May 2020

This is exactly how overthinking is damaging your well-being

via the Ladders by Melissa Chu Imagine that it’s close to bedtime. You’ve finished a long day of work, ate dinner, and watched TV. You get into bed and relax by doing some reading. After a while, you realize it’s getting late and decide to call it a...

29 May, 2020

What If You Pursued Contentment Rather Than Happiness?

via Greater Good Magazine by Daniel Cordaro It was 2014, and my research team—including the GGSC’s Dacher Keltner—was studying a remote group of former nomads high in the Himalayas of Eastern Bhutan. This was a place that no outsider had ever traveled to before, and we were...

29 May, 2020

You Shouldn’t Have To Sacrifice Your Mental Health To Achieve Your Goals

via Forbes by Brianna Wiest When it comes to ambition, it’s easy to allow big visions to eclipse our needs. In fact, burnout is reaching epidemic levels in our workforce. In 2019, some studies estimated that over two-thirds of employees experienced symptoms. Unrealistic demands and a lack of healthy work-life...

28 May, 2020

Jeff Bezos Says 10 Choices Lead to a Life Without Regrets

No one will ever live a "perfect" life. No one will ever be happy all the time. We all make mistakes and we all feel bad at times. But happiness (and success) is making more good decisions than bad; feel positive emotions more than negative...

27 May, 2020

Travel And Exploration Spark Happiness, Study Suggests

There's not much we can do now, given current restrictions and limitations. But we can start to dream and maybe even plan...

26 May, 2020

Understanding the Links Between Personality and Happiness

via Psychology Today by Luke Smilie Scholars have long asserted that well-being is the ultimate end-goal of virtually every human endeavour. If this is even partly true, then identifying the factors that influence well-being is an important mission for psychological science. And one factor that seems to...

25 May, 2020

Highly resilient people do these 6 things

Happiness isn't always easy. Happiness, therefore, requires resilience. Those wanting happiness could benefit from doing what these resilient people do...

22 May, 2020

10 Exercises That Will Help You Develop the Mental Strength You Need to Crush Your Goals

via Inc by Amy Morin If you want to lift heavier objects, you need more physical strength. Large biceps and a strong back will go a long way toward helping you do the heavy lifting. Well, the same can be said for your mental muscles. If you want...

22 May, 2020

How to Find and Practice Courage

Achieving happiness requires little more than practising a few simple disciplines, each and every day. That's been my motto for several decades now. Except what is missing from this motto is the recognition that practising positive disciplines isn't always easy. Happiness isn't just feeling good...

21 May, 2020

5 Ways to Give—and Feel Happier—During This Pandemic

via Psychology Today by Catherine Sanderson On the morning of December 26, 2004, Petra Němcová, a model from the Czech Republic, and her boyfriend, Simon Atlee, a British photographer, were vacationing at a resort on the coast of Thailand when an earthquake triggered a tsunami in...

20 May, 2020