January 2010

Check out this interesting article from The Huffington Post Hurray, it's a new year and a new decade! At least symbolically this change is a great relief, for 2009 was a year that seems to have left its mark on many people still trying to come...

12 January, 2010

With apologies to Jay-Z, the current Empire State of Mind might not be something to brag about_ã”at least according to the recent study ranking New York as the least-happy state in the nation. In the nation! Which seems, to us, rather unbelievable. Yes, nearly half...

11 January, 2010

It's still early days in 2010 and we're assuming many of you are still on leave and enjoying a good break. If you are, that's fantastic, we hope you're full of happiness and enthusiasm for whatever it is you're doing. We'll be gearing up soon...

11 January, 2010

When it comes to happiness, women have a common resistance: Happiness is selfish, they say. But our refusal to be happy doesn't make us compassionate. Our refusal to be happy just makes us mean. My maternal grandmother was one of those people who made a conscious...

10 January, 2010

The old adage "'Tis better to give than to receive" now has science to back it up. Indeed, from giving gratitude to giving to those in need (whether that be your time or money), studies show that many people report better health and better states...

09 January, 2010

Positive psychology is concerned with what makes like worth living, and since its beginning, positive psychologists have done a good job of moving under their umbrella more and more relevant concepts. Passion is one of the recent notions claimed by positive psychology, and my purpose...

08 January, 2010

Over the last decade, it has become common to complain that governments, particularly in the west, have been too narrowly focused on the pursuit of rising GDP at the expense of other social goods. People have looked wistfully to Bhutan, where, since 1972, official government...

07 January, 2010

They say children bring about laughter, and a new study published by the Journal of Happiness Studies in October confirms this by suggesting that having children does indeed boost happiness for married couples. The findings also show that unmarried couples shouldn_ã_t expect this same happiness through...

06 January, 2010

From Jon Gordon (www.jongordon.com) 20 Tips for a Happy and Positive New Year 1. Stay Positive. You can listen to the cynics and doubters and believe that success is impossible or you can know that with faith and an optimistic attitude all things are possible....

05 January, 2010