Happy Tips

Money cannot buy you happiness, according to new research from the University of Ulster. The most important sources of happiness are good health and freedom from financial worries, Professor Vani Borooah found. He studied more than 3,000 interviews from the Poverty and Social Exclusion in Northern Ireland...

30 January, 2007

From childhood to old age, we are taught to do something in life and the motivation behind that 'something" is usually money. We market ourselves to big firms to get a job, hoping to accumulate a chunk of cash in the future. America is a...

30 January, 2007

I recently came across the following tips for achieving happiness in the workplace (thanks to JoAnna Brandi). 1) Positivity - Be positive, and focus on the positive in both the people around you and in the company in general. This means you're looking at...

30 January, 2007

What the hell is happiness, and where can I buy me some? Movies and magazines propounding the great American - read Australian - dream of entrepreneurialism are fessing up that it simply isn"t the job of capitalism to make us happy. Rather, the onus of...

30 January, 2007

The Happiness of This World - By Karl Kirchwey It has been such a comfort, such a pleasure, to have had this book at elbow the past few weeks. You can read a book of poems from cover to cover, if you want - there are no...

29 January, 2007

The Department of Happiness is the name given to an advisory committee, formed by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, that is exploring what policy-makers can do to improve British spirits. Panel member Tim Jackson, a professor of sustainable development at the University of Surrey, tells Scott...

28 January, 2007

As has been touched on in other blog postings we, at The Happiness Institute believe that happiness will come to those who focus on positives and practice the positive psychology principles of happiness proven to work. At the same time, however, there's no doubt that...

28 January, 2007

Many of you are probably already aware of the Kingdom of Bhutan and its focus, for the last few decades, on Gross National Happiness (as opposed to the more common economic indicators used by most "Western" countries). If nothing else, their efforts have focused the...

26 January, 2007

Last night I went to a comedy night and had a wonderfully happy few hours laughing at some outrageous and very clever entertainers. On my way home I reflected on the fact that although I often have fun, experience happiness, and engage in activities...

26 January, 2007

I'm pleased to include the following short article: Learning to be happy - by Kim Pierce Happiness, versus fleeting pleasure, can be learned and practiced. That's a common thread Dr. Andrew Weil sees running through three books on the topic that he discusses in his December...

25 January, 2007