Christopher Peterson on Optimism
Excellent hour long video of Christopher Peterson with Robert Wright.
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An excellent talk by Daniel Pink on when and how to use incentives to improve performance. Rate This...
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How to Find your Career & Take Control of it in 2 Simple Steps.
With any of these items it’s clear when they became yours. You signed a piece of paper or swiped your credit card. In...
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How Believing You Will Be Successful Leads to Success..or Not
If, like me, you watch ‘The Voice’ or ‘Dragon’s Den’ or ‘(Insert Country you live in here) Idol’ or any...
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Final 100 Days Of Year 2012
These are the final 100 days of the year, and the the importance of finishing the year strong cannot be over nor...
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These are the final 100 days of the year, and the the importance of finishing the year strong cannot be over nor...
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Congratulations On Your Failure
I recently had this email conversation with one of my readers….and because I love the honesty shared by my reader and the...
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8 Simple Practices and Tips for Daily Happiness
Your social network feeds are full of people bitching and complaining about the injustices of society – like Starbucks...
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Discover Your True Passions
It takes time, soul-searching, and some life experience to identify your true passions. These prompts are written to tap...
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Guided Meditation for Wealth
With every step you take, you feel more alive and feel more bounce in each step. It’s difficult to stop yourself from...
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Defending Happiness
My brain goes places with that statistic. First, I feel relieved that I didn’t know that number before I wrote a book...
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See Me Beautiful: Cultivating Strengths in Young Children
In the midst of the battle, one word was uttered that caused the whole table to pause in disbelief: “Stupid.” This is...
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A Graceful Exit: Taking Charge at the End of Life
I was standing in my cubicle, a 24-year-old fact-checker envisioning a publishing career of glamor and greatness, suddenly...
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Why Should You Read “Happier at Home”?
you might think, “I’ve read The Happiness Project. What else can Gretchen Rubin have to say? Maybe it’s just a...
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A quick way to boost willpower
As you know from previous articles, research suggests that willpower is a limited commodity. We only have so much of it. ...
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What Is Money?
So when it comes to the question ‘what is money?’ or the question ‘what does success mean to me?’ may I...
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Self-Love: 9 Ways to Be Kind to Yourself Today
Being kind to yourself in everyday life is one of the best things you can do for yourself. Life will become lighter and...
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How to Delay Gratification and Get What You Truly Want Out of Life
What is holding you back from making big, positive changes with your habits? What is messing up your progress and making...
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4 Small Steps for a Simpler, Less Distracted and Less Stressful Online Life
Do you struggle with getting the most important things done each workday because you get stuck on Twitter or in your...
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How to Be Smart About How You Use Personal Development Information
So it is important to use your own common sense with any advice you are given. Sometimes it may mean that you rely on what...
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Batman Shooting in Colorado: Dealing With the Emotional Aftermath
While my work is in positive psychology, teaching clients to work towards greater happiness and contentment, there are many...
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New Positive Psychology eMagazine Coming – ‘Happier: Positive Psychology for All’
The latest in positive psychology made accessible for everyone. Learn the latest in happiness, hope, humor, realistic...
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If You Could Make Big Progress in One Area by Year’s End, What Would You Pick?
Sometimes, the act of identifying something as a “top priority” makes it easier to see ways to make that change a top...
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Happiness, Right Before Your Eyes (Review of The Happy Show)
Within the first five minutes of walking into graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister’s “The Happy Show” at the Institute...
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Having The Courage To Be Vulnerable
Emotional vulnerability takes a degree of fierce bravery. You might be hurt or criticised. You risk shame and humiliation....
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How To Create Abundance Mentality
I was born into a household of minimal means. The house I lived in was constructed of fibro and had two bedrooms. The...
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5 Success Ingredients For Cooking Up A Great Life
There are necessary ingredients for a life lived long and a life lived well; a preserved life that rides through the...
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5 Steps to Being Happy + Sparklingly Positive!
Let’s say you decide, “Yes! I really do want to live life on my own terms!” what shows up almost immediately is...
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Don’t Train Yourself Like a Dog
These days, there’s quite an emphasis on appreciating the animal side of human nature. We’re cautioned to respect the...
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“The Accidental…the Inevitable…the Fateful Tendencies Each One of Us Brings Into the World.”
“The names of the three spinners have been interpreted significantly…Lachesis, the name of the second, seems to mean...
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10 Ways To Get Over The Blues
Sometimes you are just in a foul mood. A case of the blues. Out of sorts. Whatever you call it, you are not in the best...
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How To Start Your Life All Over Again – Especially After Loss Or Death.
No matter how amazing you are, no matter how strong you are, no matter what your track record of success, something WILL...
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Angry Children – Who is to blame and what you can do ?
Dr. Michael Levin is the Medical Director of East Bay Psychopharmacology Group and the Pacific Cognition Center with 20...
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Smiling and Stress
The innovation of their research was that they deliberately manipulated whether participants were smiling or not — making...
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Music Hurts So Good
The P in Seligman’s theory of PERMA stands for positive emotion. It’s something that we are motivated to experience in...
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Secret Brains of ‘SuperAger’
Medicine has looked at what is wrong with us for over a hundred years. Yet with the advent of positive psychology,...
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5 Mistakes I Continue To Make in My Marriage
One of the main themes of my happier-at-home project is marriage. For me, as with many people, my marriage is one of the...
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Back to School: Studying on Purpose
For many motivated students, this will be the first time that they begin to study on purpose. When it no longer becomes...
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The Subtle Art of Contextual Parenting
I thought I was being as clear and direct as possible, but if I put myself in young Dylan’s shoes, this is not clear at...
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Guru’s can be wrong
Many years ago I was asked to develop the resources for a wellbeing course being offered by one of the largest Universities...
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Can Refusing To Give Compliments Be an Act of Love?
In the study of happiness, I’m always fascinated and moved when I see a person choose to react in a way that boosts...
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“When One Does Not Find One’s Repose in Oneself, It Is Useless To Look For It Elsewhere.”
This reminds me of one of my very favorite quotations, Samuel Johnson’s remark, “As the Spanish proverb says, ‘He, who...
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Do You Have Any “Tells” That Show That You’re Feeling Stressed?
I also follow the resolution to Pay attention to my “tells.” (A “tell,” in poker, is an action or expression that...
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Virtuous Organizations
Virtuousness is a form of behavior that leads to beneficial outcomes for humans and that is, in itself, “an ultimate...
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Finding Links between Vitality and Authenticity
One of the things that most of us look for in life is a feeling of energy. We spend our time with people we like, for...
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Launch of Positive Psychology News Daily in Portuguese
On August 1, 2012, the Association of Positive Psychology of Latin America (APPAL) launched the Portuguese-language version...
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Meaning Can Come from Suffering AND Play
When you think of the meaning of your life, do you think of making it, searching for it, finding it, or noticing it? Do you...
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Meaning: Extraordinary or Everyday?
The chair of the 7th Biennial Meaning Conference, Dr. Paul Wong, opened the second day with the statement that he had worked...
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Home Clutter, Confusion, and Chaos
My straightening up shocked me because I discovered all sorts of stuff that I barely remembered having much less using: two...
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