The Endless Smile Loop
Smiling. Yes, it’s that simple. Emotions are viral.
Happiness Tips
Don't be a Workplace Crab!
An effective leader does not behave like a crab, at any time and in any venue. Moreover, most good leaders have little tolerance for crabs, as they have a toxic effect on the workplace team. Still, crabs exist, for they often do their work under the sand, where they are not visible but they still undermine morale in the workplace.
Don’t Let the Crabs Pull You Down!
How Do You Recognize a Crab in Your World? Crabs usually reveal themselves through their language. Sometimes their actions are physical (like the crabs in the bucket) but most often they are more subtle, pulling you or others down with the weight of words…
Can You Relate? Practicing Happiness
I recently appeared on Coach Kathy Dawson’s new daytime talk show, Can You Relate? The focus of this six-minute segment: to improve your relationships, to start with you. Here are a couple tools to help you build stronger Positive Emotion Muscles!
Fourth, Use Your Power to Choose the Weather
Gifts For the New Year: Use Your Power to Change the Weather Here is your final Gift to help you prepare for a great 2011 — a reminder that you are more powerful than you know! This year, don’t treat your emotions like the weather – something about which one speaks but does nothing at … Read more
Third, Use Optimism to Create a Positive Future
Gifts for the New Year: Practice Optimism to Create a Positive Future As Martin Seligman (the father of Positive Psychology) realized decades ago, we can train ourselves into any number of emotional states. He first noticed the phenomenon of Learned Helplessness in lab animals subjected to random reward/punishment activities over which they had no control. … Read more
Second, Be the Real You
Gifts for the New Year: Be the Real You Notice all the places in your life where you feel distracted and stressed by how you’re behaving. Happiness Principle #13, Be Authentic, reminds that when you stop trying to “play a role” to fit what you think other people expect of you, you give yourself the … Read more
First, Believe in Happiness
Gifts for the New Year: First, Believe in Happiness At my coaching group’s annual holiday gathering, we exchange used, gift-wrapped books. When a book is opened, the person who brought it stands up to tell the story of how that book impacted impacted them, and why they chose to share it. One woman’s personal story … Read more
Reduce Your Holiday Stress: Simplify!
We Create Our Own Stress Do you ever find yourself thinking: “I have too much to do — I feel overwhelmed!?” How we are is a result of choices we make and the way we surround ourselves with stuff and challenges. Sometimes our choices can leave us busy and full — yet unhappy. That’s when … Read more
13 Scary Stories About Happiness, Part 2
Happiness frightens some people more than giant spiders. In honor of Halloween, I’ve assembled a list of stories people tell when they try to resist the conversation about Happiness. As you’ll see, while these myths can feel as scary as any monster, in the end they are only as “real” as vampires and zombies. 13 … Read more