May 2014

Introduced by Dr. Happy I'm super-busy at the moment.  I'm delivering conference keynotes all over the country; I have a new book coming out: here at The Happiness Institute we're developing and delivering several new programs in collaboration with some great organisations and people.  I love being super-busy;...

by Jeremy Adam Smith from the Greater Good I’m terrible at gratitude. How bad am I? I’m so bad at gratitude that most days, I don’t notice the sunlight on the leaves of the Berkeley oaks as I ride my bike down the street. I forget to...

from Life Hack  Every once in a while, when I need little reminder of what I’m capable of achieving, I like to find a good quote to bring my spirits up. Here I’ve collected 30 motivational quotes which will remind you to believe in yourself, even when...

by Melanie Greenberg  In the past few years, there has been an explosion in books and courses about happiness. Brain science has progressed more in the past decade than the previous hundred years, allowing us to understand the biological bases of human emotion.  Research in positive...

by Marc Chernoff The unhappiest people in this world are the people who care the most about what everyone else thinks. “What’s wrong with wanting to please others?” That’s what several people asked me via email in response to one of my recent articles.  Today, I want to discuss...

by Katherine Roseburg from Tiny Buddha “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh The past few years have been full of hard but necessary lessons I needed to learn about my...