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Gym is Happiness

Today, my back was hurting me, and as a result, I couldn’t think straight, do the things that I wanted to do, and I wasn’t very happy. In fact, my back has been hurting me for a few days already, and I tried many different things to mitigate this hurt, including but not limited to […]

Ask Me Anything About Your Pursuit of Happiness

Hey everyone, thank you for being an avid reader of Optimal Happiness. We are here for you. If you have any questions related to your happiness, unhappiness, well-being, positive, negativity, life questions, curiosities, opinions, or anything like that, we’d love to answer them for you! Feel free to ask me anything in the comments section […]

Why Can’t You Do It? Why Can’t You Have That?

Lately, my life has become quite extraordinary compared to many other people I know—and I mean this in a positive way. My life resembles a fun roller coaster, an adventure full of pleasure and happiness. I have a great job, I speak 8 languages, and I am one of the happiest people in the world. […]

How to Overcome Fear of Rejection & Cultivate Happiness

In sales, there is a high turnover simply because many people can’t deal with a high rate of rejection, which is common in this field. This is perhaps why all sales reps have to build mental fortitude to keep their mental health in check. Otherwise, they can internalize this failure as a personal flaw, which […]

Digital Minimalism: In Favor of Maximizing Life

My former business partner used to have a routine where they would wake up and spend the next 30 minutes to an hour going through hundreds of emails, notifications, and messages, most of which were spam. This essentially wasted hours, days, months, and years of their life—time that could have been better invested in our […]

Beyond Happiness: The Path to Enlightenment and Ascension

Often, I have asked myself what the one thing that everyone is looking for in their life—the highest calling that provides us with the greatest benefit, such as choosing to get 10 USD over 5 USD. Mry answer was “happiness,” as all our decisions and desires in life are guided by the ongoing desire to […]

How to Use Pain to Reach Enlightenment

Not all negative emotions are necessarily bad, and not all positive emotions are necessarily good. For example, cocaine is said to provide very high positive emotions in the moment, but it also exacts a very high negative toll on our body and mind in the long term, making people dependent, erratic, and overall feeling bad. […]

Mental Health for Social Justice Warriors

Despite its recent negative connotation, the term Social Justice Warriors (SJW) was not originally used in a negative and pejorative way. Instead, it was something positive or neutral. Only recently did people start using it in a derogatory way trying to bring down people who are for standing up to something positive and necessary—social change. […]

Always Read Product Reviews If You Want to Be Happy

I’m a big review reading guy, often making complex decisions that can affect my life, well-being, health, and financial well-being purely on what other people have to say about certain products and services.  Specifically, I’m not necessarily reading the comments as it’s enough to look at the stars, as almost exclusively, if something is highly […]

Overcome Imposter Syndrome and Find Happiness

I have imposter syndrome, which is why I decided to write about it so I can once and for all deal with it, as this blog post can be seen as an entry into my happiness journal, as this whole blog is my personal meditation on happiness and the maximization of well-being. Specifically, recently, I […]