C’mon, get happy! Happiness is something you choose
Check out my brief thoughts on happiness in the latest edition of Body & Soul Summer (the magazine)...
16 November, 2010
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Start writing your way to happiness
by Sarah Hampson for the Globe and Mail Anyone can write a love note to himself to help create lasting happiness. The only caveat is that it doesn_ã_t work as well if you_ã_re too self-critical, needy and oversensitive to potential abandonment. That_ã_s the finding of a...
16 November, 2010
British Government to introduce happiness index
LONDON _ã” The government plans to introduce a "happiness index" to gauge its population's psychological and environmental wellbeing, a source told the Guardian newspaper Monday. Prime Minister David Cameron will ask the Office of National Statistics to prepare methods which will measure the "general wellbeing" despite...
15 November, 2010
Imagine a revolution of happiness and health
I've often talked about my desire to start and/or be part of a happiness revolution; a movement I believe has already begun in which our health system really focuses on health rather than sickness; in which parents focus on the best in their children not...
15 November, 2010
Happiness: you’ll only find pain when you complain or blame!
The complete guide to blaming: How to play and how to quit. by Neil Farber for Psychology Today I'm all about positivity. ? Belong to the International Positive Psychology Association ?Member of the Positive Health Section ?Have a website called wwwThePositivePower.net ?lecture on Creating a Positive...
15 November, 2010
Happiness is…balancing the past, the present and the future
As I've written about before, happiness comes at least partly from living in the moment (see this previous blog posting). But as long as we do it right, happiness also comes from positive reminiscing and future planning (especially when the planning involes setting and working towards...
14 November, 2010
Finding happiness in long term relationships
In an interesting article for Positive Psychology News Daily, Kathryn Britton concludes with...
13 November, 2010
Happiness is…a focused mind
By Jenifer Goodwin for Business Week If you want to be happy, try to stay focused. New research shows that when people's minds drifted from the task or activity at hand, they reported being less happy than when they were fully engaged in whatever they were...
12 November, 2010
Now here’s a great happinss quote…
Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha. - Robert Brault So go and dance your way to happiness! ...
12 November, 2010
10 common happiness mistakes
by Gretchen Rubin of the Happiness Project This Wednesday: 10 common happiness mistakes. To delay to do something important until you have some _ã–free time,_ã because you may never have any free time To retreat into isolation when you_ã_re...
11 November, 2010