focus Tag

If you answered yes, reflect on how you feel when you're online vs offline. Among other things, when you're staring at your screen you're often living other people's thoughts and worries and lives. When you get yourself offline, you can think your own thoughts and live your...

06 January, 2025

It's almost certainly true that you've made mistakes. It's almost certainly equally true that you've done much that's good. It's almost certainly true that you've failed. It's almost certainly equally true that succeeded and had wins. All these are true. But which are you focusing most on?...

30 December, 2024

You've heard of reverse psychology.  And counter-intuition.  What if you could use these to boost your happiness??? via Science of Us by David Marchese About 20 years ago, Randy J. Paterson, a clinical psychologist and currently the director of the Changeways Clinic in Vancouver, wasn’t having much success with...

04 June, 2016

On what do you want to focus?  Happiness?  Success?  Health? Wealth? Achievement? Relationships?  ALL OF THE ABOVE AND MORE?  Well, what ever it is you want to focus on we all face distractions; but we all, also, have a choice in how we deal with these and this nice article...

05 December, 2014

At least part of happiness comes from achievement.  And to achieve and accomplish, we need to be disciplined and focused.  So to enjoy more happiness, disipline is important and this great article from Forbes provides some great ways to develop the discipline needed to reach any of...

05 October, 2014

On what do you focus for happiness? Are you really prioritising your time and energy in the best way to maximise your happiness?  Two (completely unrelated) conversations I had at the end of last week prompted me to reflect upon a few key issues. As anyone...

10 December, 2012

Good morning all and happy monday to you.  As some of you would well be aware, I (Dr. Happy) have just one week left in my Dry July fundraising efforts.  I'm pleased to say that abstaining from alcohol has not been all that hard and that there...

25 July, 2011

Those of you who follow my/our work here at The Happiness Institute know that central to much of what we recommend for happiness is clarity around life goals, direction and purpose. What's really important? What are your priorities for life? Know the answers to these...

14 December, 2010

By Jenifer Goodwin for Business Week If you want to be happy, try to stay focused. New research shows that when people's minds drifted from the task or activity at hand, they reported being less happy than when they were fully engaged in whatever they were...

12 November, 2010