Did you know that success is a product of happiness – not the other way ‘round? According to former Harvard professor and author Shawn Achor, we’ve been thinking about success and happiness backward for millennia; that hard work and success will lead to happiness. As he explains in his book The Happiness Advantage, and this […]
5 Most Common Limiting Beliefs To Overcome
August 3, 2016 By 1 Comment
I’ve written extensively about the effects of limiting beliefs and how to overcome them. I’ve even gone so far as to create the FATE Blueprint Workbook, as a tool to help you overcome your own limiting beliefs. Yet, far too many people either avoid or rationalize the belief system they’ve developed; as a way to […]
How To Be A Better Role Model For Your Children
May 13, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Many years ago NBA All Star Charles Barkley was famously quoted as say, “I am not a role model.” Of course we all knew at the time, as did Mr. Barkley I’m sure, that what he’d said was incorrect, for sports stars and other celebrities are indeed role models to children whether we, or they, […]
Join A Laughter Club
April 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Today I wish to offer something a bit different in our consideration of laughter as tool for stress relief. Beginning in 1995, laughter yoga has begun to make an impression worldwide. It is a form of exercise developed by Dr. Madan Kataria, a Physician from Mumbai, India designed to promote spiritual healing and a sense […]
How Humour Generates A Positive Mindset
April 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Healing Power of Laughter series Part 2 of 2 How Humour Generates a Positive Mindset In the first post on Humour and Stress, I explained how the latest research has shown that laughter has powerful, positive physical effects on the body. However, that is not the only way that a good sense of […]
The Joke’s On Us – Laughter Reduces Stress
March 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Healing Power of Laughter series Part 1 of 2 The Joke’s on Us – Laughter Reduces Stress While working on the Happiness Series recently I came across a quotation that made me grin and gave me pause, causing me to consider the role of laughter and humour in stress relief – and in […]
Our Happy Journey Together
February 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
For the past couple of months we have been taking a journey together; a journey in pursuit of happiness. With this post that journey must come to a close though, as individuals, the pursuit of happiness continues – for all of us. My hope is that, by reading this series on happiness, you have discovered […]
Happiness Quotations
February 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
This month I would like to offer you a couple-of-dozen quotations about happiness from an array of authors, revered public figures, deep thinkers, and therapists. Some are deep, while others may seem a bit frivolous at first reading, yet I believe all have value, while many offer insight. These happiness quotations have been borrowed from […]
The Eightfold Path To Happiness – Mental Development
February 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
And today our journey along The Eightfold Path to Happiness resumes, and comes to an end, with the proper development of the mind; or the movement toward Mental Development. The Path recognizes that, as human beings, we simply cannot live in conflict with the person we are – or with the person we wish to […]
The Eightfold Path To Happiness – Ethical Conduct
February 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
And so we continue along The Eightfold Path to Happiness, which we began in my previous post, The Eightfold Path to Happiness – Wisdom. In that post we discovered that the path to Wisdom was critical to our pursuit of happiness, just as right-thinking and right-acting are critical to the pursuit of wisdom. Today we […]
