➢ Use your VIA Strengths (measure them free by clicking here) to build energy and create momentum for how you be in the world. If you’re high on gratitutde for example, find innovative ways to use your gratitude, express your gratitude, be your gratitude. This will fuel your fire.
➢ Try not to let the pressure of time [...]
Last week I had the great fortune of being with the Dalai Lama three days in two cities. The second of these visits brought me to Washington DC, where the Mind Life Institute presented an annual congress on learning called “Educating World Citizens” which brought together over 2,000 international voices.
The Dalai Lama participated in all [...]
After getting an email from my sister Lisa this week entitled, “secret to a long life,” I’ve been wondering really, what it’s all about - for me. Then, serendipitously, I had the chance to do some action research this past weekend, which I spent in Cleveland, Ohio at my friend’s grandmother’s 93rd birthday. NINTY THREE [...]
BE YOUR BEST SELF
The good you find in others, is in you too.
The faults you find in others, are your faults as well.
After all, to recognize something you must know it.
The possibilities you see in others, are possible for you as well.
The beauty you see around you, is your beauty.
The world around you is a [...]
“Life is an experiment and the more experiments you make the better.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
* How about a strengths experiment? *
Enough about weakness! One of the major contributions to Positive Psychology in the past decade has been the VIA Classification of Strength and Virtue (Peterson & Seligman, 2004). This work has been published in response [...]