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5 things that shouldn’t determine your self-worth…but probably do!
via Inc.com by Amy Morin When you get measured at the doctor's office, does the medical professional use a random stick to reveal your height? Hopefully not. If they did, you might be 3½ sticks tall in one doctor's office and 12 sticks tall in another. That...
20 June, 2017
Seth Godin’s two list activity that could change your life!
This is happiness at its simplest. This is personal development at its best - simple and practical. Happiness and success should NOT be complicated and this great blog illustrates how to achieve wonderful things relatively easily...
20 June, 2017
7 ways to have an amazing relationship
via Eric Barker Everybody would love to have an amazing relationship. But most of the advice you get isn’t from real experts. Whaddya say we just go ahead and fix that? Albert Ellis was quite a character. He was controversial. Outspoken. A bit of a rebel. In fact, the book...
20 June, 2017
Finsbury Park, Palace of Westminster, Terrorism and more…I don’t want to live in this world any more!
by Dr. Tim Sharp In recent weeks I've been shocked and distressed by several terror related acts of violence and murder in London; and then there's the outright tragedy of the Grenfell fire. Prior to that, in recent years, we've witnessed horrible incidents in Paris, New York...
19 June, 2017
More support for the notion that social interaction is crucial for mental and physical health
via the NY Times by Jane Brody Hurray for the HotBlack Coffee cafe in Toronto for declining to offer Wi-Fi to its customers. There are other such cafes, to be sure, including seven of the eight New York City locations of Café Grumpy. But it’s HotBlack’s reason...
19 June, 2017
If you think self-awareness is important for happiness then you’ll want to read about these 5 great tips…
via Eric Barker You probably know more than a few people who are just clueless about themselves. They make the same errors over and over but never seem to notice. They think they’re great at stuff that, frankly, they’re terrible at. But that’s not the real problem… The...
15 June, 2017
When it comes to happiness, forget “work life balance” and go for “work life alignment” instead
via Forbes by Todd Emaus It’s time to call out what has become one of the most harmful myths that has been told in modern society: the importance of work-life balance. The concept has been drilled into our heads by so-called experts for years now. Yes,...
15 June, 2017
Good people doing good things
Sometimes it can seem as though the world is all bad. Reading most news' sources suggests the world is in absolute turmoil with evil proliferating and disaster all round. Well, there's no doubt bad things do happen; and bad people do bad things. But there's also no doubt...
14 June, 2017
Do you find it hard to “love yourself”? Then try this instead…
by Dr Happy (aka Dr Tim Sharp) I don't know about you, but I have to admit that I've always struggled a bit with the recommendation to love myself. I mean in principle it sounds fine; but in reality, it sounds a bit like a prompt to...
14 June, 2017
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