happiness Tag

by Melanie Greenberg  In the past few years, there has been an explosion in books and courses about happiness. Brain science has progressed more in the past decade than the previous hundred years, allowing us to understand the biological bases of human emotion.  Research in positive...

23 May, 2014

by Marc Chernoff The unhappiest people in this world are the people who care the most about what everyone else thinks. “What’s wrong with wanting to please others?” That’s what several people asked me via email in response to one of my recent articles.  Today, I want to discuss...

21 May, 2014

by Katherine Roseburg from Tiny Buddha “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh The past few years have been full of hard but necessary lessons I needed to learn about my...

21 May, 2014

Today (Thursday May 22) I'm presenting a keynote presentation at the Brisbane Positive Schools conference and the title of my talk is "Be Happy. Be Different. Be Happy."  In short, it's based on the idea that being different is, ultimately, the only real option! Because we're...

20 May, 2014

by Jeff Haden via Inc.com Willpower is not something you either have or you don't. Sure, some people may be more self-disciplined than you. Some people may be better at resisting temptation than you. But that's probably not because they were born with some certain special something...

20 May, 2014

Passion is energy.  No, passion is positive energy.  And positive energy is what motivates, inspires and drives us toward positive behaviours that bring abour real and meaningful happiness.  So passion is pretty important for happiness; which is why we're sharing this article with you today ...

15 May, 2014