March 2011

Yesterday I posted a few thoughts reflecting my experiences teaching positive psychology and the happiness lessons I learned talking about happiness! Today, Day 2 of the 3 day course, I learned (or was reminded of) a few more important lessons...

31 March, 2011

A few times each year I teach a 3-day course in "Positive Psychology Coaching". The nature of the course means that the attendees (approximately 35-40 people each time) are usually very experienced, very knowledgeable and highly intelligent and capable people! As a facilitator/teacher this is challenging...

30 March, 2011

by Joe Wilner from PsychCentral In the past I tended to be a naturally serious person. I was pretty rigid and wanted things done a certain way. I found people who were always joking and playing to be unauthentic and foolish. I thought to myself naively,...

29 March, 2011

from The Telegraph Traditional wisdom states that our younger years are the best of our lives, with the milestone of 40 meaning we are "over the hill" and already on the wane. But in fact satisfaction and optimism steadily increase after middle age, easily eclipsing the earlier...

28 March, 2011

As regular readers of this eNewsletter, or of our other works, would well be aware we espouse, here at The Happiness Institute, a simple approach to achieving happiness in your life. In short, we believe that happiness is something you “choose” with choose being both...

27 March, 2011

So many books to read on happiness and positive psychology; so little time to read them; and so few worth making the time to read. But this one is worth making time for! For those of you who’re well read in the positive psychology domain, and for...

27 March, 2011

One of my favourite psychology studies investigated the difference between the top few tennis players in the world and the next 90 or so (who were still very good tennis players).  Although not directly relevant to happiness I think there are many ways to find useful...

26 March, 2011

I'm super busy at the moment and my work, currently, involves quite a bit of travel. This is not a bad thing, because I'm loving the work I'm doing but when it comes to my personal happiness, much of it is dependent on certain routines...

25 March, 2011

Along with millions of other people around the world I recently watched this amazing You Tube video - CHECK IT OUT HERE Now althogh this does not, directly, have anything to do with happiness or positive psychology I couldn't help but watch it and think...

24 March, 2011