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Articles:
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Everyday Happiness
- Act Happy Week 2023, Day 5: Self-Expression
- Act Happy Week 2023, Day 4: Self-Talk
- Act Happy Week 2023, Day 3: Self-Work
- Act Happy Week 2023, Day 2: Self-Care
5 Prescriptions for Happiness (downloadable PDF)
Strategies for Personal Change
- Book Reviews – Top 2 for ’21
- Done is Better than Perfect
- ThanksGETTING – How do you receive a Gift?
- I GOT A BALLOON!
Leadership and Workplace
- How To Ask For Coaching
- ThanksGETTING – How do you receive a Gift?
- Three Simple Rules
- ACT HAPPY WEEK, DAY 5: WHAT’S THE ONE THING?
Happiness Principles
- #6: Tolerate Nothing (downloadable PDF)
Annual Planning Kits
- Jim’s Annual Planning Kit for Couples (downloadable PDF)
- Jim’s Annual Planning Kit for Individuals (downloadable PDF)
Blog posts:
Act Happy Week, Day 5: Say Thank You
Today is the final day of Act Happy week: a week-long series on using your body to invoke Happiness. Today: Say Thank You — expressing Gratitude changes your body chemistry AND changes the environment around you (a 60-second lesson — read more at the blog)
Read more articles like this one in: About Happiness, Happiness Tips, In the workplace, Leadership, Practicing Happiness
Act Happy Week, Day 4: Fake It to Feel It
Today is the fourth day of Act Happy week: in a week-long series on using your body to invoke Happiness. Today: Fake It Till You Make It — change your body to change your emotional space (a 60-second lesson — read more at the blog)
Read more articles like this one in: About Happiness, Happiness Tips, In the workplace, Leadership, Practicing Happiness
Act Happy Week, Day 3: Reach Out and Touch Someone
Today is the third in a week-long series on using your body to invoke Happiness. Today: Reach Out and Touch Someone — create a conversation (a 60-second lesson — read more at the blog)
Read more articles like this one in: About Happiness, Happiness Tips, In the workplace, Leadership, Practicing Happiness
Act Happy Week, Day 2: Tell a Positive Story
Today is the second of a week-long series on using your body to invoke Happiness. Today: Tell a Positive Story — the Skill of Savoring (a 60-second lesson — read more at the blog)
Read more articles like this one in: About Happiness, Happiness Tips, In the workplace, Leadership, Practicing Happiness
Act Happy Week, Day 1: Smile on Purpose
Today is the first of a week-long series on using your body to invoke Happiness. Today: Smile on Purpose — at home and at work! (a 60-second lesson — read more at the blog)
Read more articles like this one in: About Happiness, Happiness Tips, In the workplace, Leadership, Practicing Happiness
Why didn't we listen to Henry Ford?
In the early days of the modern age, we had a leader who believed in the power of the human spirit. When he created the assembly line, we embraced that as a tool that ultimately extinguished the human spirit in the workplace. Why didn’t we listen to what else he had to say? (read more)
Accept Imperfection to Grow as a Leader
Anyone can be a leader who accepts that imperfection is part of the human condition, and who strives to engage and appreciate people for what they ARE versus resenting what they are not.
Do You Accept You, Flaws and All?
When you accept and admit that you are not perfect and you do not have The Correct Answer, you also open the possibility that there are MANY correct answers — and that is a powerful place to be!
We are what our habits allow us to be
Human development can be seen as a process of waking up to the choices that were there all the time. When we witness the nature of our habituation, when we open to the possibilities that our habits previously screened out, we have a moment of real choice. (and this is where Coaching emerges as midwife to the birth of a new ways of being in the world)
Imagine you lose all your data
Imagine you lose all your data. Your inbox, gone. Your sent file history, gone. What would you do? It happened to me, today….