Positive Psychology is the most popular class at Harvard University, having enrolled 855 students last semester.
Are you astounded?
What attracts so many students to study happiness?
Is such a class really needed in today’s world?
“Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.” ~ Dale Carnegie
This profound quote has been repeated again and again over the years. But what does it mean, and how can you apply it in everyday life?
In its simplest form, this simply suggests that success comes from achievement and accomplishment, and happiness is attained from appreciating and feeling grateful for what you attain and where you are.
This sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? But problems arise because we often times don’t know what we want.
Bob Sutton, creator of the No Asshole Rule, posted Wednesday 8 suggestions for “enduring and triumphing against abusive bosses and co-workers” titled Latest Tips for Surviving Workplace Assholes.
Negative people, places, and situations can have a detrimental effect on your life. Similarly to seemingly insurmountable workplace obstacles and situations, in the form of people and situations, there are no instant fixes for these sorts of problems in our private lives, either.
I will present present Slow Down FAST – 5 Secrets to Success: How to Begin Living YOUR Life YOUR Way in a groundbreaking FREE teleseminar event on Tuesday evening, September 11th.
According to a recent study of 1,148 adults nearly two thirds of parents say they don’t spend enough time with their children, while half say they must make their job a top priority – even if it affects their family life.
It doesn’t have to be that way.
Following are a few of the many myths about life balance. Overcoming these ways of thinking often takes time, but can be accomplished through simple paradigm shifts. Simply change a few basic, often long-held assumptions, and you’ll be well on your way.
Tim Ferris wrote the book “The Four Hour Workweek.” The book isn’t so much about only working four hours a week; it’s really about living
Sociologist Paul Ray wrote a book titled “The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World.” Ray researched a movement called the “grass
Opportunity Cost is one of those concepts that all of us think we understand, but we’re often unable to calculate the real dollars involved.
In its simplest terms, Opportunity Cost can be defined as follows:
In order to gain something, you must lose something else.
How does, and should, this factor into the decisions we make in our everyday lives?
Sometimes the things that you plan for are interrupted by the unexpected, unwanted things. Often, we have misguided expectations of things, but sometimes that can
According to Robert A. Emmons, people who feel gratitude experience higher levels of happiness and joy in their lives, along with being in better health
A quote from Robert H. Frank states: “The ultimate scarce resource in life is the willingness of other people to pay attention to us.” Frank
Positive psychology can be defined as focusing on what is right with people as opposed to focusing on what is wrong, or negative. In the
A British Neuropsychologist, Dr. David Lewis, gave this formula for happiness: ((L+As) / 2) 2 + (( E+N) / 2) + 2A+C+B) x (4/ (S+1)).
What single obstacle repeatedly gets in the way of you getting the job done? For the most part, it’s not knowing when enough is enough.
What do you do when an idea clicks in your mind? Some suggestions are: apply it then and there, write it down and work on
The Dalai Lama, after many years of studying humankind and trying to reach enlightenment, stated that: “Happiness is the purpose of our lives.” There is
Have you ever heard the saying “Take what you need and leave the rest behind?” There’s another meaning to the phrase (other than the obvious one). In some ways it’s the opposite of, and counter-intuitive to, what you already know.
Many people, over the course of their life and careers, lost sight of what truly matters and what they truly value. If we prioritize our
