It’s all about animal instinct. My one-year old dog, Rocco, has been reminding me of this lately. When I hear him bark at a foreign noise in the stairwell – or when he has to pee atop another dog’s urine, as if to signify, “I am here, I am best.”
It reminds me of bullies, those [...]
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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 [...]
First on Barbara Walter’s special of the 10 Most Fascinating People of 2009 is Lady Gaga.
What makes her so positive?
“I had a dream and was fearless with my ambition,” Gaga (who’s right around my age) says. “Every bit of me is devoted to love and art.” It’s all about clarifying dreams and building intrinsic [...]
I do! And I’m working at silencing him. Maybe you are too? Let me tell you - the tools from my field, Positive Psychology, are scientifically proven to help combat that. To make us more resilient! More happy! Don’t you want that?
I love how this guy (ill doctrine) talks about it in terms of CREATIVITY. [...]
Several weeks ago, I had the opportunity to participate in a really cool experience: An Appreciative Inquiry (AI) summit hosted by Mayor Jackson of Cleveland, Ohio called Sustainable Cleveland 2019: Building an Economic Engine to Empower a Green City on a Blue Lake. The event brought together business, political, educational, and religious leaders from [...]
Last week I saw (from the first row, and in 3-D) Disney Pixar’s Up, an animated film about life, adventure, and friendship. The film certainly pulled on my heart string in a very “other-people- matter”-positive-psychology-kind-of-way. The film also speaks to this month’s PPND theme of fun.
In it, a young hopeful and optimistic Carl Fredricksen becomes [...]
BALANCE is the key to HARMONY.
HARMONY is the key to SERENITY.
SERENITY is the key to PEACE.
PEACE is the key to inner HAPPINESS.
HAPPINESS is the key to LOVE.
LOVE is the key to LIFE!
What do YOU think about this?
“Love is in the air, everywhere I look around
Love is in the air, every sight and every sound” (lyrics by Paul Young)
Love is such a strange phenomenon. We all want it. We all need it. But do we all have it?
I recently learned of a very cool definition of love:
“Love is the flowing, the outpouring [...]
Round & Round & Round It Goes
The voices in our heads can be real buzz-kills. “I’m not whatever enough.” I should be (doing) X, I should be (doing) Y, I should be (doing) Z.
WinterSome call this voice “the gremlin” or saboteur. Others look at it is as a radio station that plays recurring tunes of [...]