Just the other day I wrote about how giving up control might be good for your happiness (HERE). Well, today I'm happy to share with you an interesting article that suggests ambition may not be all it's cracked up to be either! In Men's Health News...
Do you want to know how happiness is related to what you wear? Or whether or not you pull out and put up your umbrella? Then keep reading because today's blog is based on a nice, simple metaphor that could have profound effects not just...
By Kristin van Ogtrop from Time Healthland On my last birthday one of my sons wrote a poem for me, using the letters of my first name to start each line. It was sweet, sort of. It began, “K: kind of a control freak.” When I...
Happiness is difficult to define and even harder to measure. We experience it as a combination of elements, in the same way that one wheel or spring inside a watch doesn't keep time — it is a result of the synchronicity of the whole. As...
A famous quote was once recorded noting that those who say you can't buy happiness are not shopping in the right places! Well, this was meant as a joke BUT as with most jokes, there's an element of truth to it. Happiness typically comes from what we...
Within The Happiness Institute we have a very important division that for various reasons I don't talk about a lot here on this blog. But this division makes up a big part of what we do and it addresses a bit part of most people's...
I've always believed that life should be about more than just one thing. I'm not necessarily suggesting something like the concept of "balance", because balance to me sounds near impossible and potentially boring! But I am suggesting that, as the old saying goes, we need...
Chris Peterson, one of the founders and leading lights in the positive psychology or science of happiness movement was once famously quoted as saying that in short, when it comes to happiness...
One of the leading thinkers in positive psychology, Jonathan Haidt, recently published a fascinating article in The Times which discusses experimental psychology, taxes, politics and marbles but which ultimately, for those who take the time to read and consider it, is relevant to all of...
I recently stumbled upon this article from one of my favourite sites, Zen Habits, and thought it would be useful of all our friends of The Happiness Institute in so many ways. But let me let you be the judge of that; check it out...
