Holiday Chaos
Who can believe Thanksgiving is next week? Wow. And while it kicks-off the month of festivities, it also kicks off a month of busyness and chaos that creates stress and reduces happiness for many. I wish I could tell you there's a magical Christmas something...
Thankful for Our Veterans
If you know a vet, thank them. If you don't, please say a prayer for the many who have honorably served. A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. ~ Charles W. Pickering
Did You Know There are 31 Types of Happiness?
It's true that all happiness isn't created equal. But happiness is still happiness when it happens. When I founded the Secret Society of Happy People I was working in the self-help field. While the field helps people find happiness, there's more chit-chat about the...
The Happiness of Thankfulness
Every November, I challenge you to have a month of being thankful and feeling grateful. Why is being thankful so important? According to gratitude expert Sarah Ban Breathnach, "You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks...
The Happiness of Time … Set Your Clocks Back
Scare Away the Post-Halloween Blues
For many people celebrating Halloween is as important as celebrating Christmas is for others. Halloween has become the 2nd largest holiday, only after Christmas, according to the National Retail Federation. Americans spend over $8 billion to celebrate...
Happy Halloween
Did you dress up today? Are you simply amused by the other costumes? Will you trick-or-treat tonight? Whatever you do enjoy!
Secret Society of Happy People Holiday Recipes
One of the Society's traditions has been creating a holiday recipe book. If you'd like to contribute one your favorite holiday recipes, you'll receive a free copy of the recipe book. If you'd like to contribute a recipe please have it to me by Friday, November 2 -...
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian not-so-secretly happy members. It's a great reminder that we should all count our blessings everyday!!!
Celebrating the Harvest Moon
Tonight's the Harvest Moon. Make and wish and enjoy, Pamela Gail Johnson
The Happiness of Knowledge
This past weekend I ventured out of Dallas to attend Social Boom, a social media conference hosted by Kim Garst, in Tampa. For much of the time, my head was spinning with all of the "new" ~ new information, new people, new apps, and new social media to do's. Oh, and...
