Mindfulness is more than just an ambiguous, buzz-word philosophy. Thinking about the past, the future, the to-do list in your day planner, the kids’ schedules - anything except what you are currently engaged in doing - has been scientifically proven to make you less happy. When Matt Killingsworth was a doctoral student at Harvard, he devised a software program to measure how happy people are when they allow their thoughts to wander away from whatever was happening to them at the present time. He found that, even if people were daydreaming about something pleasant, they were less happy than if they paid attention to whatever they were supposed to be engaged in. Read the entire article here: The Science of How Your Mind-Wandering Is Robbing You of Happiness