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via Inc.com by Jeff Haden One way to be a lot happier is to adopt some new habits, some new outlooks...
via Inc.com by Jeff Haden One way to be a lot happier is to adopt some new habits, some new outlooks...
via the Huffington Post by Suzy Strutner We have a tendency to create happiness goals for ourselves in the context of the future: Once some event takes place, we will be happy. But really, happiness should be on today’s to-do list. Here are some easy mental shifts you can...
via the Huffington Post by Elle Kaplan When we think about creating sweeping change in our lives, it often seems like a distant dream. When life gets in the way, it’s easy to think it’s “too late,” or that we won’t be able to restart because...
The science of happiness is more technically known as “Positive Psychology” and when asked to sum up the key lessons of Positive Psychology Chris Peterson, one of its most influential founders said, quite simply, that “other people matter”! In saying this, Professor Peterson was (quite subtly)...
via Medium by Alex Mathers 11 Powerful Ways to Motivate Yourself Right Now Ah, feeling motivated. It seems to come and it go. It ebbs and flows. I’m a firm believer in the idea that motivation is not something that burns in the lucky few of us. Motivation is...
via Elite Daily by Alexandra Mullane Around this time of year, the winter doldrums come into play. Many people (including myself) struggle to get out of bed because of the cold. Netflix has just released an awesome November lineup for movies, and with holiday movies showing up...
via Inc.com by Marcel Schwantes This research has left me levitating with excitement. I'm dumbfounded by what positive psychology can do. But this is taking it to a whole new level. What Marcel, tell us! OK, here's the scoop. Shawn Achor, Harvard-trained happiness researcher and New York...
Could 60 million acts of kindness change the world? by Heidi Stevens via the Chicago Tribune Here's my hope for the next four years — one of my hopes, anyway. That we take the proverbial pendulum — the one that swings this way or that way every time...
via the Guardian by Dan Ariely Given that motivation is so central to our lives, what do we really know about it? What do we truly understand about how it operates and about its role in our lives? The assumption is that it’s driven by a...