Study co-author Professor June Gruber, from the department of psychology at Yale University in the United States, said of people who actively tried to be happy: 'When you're doing it with the motivation or expectation that these things ought to make you happy, that can lead to disappointment and decreased happiness.
But what may shift between weight-loss and maintenance phases is a person's mindset: rather than focusing on actively losing weight in the short term, people have to start focusing on long-term, permanent lifestyle changes and behaviors, if they want to maintain the weight that's been lost.
Elsewhere in the house, cat litter, cigarettes, adobe, granite and brick are all actively radiating you.
As major drivers of Apple Pay in China, UnionPay and several major banking institutions actively promoted the service when it first entered China.
"It's about young people feeling connected with their family and that builds self-esteem and sense of worth and that works very actively against someone developing an eating disorder.
Next, they were shown the faces again and told to either actively think of the associated picture or to consciously avoid thinking of it.
We don't marry educated people because we happen to hang around with educated people, for example—we actively seek them out.
In order to navigate through work and responsibilities that seem monotonous, we have to actively pursue and engage in beautiful acts of love and kindness.
"Rather than complaining, it is more meaningful to be positive and to actively integrate yourself back into society," she said.
Instead, many of them strive to actively move forward.
"The distinction is that 'innmark' is cultivated and actively used land such as gardens, fields, parks and roads.
Ms Huston recommends actively seeking evidence that challenges your preferred path of action, to make sure you anticipate problems in advance.
Research suggests that when it comes to choosing a romantic partner, men are actively turned off by intelligence – and can only overcome this massive obstacle if they find the woman particularly attractive.
The study states: 'We find that attractive individuals earn roughly 20 percent more than people of average attractiveness, but this gap is reduced when controlling for grooming, suggesting that the beauty premium can be actively cultivated.
Southwestern China's Chongqing is actively preparing to win a bidding to host the second Disneyland in the Chinese mainland, which Disney eyes in central and western China.
If you've not yet caught wind of the decade-old princess-culture-is-problematic discussion — especially if you're a parent — you must be actively working to avoid it.
" "They came to expect change and actively look for it.
You will get through much more work more quickly if you actively arrange your role so you can focus on what you are good at and, even better, practise getting even better at what you are good it.
With such a belief, we have actively negotiated with other patent holders in the industry for cross-licensing over the years.
Sovereign funds and some large private institutional investors could still learn from the other tactics the Norwegians are using to engage actively with the companies where they have a stake.
