3G happiness…giving, getting & gratitude
Check out this interesting and important article from Science Daily...
05 February, 2013
gratitude Tag
Why gratitude makes us healthier
by Ocean Robbins for Daily Good Our world is pretty messed up. With all the violence, pollution and crazy things people do, it would be easy to turn into a grouchy old man without being either elderly or male. There's certainly no shortage of justification for...
27 January, 2013
Gratefulness 365: take the Facebook Challenge!
by Ingrid Poulson (bio HERE) About two years ago, I almost gave up on Facebook. It seemed that this marvelous program for connecting people had been hijacked by mundane news feeds about scores on Bejeweled Blitz, political opinions and generally a lot of complaining (my favourite...
18 November, 2012
Happiness at work might be as simple as saying…thank you!
New research reveals something pretty obvious. Thanking and rewarding employees can give your business a boost. by Kathleen Kim for inc.com Don’t hold off until annual performance reviews to praise stellar employees. A simple “thank you” here and there can boost efficiency and even help your business...
13 November, 2012
More research supports the benefits of gratitude for health & happiness
by Eric Nelson from the Washingon Times LOS ALTOS, CA, May 28, 2011 – Gratitude pays. Just ask Dr. Robert Emmons. Last week the John Templeton Foundation announced that they were giving Emmons, a psychology professor at U.C. Davis $5.6 million to fund a three-year project to...
29 May, 2012
Stop. Take 10 minutes…watch this and be grateful
Today's blog post is very short; well, it won't include many words. But I hope you agree that it's important and profound and possibly even life-changing. If you accept the powerful message within this short film then you will definitely enjoy significantly more happiness. Because happiness will...
26 March, 2012
Count your blessings for health and happiness
Happiness is difficult to define and even harder to measure. We experience it as a combination of elements, in the same way that one wheel or spring inside a watch doesn't keep time — it is a result of the synchronicity of the whole. As...
15 March, 2012
You wouldn’t believe what you could be grateful for…but I hope you believe that it will lead to more happiness!
Happiness is finding something to be grateful for when you least expect it; happiness is looking for the best in what might sometimes seem like the worst. Thanks to Dan (who's currently doing my Positive Psychology Coaching Course) for bringing this to my attention: I'm grateful...
10 November, 2011
What’s going well in your world?
Happiness is having more conversations about what's going well...
14 September, 2011
Happiness is…3 enlivening positive moral traits
Just a few days ago I invited our Facebook community to review the "7 Deadly Sins" and then to proffer what they considered to be some more positive, enlivening moral traits that might contribute to happiness. Responses included honesty and compassion, love and respect, contribution, communication,...
04 August, 2011