The past two years, the men of thehappycorp have participated in Bearduary, the two-month beard celebration. We’ll be at it again this January.

Friends,

This Friday, October 3rd, from 6:30-8:30, we are hosting our first ever animated gif competition happyhour. To enter all you have to do is email your favorite animated gif to yourfriend@thehappycorp.com. Then, come enjoy $1 Dewar’s, happyhour style, and vote on the best of the best while rubbing shoulders with our growing network of amazingly creative friends at White Rabbit. The winner gets to go

Is the world cruel or kind? Filled with pain or joy? Is it hostile or friendly? Brutal or gentle? Is it filled with misery or hope? Which is it? It’s all those things.

Our existence contains all perspectives and evaluations. Expanding your perspective isn’t about becoming blind to the cruelty, or looking for only good, it’s choosing a perspective that is mostly likely to help you create the life you want, one that encourages happiness

Thehappycorp believes in the American brand. We have the entrepreneurial spirit. To so many, American means anything is possible. To others America=War, or Gun, or Bomb.  I hope that as we get closer to the election that this country can look itself in the mirror, and see itself for what it has become.  We hope that it gets a makeover, sees a nutritionist, and starts a workout routine.  We are a

Human beings are the most amazing things in the world. Be kind to them. Even the ones you don’t know. Even the ones you think you’ll never see again.

That does not mean you have to always be sweet or nice. It means you should always do human beings the courtesy of treating them as authentic, living, breathing creatures who have as much right to occupy space on this

A little package came the other day with a book inside: 100 Poems to Lift Your Spirits from Grand Central Publishing, Ed. Leslie Pockell.

The book is divided into four groupings of poems: Nature, Nonsense, Spiritual and The Human Connection. The poems in each group reflect on one of those topics: Keats’ “To Autumn” is in Nature; Kipling’s “The Thousandth Man” gets filed under The Human Connection, etc

If you think that good design might help you stick to your New Year’s resolution, check out Startaresolution.com.

The site is designed to help you stick to your goals by assigning everyone who joins a coach.

Each of the multi-colored circles represents someone’s resolution. When you sign up and add your own resolution, the person who created the circle to the