positive psychology Tag

There are so many good people doing so much good work in the area of positive psychology and happiness but one of the best is Robert Biswas-Deiner. Once again he's written a great happiness relevant article focusing, this time, on kindess and weakness. It goes...

28 February, 2012

We all have multiple domains within our lives - we have our working or professional lives, our spiritual, health and wellbeing, social and (among other things) our family lives.  All of these are important for our happiness and with the weekend just around the corner, when...

24 February, 2012

One of the biggest obstacles to happiness is frustration and disappointment and one of the biggest contributors to frustration and disappointment is...

22 February, 2012

If happiness is living a full life and if happiness is having no regrets then this article, recently published in The Guardian, should be of interest to all in search of living a happy life...

20 February, 2012

On Saturday I ran a very successful and enjoyable workshop with 35+ fantastic people who all came along to learn how to live their best lives...

20 February, 2012

Acacia Parks is one of the leading lights in happiness and positive psychology research. I'm happy to share with you this article she wrote and published in a recent newsletter from the International Positive Psychology Association (HERE).  The Happiness Seekers: who are they?  This article is a...

18 February, 2012

Check out this interesting article by Sarah Berry from the SMH (HERE) in which I (Dr. Happy) am quoted! Happiness is not about being shiny and sparkly and new 100 per cent of the time. Although, you'd be forgiven for thinking it is. That's the view of...

14 February, 2012

Note: I received this email (sent via The Happiness Institute) just the other day and couldn't help but think that in so many ways it summed up many key principles of happiness and positive psychology. As you'll see, it's not all about smiley happy lovely...

14 February, 2012