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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">CC</journal-id>
<journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Cardiol Croat</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Cardiologia Croatica</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">Cardiol. Croat.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="ppub">1848-543X</issn>
<issn pub-type="epub">1848-5448</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Croatian Cardiac Society</publisher-name></publisher>
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<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">CC 2021 16_11-12_375</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15836/ccar2021.375</article-id>
<article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Education</subject></subj-group>
<subj-group subj-group-type="subheading"><subject>Extended Abstract</subject></subj-group>
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<article-title>How can you boost your happiness and find inner contentment and peace?</article-title>
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<trans-title>Kako pove&#x0107;ati osje&#x0107;aj sre&#x0107;e i na&#x0107;i unutarnje zadovoljstvo i mir?</trans-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name><surname>Bla&#x017E;ini&#x0107;</surname><given-names>Boris</given-names></name><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">*</xref></contrib>
<aff id="aff1">Centar za razvoj osobnosti, Zagreb, Hrvatska</aff>
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<corresp id="cor1"><label>*</label>Address for correspondence: Boris Bla&#x017E;ini&#x0107;, Centar za razvoj osobnosti,3 trnjanske ledine 4c, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia. / Phone: +385-1-611-0274 / E-mail: <email xlink:href="info@softskills.hr">info@softskills.hr</email></corresp></author-notes>
<pub-date pub-type="epub-ppub"><month>10</month><year>2021</year></pub-date>
<volume>16</volume>
<issue>11-12</issue>
<fpage>375</fpage>
<lpage>375</lpage>
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<date date-type="received"><day>07</day><month>09</month><year>2021</year></date>
<date date-type="accepted"><day>14</day><month>09</month><year>2021</year></date>
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<copyright-year>2021</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>Croatian Cardiac Society</copyright-holder>
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<kwd-group kwd-group-type="translator" xml:lang="hr"><kwd>KLJU&#x010C;NE RIJE&#x010C;I: sre&#x0107;a</kwd><kwd>zadovoljstvo</kwd><kwd>mir</kwd></kwd-group>
<kwd-group kwd-group-type="author"><title>KEYWORDS: </title><kwd>happiness</kwd><kwd>contentment</kwd><kwd>peace</kwd></kwd-group>
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<p>How can we increase our gratitude and happiness? How can you avoid disappointing yourself and others? How often have you been let down by someone or something? How many times have you become frustrated, angry, or sad as a result of it? It is critical to understand how to manage your expectations in order to avoid it, and it refers to the conscious strategies, techniques, and approaches they use to effectively direct their activities and behaviors. One of the most valuable skills you can have is the ability to self-manage and take personal responsibility for your own future. You should be able to set and strive for realistic goals. When we realize that our expectations are nothing more than our best guesses carved in theory. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="r1"><italic>1</italic></xref>) These best guesses are, at their core, our deeply ingrained beliefs mixed with a glimmer of hope.</p>
<p>The purpose of the lecture is to raise awareness of unconscious strategies and mental patterns that can lead to disappointment and disrupt relationships with ourselves and others. The goal of the lecture is to adopt strategies to increase our freedom of choice and to choose strategies to help us manage our own and other people&#x2019;s expectations.</p>
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<title>LITERATURE</title>
<ref id="r1"><label>1</label><mixed-citation publication-type="web">ScienceDaily. Mathematical equation to predict happiness: Doesn&#x2019;t depend on how well things go, but on whether things are better than expected. Available at: <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140804151413.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140804151413.htm</ext-link> (September 1, 2021).</mixed-citation></ref>
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