Martin Seligman, one of America’s top academic psychologists and its leading happiness guru, is visiting Australian on a lecture tour sponsored by, of all outfits, the Australian Institute of Management. His thesis - for which he admits he doesn’t yet have scientific proof - is that happier managers and workers lead to higher productivity and […]

At the end of 2006, the journal of world economic affairs, The Economist, produced a banner issue on “Happiness and Economics”. The lead article unwittingly revealed an Achilles heel of Economics. It has no way of telling the universal needs of human beings from junk commodities for the masses, or gold toilet-seats for the rich.
So […]

You can make a big difference in someone’s life with very little effort on your part. This is the secret sauce behind the success of the coaching profession. With only an hour every week or so, coaches impact lives and help many experience more happiness and success.
Coaching can help people achieve not just happiness […]

Do you believe that the role of the state should be to help us live interesting, surprising, memorable lives?
To what extent should governments be interested in and play a role in our happiness?
The happiness/wellbeing debate is raging hot over in the UK at the moment and if you’d like to read more, […]

Below you’ll find links to several articles with information on, and suggestions to overcome stress and to boost, therefore, your happiness and positivity. I hope you find them helpful:
If you want happiness at work then beware the effects of stress - click here for more.
If you’d like to read some tips for […]

Some organizations have elaborate employee incentive programs, employee bonus programs, and special award programs. Often they come with a budget attached so a manager is able to easily employ them. However, what kinds of happiness or morale boosting can you do if you’re a manager and have very little discretionary funds to devote to morale […]

The founding fathers of the United States declared independence from Great Britain with the memorable phrase “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness“. The phrase was inserted by Thomas Jefferson as a departure from Adam Smith’s more capitalistic formulation, “life, liberty and the pursuit of property.” (The frequent blurring of property and happiness in American […]

In recent weeks the following scenario has occured twice, in two very different contexts.
I was feeling frustrated with several people who are very important in my life.
At the same time, I’ve found a renewed interest in mindfulness meditation and on reflection, I realised that they were doing little wrong but rather, were […]

In the midst of training to be a classical ballet dancer, Beth Arciprete Comeau’s life took an unusual pirouette.
She attended the University of Maryland, College Park, was admitted to its School of Medicine, married, had three daughters, earned a faculty position as assistant professor of pediatrics, and now works part time as an emergency room […]

A new study indicates that one-third to one-half of our happiness is based on our genes. Attempts to change or control this part of our makeup may be impossible, according to a report of the study by Discovery News.
You can click here to read more of this happiness article but these findings are not, actually, […]