Happiness
How Successful People Think (Part 2): Creativity and Focus Working Together
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” ~Mark Twain Tweet
Read MoreHow Positivity Causes You to Flourish: The 2 Minute Positivity Test
“Positivity presents an opportunity to step up to the next level of existence: to broaden your mind and build your best future.” ~Barbara Fredrickson Tweet
Read MoreCareer Coaching 3-Part Series (Part 3): Bouncing Back From Major Life Changes
“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.” ~Joseph Campbell Tweet
Read MoreCareer Coaching 3-Part Series (Part 1): Bouncing Back From Major Life Changes
“Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to navigate them” Tweet
Read MoreUse Your Strengths to Reach Goals and Increase Well-Being
“Reaching beyond where you are is really important.” ~Martin E. P. Seligman Tweet
Read More2 Minute Coaching Tool to Increase Optimism and Success
“The most successful people, the ones with the competitive edge, don’t look to happiness as some distant reward for their achievements; they are the ones who capitalize on the positive and reap the rewards at every turn.”~Shawn Achor Tweet
Read MoreIncrease Your Happiness by Choosing the Right Relationships
“We must select our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted”~Napoleon Hill Tweet
Read MoreTools for Your Get Your Mojo Tool Box!
“We shall neither fail nor falter; we shall not weaken or tire…give us the tools and we will finish the job.” ~ Winston Churchill Tweet
Read MoreA Simple Formula to Generate Positivity in Your Life and Workplace
My first assignment for them was to keep their What Went Well log, a tool developed by the positive psychologist Martin Seligman, and something that I have written about on the Appreciative Leaders and Organizations Blog before. You can read about the WWW exercise here, but in a nutshell, it helps you focus on the positives in your life–the positives that our brains don’t see when we are swamped by negativity.
Read MoreFinding Happiness Isn’t the Answer, Finding Meaning Is
Finding Happiness Isn’t the Answer, Finding Meaning Is
You may think that you “just want to be happy.” But, it turns out, that’s not enough.
It is not surprising that you would think you would just want to be happy because “happiness is like the holy grail” according to Sonja Lyubomirsky, a professor of psychology at UC Riverside and author of The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want. “People around the world want it. If you ask people what they want for their children, they’ll say for them to be happy. It’s in our Declaration of Independence. It matters to and affects everyone.”
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