Suddenly, an 'up' attitude could be downright cool Obama fuels a swing toward 'hip' optimism By Colleen Mastony | Tribune reporter January 22, 2009 On upcoming episodes of the television show "Grey's Anatomy," more patients will be surviving. Elsewhere in Hollywood, a powerful movie director says he...
Just a month after rival PepsiCo launched a major marketing campaign that features a new smiling logo, Coca-Cola Co. unveiled Wednesday in New York its new marketing campaign: "Open Happiness." The dueling campaigns could reignite the cola wars and even help the overall U.S. soft-drink market,...
The start of the positive psychology movement in 2000 witnessed the publication of 50 titles on happiness in the US. Last year, 4,000 titles with a smiley face in them went into print. Positive psychology courses continued to rake in record number of student...
"Happiness does not come from success, success comes from happiness" - Buddha I do that. I have a concept of success in my mind: business man, spiritual, no negative thoughts and feelings, no fear or complaining, confident, loving, beautiful and strong. I believe that if...
Since the 1970s, relationship experts have popularized the notion of "empty nest syndrome," a time of depression and loss of purpose that plagues parents, especially mothers, when their children leave home. Dozens of Web sites and books have been created to help parents weather the...
One of the key concepts within positive psychology is that of "flow". Research suggests that people who experience more flow in their lives also experience more happiness. To read an interesting summary of key points within the domain of happiness and flow - click...
I've referred to his work before and so it is, with great pleasure, that I bring you another short but interesting piece from www.jongordon.com The positive psychology research clearly shows that happiness provides many advantages and Jon sums them up nicely below. So read on...
Unfortunately, I can't say I've read it yet but I just came across a book review in The Times (click here) that makes the book in question, The Optimist, sound very interesting. In a personal, autobiographical style the auther describes his journey to and...
I've often said that happiness is not a solo-effort but rather, a team sport. Very few people, if any, achieve happiness on their own. In contrast, we know from the positive psychology research that happy people have both more and better quality relationships....
Click here for a short invitation to give for happiness. Although this particular blog does not go in to much detail or elaborate greatly on the issues within this is a very important topic and one that is, quite simply, indisputible...