“The soul is the very essence of our being that causes us to feel joy and connect with other people.” ~ Shawn Achor Shawn Achor is a positive psychologist who studies happiness. Learn more from his best-selling books The Happiness Advantage and Before Happiness, his TED talk, or his appearance on Oprah’s Super Soul […]
Happiness is a choice
Ahh, happiness… it is something we all want to have but many find elusive, especially in this fast-paced world with lots of pressures, deadlines, and to-do lists. And for those of us who have experienced some kind of trauma in our past, we may actually have physical or emotional roadblocks to happiness over which we […]
Happiness is a habit
I am currently reading The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor and listening to the accompanying CD set. Really good stuff! I highly encourage you to get it — it gives you all the latest research on positive psychology focused down into practical steps you can implement right away. It turns out that we can train […]
Inspire Friday ~ keep going
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” ~ Jim Ryun Charles Duhigg is a NY Times journalist who wrote The Power of Habit. In it, he compiled all the latest research on habits from the fields of social psychology, neuro science and clinical psychology. It’s good stuff! When we do a […]