April 2010

Thoughts on Happiness By Lionel Ketchian (www.happinessclub.com) Happiness leaves clues. Let's explore them.  The decision to be happy is most important. Unless you give happiness a try, you will never know how happiness feels or how great it works. Gratitude is essential to the experience...

15 April, 2010

by Marshall Goldsmith for BusinessWeek If you want to acquire a sense of meaning and happiness, enlist a friend to assist you on a regular basis. All it takes is one phone call a day In my work, the most frequent question I hear is:...

14 April, 2010

If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got; so if you're not as happy as you'd like to be then for more happiness, you might need to consider doing something different. Even if you already have...

13 April, 2010

At the end of last year (2009) a fascinating study was published in The Journal of Positive Psychology; in this paper a number of researchers from Belgium and the UK explored what they called _ã–mental time travel_㝠and the effects of daily practice. In simple terms,...

12 April, 2010

By Richard Wisement (from www.telegraph.co.uk) A decade ago, I set out to investigate luck. I wanted to examine the impact on people's lives of chance opportunities, lucky breaks and being in the right place at the right time. After many experiments, I believe that I now...

12 April, 2010

by John Grohol from PsychCentral Yes, I know. There are dozens of books written about how to increase your happiness, probably hundreds of different blogs all promising you the secrets to the keys of happiness, and thousands of articles written on this topic. Since the positive...

11 April, 2010

This article from Psychology Today sums up some really fascinating research! Did you know that genuine smiles predict happy and satisfied marriages? Can you believe that genuine smiles predict living a longer life? Happiness, and it's reflection in real, genuine smiles, is highly correlated with...

09 April, 2010

by C. Clinton Sidle In an editorial in the New York Times last week David Brooks argued that most of us pay attention to the wrong things when it comes to happiness and success. We want to believe that success and material gain bring happiness, but...

08 April, 2010

For several decades now, the World Database of Happiness has tracked how happy people are around the world by asking them to rate their happiness on the following scale: not at all happy not very happy ...

08 April, 2010