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Old Mar 05, 2008, 04:04 PM
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Perna Perna is offline
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Sweet, aim "lower" on the happiness needs.

Reading a good book makes me happy. So, all I have to do is go to the library or look around at Amazon or have someone recommend something, etc. I also like looking for good books in bookstores (even if I don't buy anything) and I like shopping in office supply stores.

Sometimes, just messing around on the Web can make me content. I have a couple blogs and belong to a couple sites and own a couple sites I work on now and then, etc. I have taken courses online and do a lot of research into what interests me.

I use to like to create different little problems for myself when I was in therapy; if I had trouble looking at my T, for example, I would set myself the task of greeting all the clerks in stores I went to (mostly grocery :-) and saying something about the weather or other topic of conversation ("When do you get off work, have you much longer to work"? is a good one) and just practice looking at and greeting semi-strangers like that. Pick some little thing that is hard for you or that you'd like to try but are afraid to and a way to practice approaching it.
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