October 2021

5 Ways to use empathy and emotion to be more successful

via Fast Company by Cassandra Worthy Cassandra Worthy is a chemical engineer, recovering alcoholic, and Fortune 100 executive turned full-time entrepreneur. In her new book, she discusses how a growth mindset will help you take charge of how you experience change. She has personally relied on these...

20 October, 2021

Work-life balance: What really makes us happy might surprise you

via Big Think by Lis Ku Finding the right work-life balance is by no means a new issue in our society. But the tension between the two has been heightened by the pandemic, with workers increasingly dwelling over the nature of their work, its meaning and purpose, and...

20 October, 2021

The Best Happiness Advice People Learned In Therapy

via the Huffington Post by Nicole Pajer The road to happiness isn’t always easy, nor does it really have one final destination. Joy exists on a spectrum. And thanks to work, life and relationship problems – not to mention, you know, an extremely distressing global pandemic –...

19 October, 2021

7 habits that will change your life

via Happiful by Ellen Hoggard What’s the secret to a happy life? OK, we don’t know the answer to that – in fact, we don’t think there is just one. But while there’s no magic formula to achieving a blissful existence, there are daily habits...

18 October, 2021

10 Things This Functional Medicine Expert Does Daily To Proactively Protect Mental Health

via Mind Body Green by William Cole Being wired and tired sucks. In fact, this has become so commonplace in our society that we don't always realize that's how we actually feel. And in my experience, until we hit pause and focus on our mental well-being,...

15 October, 2021

How to cope with an existential crisis

via Psyche Magazine by Skye Cleary Are you exhausted from rushing through life doing the same monotonous things over and over again? Perhaps those things that were once meaningful now seem vacuous, and the passion has burned out. Do you feel that pleasures are short-lived...

14 October, 2021

Time millionaires: meet the people pursuing the pleasure of leisure

via the Guardian by Sirin Kale In every job he has ever had, Gavin has shirked. When he worked in a call centre, he would mute the phone, rather than answer it. When he worked in a pub, he would sneak out of the building and...

14 October, 2021

Here is the simple secret to the most enduring form of happiness

via Fast Company by Jenn Lim As we know, science is an ongoing work of questioning, testing, and drawing new conclusions. Things we all learned in school that were“scientifically proven” might not be considered true anymore because the more we apply the scientific method, the more...

14 October, 2021

A new book explains the root causes of burnout and why we won’t solve them without changing work culture.

via the Greater Good by Jill Suttie Job burnout is on the rise, according to several surveys. People are feeling emotionally exhausted, detached from their work and colleagues, and less productive and efficacious. This makes them more likely to suffer health consequences, need sick days, and quit their jobs. Not...

12 October, 2021

Psychologists Introduce A New Concept For Measuring National Happiness

via Forbes by Mark Travers A new article published in the Journal of Positive Psychology explores some of the lesser-known intricacies of cross-national comparisons of happiness. For one, the researchers suggest it’s not enough to look at how often people experience happiness internally, but that outward expressions of happiness are...

12 October, 2021