http://ourdevelopment.org Moving Towards Happiness Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:08:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The lifesave water bottle is a very cool invention by Micheal Pritchard that looks like it has a lot of potential for helping those living in poverty without access to safe drinking water. The filter has much smaller pores than most filters (15 nano metres), this allows it to filter ... http://ourdevelopment.org/awesome-water-filter/ Does being defensive help us? Or does it make us less open to change. When someone suggests that we change our behavior it seems to be human nature to rattle off all of the reasons why we shouldn't change and to try and convince the other that our current way of doing ... http://ourdevelopment.org/youre-being-too-defensive/ In my previous post on Value Based Happiness I talked about how identifying your values and living in accordance with them can provide a deeper sort of happiness by giving us a sense of meaning and purpose. So let's take a look at what is meant by the term values ... http://ourdevelopment.org/finding-your-core-values/ The concept of happiness can be divided into two types "feeling based" and "value based". Here I will show you the distinction between the two and how focussing more on value based happiness can improve your life. Feeling Based Happiness Feeling based happiness is to do with the senses and is often known ... http://ourdevelopment.org/value-based-happiness/ Previously I was maintaining (barely) this site and ourdevelopment.net. After some a few silly mistakes and a lack of backups I'm left with only the google cache if I want to get my content back. With this as the impetus I've decided it's time for a fresh start. I will ... http://ourdevelopment.org/a-fresh-start/ Mwangi over at The Displaced African recently had a question and answer session. So I took that opportunity to ask the question “In your opinion, what is the best thing we can do to help prevent poverty in the world?”. A tough question to answer but his thoughts were very interesting. My attempt ... http://ourdevelopment.org/2008the-displaced-african-on-ending-poverty/