Happy Tips

The following article is from the Bulletin Magazine: Longer working hours, commuting hell and rising family tensions: more and more Australians are looking for the ideal work-life balance. A ground-breaking new report provides some answers on how to find it. Roy Eccleston reports. Jane Browne once...

30 June, 2007

As many of you would know I, and my colleagues at The Happiness Institute, frequently work with individuals, leaders, executives, teams and organisations to help them achieve some degree of happiness at work. And as some of our regular readers would also know I've written...

28 June, 2007

At The Happiness Institute we believe, among other things, that clarifying your life purpose and direction, and setting clear and specific goals, is important for happiness. Within goal setting we, like many others who work in this area, encourage our coaching clients to be "realistic"...

28 June, 2007

And another interesting article from our friends across the channel in NZ. 5:00AM Wednesday June 27, 2007 By Kirsten MacFarlane Happiness is something that needs to be worked on. In the search to feel even better Kirsten MacFarlane does a session of laughter yoga and has other...

28 June, 2007

From Auckland (and writer Justine Glucina) comes this interesting story of happiness at work. After 21 years in the police force, senior sergeant Graeme Porter has seen it all. The officer-in-charge at Glen Innes says despite some bad people in the area, there are a lot...

28 June, 2007

At The Happiness Institute we have a saying: Achieving happiness requires nothing more than practising a few simple disciplines every day. What do we mean by this? We mean that happiness requires work. We mean that happiness requires daily actions. We mean that happiness will come...

27 June, 2007

No one can live happily who has regard to himself alone and transforms everything into a question of his own utility; you must live for your neighbour, if you would live for yourself. - Seneca No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is...

26 June, 2007

June 24, 2007 (Broadway Books, 212 pages, $18.95) I was instantly drawn to this green and pink book with the pink piggy bank on the cover; oh, and to the subtitle that promised that the book would teach me "How to Spend to Get the Life You...

26 June, 2007

By Al Lewis Denver Post Staff Columnist Article Last Updated: 06/25/2007 11:13:32 AM MDT Can money buy happiness? You bet it can. Studies show that people in wealthier countries are generally happier than those in poorer countries, said Ed Diener, a University of Illinois psychologist who has...

26 June, 2007

This morning I was reminded of this wonderful quote: Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. - Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American Industrialist and Founder of Ford Motor Company And as I've done many times before, I happily provide you with the following happiness...

26 June, 2007