February 2008

Following on from my previous posting I'd like to draw your attention to a few related articles that also, indirectly, touch on the important issue of happiness and raising children. The extent to which praise leads to happiness and self-esteem is not as simple as...

29 February, 2008

As many of you would no doubt know, one of my passions is to enhance happiness in children and families...

29 February, 2008

I was lucky enough to spend some one-on-one time with Marty Seligman a few weeks ago and enjoyed hearing that what we're doing here at The Happiness Institute is pretty much cutting-edge. The article below refers to his happiness at work presentations so if...

29 February, 2008

If you ever needed evidence to support the notion that happiness is adapting to the times and being flexible, then this story of a Buddhist monk using rap music to spread peace and happiness should provide adequate support. To read about the Buddhist happiness rapper...

29 February, 2008

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. - Peter F. Drucker, 1909-2005, Austrian-born Management Consultant and Author And my happiness version...

28 February, 2008

By Jean Chatzky TODAY Financial Editor Did you ever wonder what, exactly, goes into your personal happiness? Is it your health, your reflection in the mirror, your network of friends? According to Sonja Lyubomirsky, a professor of psychology at the University of California Riverside and author of...

28 February, 2008

The headmaster of Wellington College, a prestigious Berkshire public school, has made the case for a more holistic approach to teaching school children that incorporates learning how to "live and be happy". Writing in the Guardian, Anthony Seldon argues that pushing children to achieve good academic...

28 February, 2008

As many of you are no doubt aware, I've recently started writing a regular, national happiness and positive psychology column for the health and wellbeing liftout of the nationally distributed "Body + Soul". As some of you might not get the Sunday papers I...

26 February, 2008

IT IS NO WONDER life coaching is one of the hottest trends for people wanting to get the most out their lives, organizations and communities. The word "coach" in "life coach" comes from the sports coach who challenges the athlete to go for gold by...

26 February, 2008

Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus offered his take on happiness eons ago. He said sagely, "Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking". Happiness. Who says you can't find it? What do you want? A...

25 February, 2008