In Search of Happiness

By Cindy Moy, founder of Hot Flash Sisters

Today is International Day of Happiness, a celebration created by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 2012. The UN sought educate people on the importance of happiness and how to find more happiness in life.

Turns out that material wealth is not the key. The answer lies in creating better relationships with other people and taking better care of our physical, mental and emotional health.

Today there is an Action for Happiness pledge: "I will try to create more happiness in the world around me.”

You can even sign up to receive a Happiness Guidebook to get tips on how to find more happiness in life, such as doing three extra acts of kindness or reaching out to someone who’s struggling.

They also suggest paying more attention to the good things around you every day, whether big or small, and taking a moment each day to stop, pay attention and be in the moment.

My favorite suggestion: Smile every time you walk into a room and notice the reaction you get. You’ll lift the entire mood of the room and in turn you’ll become happier as well.

We in the Hot Flash Sisterhood have much to celebrate—we have each other to turn to and lean on for love and support.

That certainly brings me much happiness and makes me smile. Much love, Cindy

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Do Selfies = Self-Worth?

By Cindy Moy, Founder of Hot Flash Sisters

The average girl spends almost 90 minutes a week trying to take the perfect selfie. That's 78 hours a year--trying to capture the perfect coy facade to present to the world via social media.

Imagine spending nearly two workweeks taking selfies, all to garner 'Likes' to bolster your self-esteem.

Two weeks trying to present your best possible self to world. And for what? Because their self-worth is based on the attention they get from those photos.

Today is No Selfie Day.

Let's imagine a world where girls spend those 78 hours a year doing other things: science experiments, sports, studying, painting, learning a language, playing music, reading, dancing, visiting their grandparents, even photographing something other than themselves.

Let's make it a No Selfie Week. Maybe even a No Selfie Month.

Imagine...

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What would you call your memoir?

By Cindy Moy, founder of Hot Flash Sisters

My friend Char is a couple of decades older than me and has faced hurdles in life that would have sent me crawling under the covers and refusing to come out. She jokes that if she ever writes her memoir she’s going to call it Life: You Can’t Make This Sh** Up.

As another birthday approaches and I head to New York City to celebrate with co-birthday girl (and Hot Flash Sisters blogger) Katrina Woznicki, I think about what I would call my memoir if I ever write one.

My friend, Sue, and I often commiserate over tales of crazy relatives. She says she would call her memoir, Please, God, Tell Me We’re Not Related.

The Sis narrowed it down to either Home Perms, Aunt Flo, and Other Lies My Mother Told Me or My Search for the Perfect Body, Career, Husband and Shoes. But Mainly Shoes.

My friend Whitney opted for What’s the Point? A Rambling Look Inside a Yoga Addict’s Mind, but she’s since abandoned yoga for powerlifting so we may have to make some changes. Maybe What's My PR? Personally I prefer Sorry I Got Chalk on You Again, Cindy.

If I ever write my autobiography I’m going to call it Middle-Age: A Second—Better-Funded—Adolescence. It's a thinly disguised version of what I'm usually thinking, which is 'I Don't Give A F*** Anymore. Let's Go Have Some Fun.'

Whatever the title I’ve often thought the great poet Jimmy Buffet summed it up best when he sang, ‘Some of it’s magic, some it’s tragic, But I had a good life all the way.’

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