Time and time again I've written about what I've come to call the Primacy of Positivity. I've covered it in my blog and I've had an academic paper on the topic published in an international academic journal! I talk about it constantly with businesses and teams, schools...
What have you learned that could bring you more happiness? In this morning's free eNewsletter I posted a great article from Leo Babuata (of Zen Habits fame) titled "38 Life Lessons I've learned in 38 Years". It begins like this...
Thanks to Jordana Divon for writing up this great article about creating a context for happiness...
As many of you would already know, I'm currently involved in a fascinating and exciting happiness project in collaboration with LG called the Life's Good Project. What we're trying to do is understand what every day Australian's consider to be their life's good moments (i.e. what...
As most of us know these days, the only constant is change. The following article from Positive Psychology News Daily, and by my friend Amanda Horne, is written mostly for a corporate or business readership but, I've no doubt that the principals are relevant to...
Yesterday I posted the following tweet on my Twitter account, @drhappy as well as The Happiness Institute's Facebook page...
by Dr. Happy from this morning's free eNewsletter According to that great source of information, Wikipedia, the Roman God Janus was...
In my professional (and, for that matter, my personal) life it’s not hard to accept (given my job title and the name of the organisation I founded) that pretty much everyone knows I’m fascinated by happiness and by what makes for a happy life. Most...
Happy to share with you another interesting and happiness related article from Daniel Tomasulo of Psych Central. It begins thus...
If you're going to get through the tough times then you might as well enjoy the good times! Do you ever dampen down positive emotions? Do you ever "manage" (read minimise) your happiness? Have you ever discounted positives in your life or brushed away compliments? If so,...