wellbeing Tag

Have you ever wondered what happiness really is?  Have you ever considered the differences between happiness and wellbeing?  What about the issue of happiness and money or wealth?  And can we make ourselves happy? or too happy?  Well, these and many other questions on happiness and subjective wellbeing are...

27 July, 2012

I'm always loathe to offer "prescriptive" approaches to happiness because what makes one person happy might not work for the next person.  That being said, the science of positive psychology has certainly revealed some general principles that do boost happiness for most people.  And this article pretty...

07 April, 2012

As many of you would well be aware I've been spending much of my time lately working on and promoting The Happiness Diet.  What does this mean?  Well, it means much more than just focusing on weight loss (although this is certainly a big part of what...

21 October, 2011

Here in Australia, and I would suggest, across most of the "Western World" we have a hidden epidemic of...

28 September, 2011

As most of you know I (Dr. Happy) spend much of my time talking about (and, obviously writing about) happiness and the various applications of positive psychology.  Within this, I tend to focus more or less on different aspects of positive psychology and on different strategies...

18 July, 2011

A few weeks ago I posted THIS ARTICLE on my blog. As you can see if you click on the above link, my thoughts and comments went like this...

11 July, 2011

Happiness vs wellbeing - is there really a competition?  That might seem like an unusual question but there's been much debate in recent years, within the positive psychology world, about the definitions of and comparative benefits of constructs such as happiness versus wellbeing versus flourishing and...

15 June, 2011

Read my review of Martin Seligman's latest publication, "Flourish: a visionary new understanding of happiness and well-being" Let me start by noting that I’m a huge Seligman fan. I’ve been lucky enough to meet and dine and talk to Prof.  Seligman several times during his visits...

10 May, 2011