U.S. loses Global Idol, wins pursuit of happiness
NEIL REYNOLDS
June 29, 2007
OTTAWA — Canada may still be a healthier and happier country, a wiser country, than the United States but - in relative terms at least - we are slipping. In the early 1990s, Canada led the world - designated as the No. 1 country on […]

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. – Helen Keller, 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author and Lecturer
And Dr. Happy’s version - One should never accept an “OK” life when one has the opportunity to experience real and meaningful happiness.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. – […]

Research continues to identify significant benefits associated with promoting happiness at work.
The following happiness article, reviewing problems associated with mental health problems in the workplace, may well be of interest to you our readers.
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The following article is from the Bulletin Magazine:
Longer working hours, commuting hell and rising family tensions: more and more Australians are looking for the ideal work-life balance. A ground-breaking new report provides some answers on how to find it. Roy Eccleston reports.
Jane Browne once had a well-paid job helping to run a Perth company’s […]

As many of you would know I, and my colleagues at The Happiness Institute, frequently work with individuals, leaders, executives, teams and organisations to help them achieve some degree of happiness at work.
And as some of our regular readers would also know I’ve written several blog postings on the topic of happiness at work. […]

At The Happiness Institute we believe, among other things, that clarifying your life purpose and direction, and setting clear and specific goals, is important for happiness.
Within goal setting we, like many others who work in this area, encourage our coaching clients to be “realistic” as unrealistic goals can lead to frustration and disappointment.
But […]

And another interesting article from our friends across the channel in NZ.
5:00AM Wednesday June 27, 2007
By Kirsten MacFarlane
Happiness is something that needs to be worked on.
In the search to feel even better Kirsten MacFarlane does a session of laughter yoga and has other ways for beating the winter blues.
The idea you have to […]

From Auckland (and writer Justine Glucina) comes this interesting story of happiness at work.
After 21 years in the police force, senior sergeant Graeme Porter has seen it all.
The officer-in-charge at Glen Innes says despite some bad people in the area, there are a lot of good people who make the job all worth it.
And […]

At The Happiness Institute we have a saying:
Achieving happiness requires nothing more than practising a few simple disciplines every day.
What do we mean by this?
We mean that happiness requires work.
We mean that happiness requires daily actions.
We mean that happiness will come to those who do something to create happiness on a regular […]

No one can live happily who has regard to himself alone and transforms everything into a question of his own utility; you must live for your neighbour, if you would live for yourself.
- Seneca
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
- John […]