By Lionel Ketchian (www.happinessclub.com) Can you imagine happiness being more important than anything else in your life? Happiness is the end result of everything you do. It is what we all want. So why don't we do it first? Imagine that happiness is the most...
Posted by Jonny Diamond on Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:03 PM See the original posting - here 1. Always stand when a woman is getting in or out of her chair, or when she's entering the room. 2. Be nice to all waitstaff, at all times. This...
Some of you would already be aware of these options but for those who aren't completely cognisant of all we're doing here at The Happiness Institute to build a positive community around happiness discussions, check out and join in on the following...
On Saturday April 24 I went along to the Sydney Convention Centre to see my first _ã–guru_ã. Although I_ã_d read, watched on TV and/or listened on my iPod to many of the leading lights in the personal development arena I_ã_d never yet seen one live....
Yesterday I provided an introduction and link to a well written defence to the attacks on the science of happiness, positive psychology. Today, I invite you to read Ted's follow up titled "More Reasons Barbara Ehrenreich Is Wrong About The Benefits of Optimism" which he...
Some time ago, a new book came out attacking positive psychology and the happiness movement. It was, in many ways, quite inaccurate and many of its criticisms were invalid and unfounded. At the time, I wrote several posts defending the happiness "industry" and challenging some of...
As many of you would well be aware, there are many, many books on happiness and more being published almost on a daily basis. What many of you possibly don't know is that quite a few of these books are sent to me and I'm regularly...
Although _ã–success_ã can be defined in a variety of ways, for many in the _ã–western_ã world success is primarily something most associate with wealth. This is not necessarily or completely invalid, but a focus on finances to the exclusion of other life domains can be...
More than ever, we are defined by how much we earn. But does a higher salary make us more content? Or is it enough just to be paid more than our colleagues? With the gulf between top earners and the lowest paid at its widest...
Check out these 2 articles on factors contributing to happiness...