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Articles represent the most recent content in five most-read topics – kind of a greatest hits in applied happiness. The Blog section below it is a straight feed of ALL my articles, listed from newest to oldest. There are hundreds of posts, going back to 2008 – so if you’re intent on exploring the unfiltered blog at length, you might want to access it on this alternate page, so you won’t have to scroll past this intro and the Articles section every time you load another page of older posts.
Articles:
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Everyday Happiness
5 Prescriptions for Happiness (downloadable PDF)
Strategies for Personal Change
Leadership and Workplace
Happiness Principles
Annual Planning Kits
Blog posts:
I mentor other coaches, in addition to working directly with clients. One of the coaches I’m currently mentoring wrote to ask how I keep learning. It caused me to reflect, and I ended up sending her and others a list of the resources and some books that I use to keep my own edge sharp. I share them here.
Read more articles like this one in: Executive Coaching, In the workplace
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Read more articles like this one in: In the workplace, Leadership, Relationships
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.
Read more articles like this one in: In the workplace, Leadership, Relationships
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!
Read more articles like this one in: Executive Coaching, Leadership
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)
