I’ve been working with the Governor’s Committee on Scholastic Achievement to give talks around New York to high school and college students - giving them nuggets of positive psychology that could help change the course of their lives.
The best part of these programs is that they not only involve the young adults, many of whom [...]
I’ve wanting to order a new Penn sweatshirt for quite sometime. The one (and only) that I own is getting a little ratty, like it may have been washed one too many times. The tassels are worn and even that little, plastic guard has come off. It’s time.
But although I’ve been thinking about getting a [...]
I’m getting ready to spend Easter with my family today. Deep breaths. While I’m excited to see them, I’m a bit apprehensive. It was two years ago that I launched my life’s work really - the creation of Social-Emotional Leadership - the idea that groups change when people within those groups stand up and say, [...]
Read my most recent article published today on Positive Psychology News Daily. Click here.
Can you believe Albert Einstein said, “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
I’ve been thinking on this lately. Albert Einstein was a smart, smart man. But quotes of his like this make me see [...]
Last week, our meetup discussed ways to really have a banging holiday season this year. A mighty group of us talked about how to use Positive Psychology (the science of happiness & success) to make this happen. We started by asking, “How do we want to be feeling on January 1?” Inspired? Excited? Rested? Hopeful?
Some [...]
She is an old soul with a young spirit who I met at a mutual friend’s cocktail party sometime last year. She and I were hanging out in the kitchen with several others talking about what we “do” – typical cocktail party banter. But when it came to Amanda’s turn to share, she had an [...]
I spent the past weekend in Florida visiting some old and new friends. It was amazing to spend time with Joe and Terry (the old ones) and their two-month old fraternal twins, Ariana Michele and Cruz Aiden (the new ones). How amazing it was to meet these little guys for the first time – [...]
Hello Mother, Hello Father
Greetings from summer sleep-away camp. Really, I write this tucked away in the woods in northeastern Pennsylvania – a tiny spot of heaven called Camp Happy Times – aptly named for a place where two hundred kids who have or have had cancer come for a week’s time of fun, fun, [...]
Thursday, April 30
8 pm
CUNY Graduate Center
See details here: http://www.meetup.com/NYCSelf-Improvement/calendar/10237058/
Hope to see you there!