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What to Do When You Spiral: A Recipe for Emotional Regulation discipline hardcore happiness kindness mental health mindset Apr 03, 2026

You start out with the best of intentions: get up, do some exercise, make breakfast, get on with your day. You know how good it will feel when you check all those things off your to-do list and can ju...

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Protect Your Peace: A Specific Case of Mindfulness action discipline hardcore happiness mindfulness peace Mar 27, 2026

What does it mean to protect your peace?

It’s not all about sitting in the lotus position, channeling your bliss.
The path frequently entails sacrifice and loss, and it always requires awareness. What y...

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Who Cares What They Think? happiness hardcore happiness mental health mindfulness peace Feb 28, 2026

What other people think about you is none of your business.

We spend a tremendous amount of time thinking about what other people are thinking—about us.

When It Matters

Okay—only bona fide sociopat...

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Live on Purpose empty nest existential happiness hardcore happiness hope joy mindset purpose retirement Sep 26, 2025

The lack of meaning in life is a soul-sickness whose full extent and import our age has not yet begun to comprehend.Ā - C.G. Jung

Ask people to list the most important things in life, and you will typic...

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First Flight family flight freedom gratitude hardcore happiness Sep 12, 2025

We have realized the dream for three generations, now.

It was first made possible by the war, when his maternal grandfather trained in the then-ubiquitous Stearman bi-plane and later flew both the B-17...

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Hardcore Happiness: Revisited gratitude hardcore happiness mental health mindset purpose Aug 04, 2025

NOTE: This article is longer than my usual Mindset Monday posts, but there are a lot of new people coming to the Hardcore Happiness community, and I just (August, 2025, as I write this) launched a Har...

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