happy Tag

by Dr. Timothy Sharp - Clinical & Coaching Psychologist (Twitter @drhappy)  In recent weeks we've seen several high profile examples of the devastation mental illness can cause. If we needed any more evidence that no one, regardless of fame and fortune and beauty, is immune to...

23 February, 2014

Maria Popova from Brain Pickings writes fantastic articles on all manner of thought provoking and stimulating topics. I know some find them a bit long, and dense, but in my opinion it's definitely worth making some time to read them.  And once again she's written a...

21 February, 2014

by Brian Penny from LifeHack We all want to be happy, and, like most things in life, the journey there is more important than the destination. If you’re looking for a reason to smile, there are some common places of happiness we all share, although each...

20 February, 2014

Does happiness require enlightenment?  Probably not.  But in many religions and schools of philosophical thought enlightenment is the ultimate goal from which real and meaningful happiness will (among other things) be experienced.  I'm not entirely sure if one is NECESSARY for the other but I am pretty sure...

18 February, 2014

by Ben C. Fletcher, D.Phil., Oxon from Psychology Today  Happy people view things differently to unhappy people. They are more positive, more solution focussed. They look at things in terms of gain rather than loss. More importantly, though, they have a distinctly different set of habits....

16 February, 2014

by Joel Gascoigne from Fast Company It’s a little over three years since I first had the idea for Buffer, and I’ve started to notice a few patterns amongst the ups and downs that come with building a startup. One of the most important things I’ve learned...

13 February, 2014

The right type of selfishness can lead to the right type of happiness.  If you love yourself first YOU CAN THEN love others.  So selfishness as a STARTING POINT is not really selfishness because it can be used as a spring board to selflessness and love and...

12 February, 2014

We'd all love to enjoy happiness all the time.  But we all know (or at least most of us know) that we WON'T be happy all the time.  Good and bad days are a normal part of life as too are feelings of hopelessness and helplessness at...

11 February, 2014