happiness Tag

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

by Luther Vandross What the world needs now Is love, sweet love It's the only thing That there's just too little of [Chorus] What the world needs now Is love, sweet love No not just for some But for everyone Lord we don't need another mountain There are mountains and hillsides Enough to climb There are oceans and...

04 December, 2012

Here at The Happiness Institute we're constantly working towards helping people gain a greater understanding of what real and meaningful happiness is AND, at the same time, busting many of the myths and misconceptions about happiness that unfortunately, can cause misery and frustration.  No one, for...

03 December, 2012

by Ingrid Poulson I am sometimes asked to identify what is the most crucial factor in becoming more resilient, a daunting prospect really, considering the wide range of resilience skills, behaviours and factors available to choose from. However, if forced to choose, I would have to say...

28 November, 2012

There's much we can learn about life and happiness from the most unexpected sources. I recently discovered this little gem of a story as it flew, like many less notable examples, around cyberspace. Many of these "jokes" or stories are barely worth reading; this one...

28 November, 2012

by Scott Crabtree for Positive Psychology News Daily Until recent years, the story of your brain was pretty discouraging. When I was getting my degree in Cognitive Science in the 1980s, I was told what you may have heard: you are born with billions of brain...

28 November, 2012