Category Archives: Happiness
Happy Holidays! Spend a little, Give a lot.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS PEOPLE. How to Spend a Little and Give a Lot – Small Donations Twenty bucks buys movie tickets or a weekend’s worth of lattes. But you can do a world of good – from feeding an endangered animal to educating a child – for even less. Oprah.com | From the December 2011 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
$1 Two books shipped to a classroom in Africa. In many schoolrooms on the continent, 20 children share one textbook.
booksforafrica.org
$2 A set of drumsticks for a low-income public school student learning to play the drums.
littlekidsrock.org
Work Less and Get More Done Written by Jenny Shih. http://jennyshih.com/
Work Less and Get More Done Written by Jenny Shih. http://jennyshih.com/
Last week I was chatting about business with a friend and fellow entrepreneur. The conversation came around to productivity and getting things done. At some point I told her, “Some days I don’t work at all.”
“Really?!” she said. “Wow. That’s good to know. I wouldn’t have guessed that about you.”
Dysfunctional Family Bingo
COACHING TIP OF THE MONTH
Going to a reunion, wedding, or a long road trip and NOT looking forward to the journey and/or event? Here’s a great tool to try that will help release tension, expand your paradigm, and put a different spin on the experience.
It is called Dysfunctional Family/Event Bingo and was originally designed by best selling self-help author, Martha Beck.
How to play? A few weeks before the journey or event, find one or two other players, such as a few of your best friends, and set a wager that the losers must buy the winner lunch (for example). Adding the element of competition to this can make it even more hilarious.
Compassion Can be Learned and Measured!
This Is Your Brain on Happiness By Penelope Green
Oprah.com | From the March 2008 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine Circuits in your brain light up when you’re happy. One groundbreaking researcher has discovered how to keep them lit. There are no dark corners in Madison, Wisconsin, a university town that sparkles with endowment and research dollars—more than $900 million last year—as well as just plain Midwestern niceness. The grants are well earned: It was at the University of Wisconsin–Madison that the first bone marrow transplant was performed and the first synthetic gene was created. It was here that human stem cells were isolated and cultured in a lab for the first time. And for more than a decade, one of the campus’s most productive hit makers has been the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, run by a 56-year-old neuroscientist and professor of psychology and psychiatry named Richard J. Davidson, PhD, who has been systematically uncovering the architecture of emotion.
Martha Beck’s Latest Wisdom
Bright Spots
Insight from Martha Beck
I’m all blissed out because I just returned from this year’s African STAR (Self-Transformation Adventure Retreat) at the Londolozi Game Reserve. It’s impossible to describe the joy and enchantment of coaching incredible people at a place devoted to “Restoring Eden.”
“Our most precious gifts are often things we were shamed for as kids.”
What Does “Ground Truth” Look Like? By Nona Jordan, The Business Yogini. Seen at Jennifer Voss site: http://truthexperience.net/
I have always had a big mouth.
As a kid, in a dysfunctional family, I remember being hissed at by my grandmother (who I dearly loved) that I was the “town crier”, which was not a compliment. She wanted me to keep my mouth shut and stop telling people what was happening in my family (which was, in fact, imploding).
Never a Better Time to Be Alive
Why There’s Never Been a Better Time to be Alive: The Rational Optimist
By Matt Ridley Friday, April 01, 2011
A British scientist and author of the book, The Rational Optimist, makes the case that mankind’s progress has been vigorous, widely spread, and not just benefiting the privileged few.
Matt Ridley says, “Average citizens are becoming healthier, cleaner, smarter, kinder, happier, and more peaceful.” And he has the facts to back it up.
Read his essay right here!
FOR the past month, the news has been all bad – war, recession, riot, tsunami, earthquake, nuclear disaster, inflation, and budget cuts.
Think you can, think you can’t…you are right.
Need inspiration? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU4oA3kkAWU
Age Is A State of Mind by sheroldbarr on March 4, 2011
http://www.sheroldbarr.com/age-is-a-state-of-mind/
The key to better health, life satisfaction, and aging gracefully is a youthful outlook.
I turned 59 this week, which means that I’m in my 60th year. A friend recently told me that I’m at the end of my young middle years.
I flinched when she said that and said to myself, “I don’t have to buy that.”
Then I thought about it and decided why would I want to attach to that thought and feel bad? Why would I want to argue with reality? Why would I want to create resistance in my mind about age and suffer?