Happy Tips

And please enjoy this story, linking positive psychology and happiness, from David Pollay. July 23, 2007 Let Positive Triggers Turn on Your Best Self One day last year I was sitting in my office by myself and I wasn"t feeling good. Yes, it's true. I research, write...

25 July, 2007

Please find below another interesting post from the Happiness Project. One thing is clear: a major key to happiness - in fact, the major key - is having close relationships with other people. We need close, long-term relationships, we need to be able to confide...

25 July, 2007

The Serious Business of Happiness By Arthur C. Brooks Posted: Monday, July 23, 2007 In four recent Wall Street Journal articles, AEI visiting scholar Arthur Brooks used social science data to explore questions about life satisfaction. In a May article, he noted...

24 July, 2007

I hope you enjoy the following happiness related article from the newsletter of Jon Gordon. Jon is "the energy guy" and energy is obviously important for happiness so if you'd like to find out more go to www.jongordon.com. I remember, as a high...

24 July, 2007

The path to happiness is paved with philanthropy, businessman tells NAACP chapter Entrepreneurship should be fostered for success, he said. By Daniel Patrick Sheehan | Of The Morning Call July 22, 2007 When Eddie C. Brown walks an audience along the path to success, he is a...

23 July, 2007

Money not always a ticket to happiness By Holly Miyasaki is a reporter with the Penticton Western News. Jul 22 2007 Irish poet Oscar Wilde once wisely said "Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken...

23 July, 2007

Happiness has a real economic role to play By Lu Chun-wei ê__ã_Ô_ê_ԏ_ê‰Ô_㍠Saturday, Jul 21, 2007 Discussion and research on "development" emerged in the middle of the 20th century. Since World War II the focus of international attention has been development in developing countries. And since the implementation...

22 July, 2007

Psychology: Optimism produces positive results -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By SCOTT SMITH, For The Capital I remember someone telling me he had a parent who could look out on a sunny day and see the one cloud in the sky and pronounce, "A storm might be coming." This pervasive negativism wore...

22 July, 2007

From The Happiness Project If you want to encourage people to do something -- such as eat their vegetables -- why is it a bad idea to give them a prize? One of my most important happiness principles is to "Follow my interests." Sometimes, I develop a...

21 July, 2007

Happiness is an inside job. Experiment with what works for you. Try these five essential happiness habits, adapted from "How to Do Just About Anything" on ehow.com. 1. Figure out what is important to you. Do you value a certain kind of job, material things, a...

20 July, 2007