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–By Sagar Satapathy

Greetings! Welcome to the first edition of the Carnival of Life, Happiness & Meaning. We are astonished to receive more than 30 entries for the first edition out of which 26 posts managed to make the cut. Without further ado, here are the posts in the order they were received.

Marcy Nala presents Is Your Life Working For You? posted at The Abundant Life. Our life is either working for us or it is not. Either way, we know. In fact, for most people life is not working. And that’s O.K. The problem is that they don’t do anything about it.

Barbra Sundquist presents Why I’m Happy To Do Something I Dislike posted at WelcomeJoy.com. Barbra Sundquist from WelcomeJoy.com explains why she is happy to do something that she really dislikes - entertaining. So why does she do it? Read her post to find out.

David Richeson presents Make More Money Without Selling Your Soul posted at 360 Degree Success. Have you ever felt like you move from day to day, week to week, paycheck to paycheck– barely getting by, unsure of your current career path, but with too many financial obligations to make any real change in your life? Learn how to make more money and still keep your dreams and your soul intact.

Alan presents Self-Esteem - How to pump it up posted at Made to Be Great. Having a high self esteem is healthy and good for us, it makes us feel great and be cheerful all day long. When we are feeling great we function at our best and attract others who also feel good about themselves and the world.

Shelagh Dillon presents Felicitas Life Coach - My blog posted at Happiness is being present in the present. A comment from www.felicitaslifecoach.com on being happy in the now and creating the future you dream of by making a habit of being happy. This is an extract from my website that is growing daily into a resource for people who are interested in self-development.

Arathi presents Inner Peace posted at Success Step. Inner peace and happiness is a subject that concerns everyone, It concerned the ancients, and it is our concern today as well–to understand how we can be happy.

Joysoriano.com presents A Little Piece of Heaven posted at www.joysoriano.com. A short inspiring article on the little pieces of heaven each one of us can have.

Therapydoc presents Work ! posted at Everyone needs therapy? Lessons from a family therapist. What’s it all about when a young woman goes to work, leaving the kids behind? Counting the bees in the hive, of course.

Alex Shalman presents Seven Questions That Will Change Your Life posted at Self Help. Self reflection should be more than a minor consideration if you’re serious about personal growth.

Paul presents Fear Keeps you from Living a Longer and Happier Life posted at ExtremePerspective. Optimism leads to a longer happier life.

Alvaro Fernandez presents Baby Boomers, Healthy Aging and Job Performance posted at Brain Fitness Blog. With more and more professionals practicing beyond the traditional retirement age-how do we (and they) know when they stop being qualified? more importantly, what can we do to delay that moment?

Caroline presents I am busy executive with a challenging job. How is brain fitness relevant to me? posted at Brain Fitness. How stress management may help us improve our quality of life and performance at work.

Shamelle presents 5 Life Lessons You Can Learn From World Cup Cricket posted at Enhance Life. In a one day cricket match, the fielding side is always in search of wickets. The more wickets that fall, the better change they have of winning. The same principle applies in life. If you keep doing what you have always been doing you will get the same result.

Donald Latumahina presents Self-Check: Are You Doing What Matters to You? posted at Life Optimizer. Builders cling to a personal commitment that’s so compelling to them - something so important to them that they would actually do it for free - that they must do it despite popularity.

Vahid Chaychi presents Health and Happiness Formula posted at Healthoma.com. One thing for everyone to understand is that foundation of happiness is robust health. It’s an open secret most people do not give too much consideration too.

Albert Foong presents How to live consciously and powerfully posted at Urban Monk. What is unconscious living? Unconsciousness is letting our mental and emotional bodies take over. These bodies behave according to previous programming, and we have no conscious control. Get out of this to gain true power.

Paul presents Make 5 cheap ‘greeting cards’ that blow Hallmark away. posted at Wisebread. Learn about how to make cheaper greeting cards yourself.

Brandon Peele presents Spiritual Autolysis posted at GT. Spiritual Autolysis is a process of self-anihilation, as described by Jed McKenna in his book, Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing. Simply, it is an exercise that anyone can do and that everyone should do.

Craig Harper presents Grooming Our Kids for Failure. posted at Motivational Speaker. Back in the dark ages when I was at school my teachers employed this wacky notion of telling us whether or not our school work was great, good, bad or otherwise. They even gave us grades. And when my report cards were bad my folks got mad at me… not the teacher.

Deepak Jeswal presents Life?s Spontaniety posted at Random Expressions. A way of living … my life and my principles…perhaps it might help someone else too!

Mun presents Mun’s Fitness Blog: Over Exercising Can Hurt Your Health posted at Mun’s Fitness Blog. A month ago, I mentioned in the article of Weight Lifting, But Don’t Over Train, The writer talked about how to avoid or minimize over training. Should have talked about its effect on health first instead.

Shaheen Lakhan presents The Mental Health Parity Bill of 2007 posted at GNIF Brain Blogger. It has been a long time coming for mental health to gain equal footing for physical health. If you have ever suffered mental disease or know somebody who has, you know that mental disorders are not simple to treat and can require prolonged periods of expensive therapy.

TheOperative presents 5 Things You Can do to Focus Better and Get Out of a Mental Rut posted at Cigars and Life. A blog post on how to focus better and get out of a mental rut.

Ririan presents See How Easily You Can Overcome Your Worries posted at Ririan Project. Worry is a many-headed beast, like the Hydra - it’s hard to stop it at your first attempt, but if you are persistent and try several different techniques, you can overcome it in the end.

Alfaking presents What do they really want? posted at Alfa King Memories. The world seems to have become very vulnerable. There are no stringent barriers to movement; you can travel any where around the world. But the threat of terrorism and hostage is a real concern; to you, to me? and to all, wherever we are.

PicktheBrain presents The 5 Types of Books that Increase Intelligence posted at Pick the Brain. We read for information, with the hope that information we acquire will improve our minds, giving us the means to improve our lives. In the modern Age of Information, more reading material is available than ever, making it increasingly difficult to allocate our reading time efficiently.

With this, the Carnival of Life, Happiness & Meaning is concluded. Keep submitting your interesting, useful posts to the future editions of this carnival. I thank you all for your support and contribution to this carnival. Whenever you get time, feel free to share it with your readers. They might find this carnival interesting.

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