Positive Life and Living

Advocating for positive life and living to improve happiness. quality of life and improved wellbeing around the world.

Quotes

"Being social is the most successful form of higher adaptation known."Martin E.P. Seligman
Flourish
"Grief over a loving attachment is in some ways still a positive emotion that in time helps us to broaden and build."Shonnon Poly et al.
Character Strengths Matter
"One idea is to procure a gratitude partner with whom you can share your blessings list and who prompts and encourages you if you lose motivation or simply forget."Sonya Lyubomirsky
The How of Happiness
The glory days are not behind you, you architect them into your future, by levelling up. Create each day of glory. It’s a choice! Write a new chapter of glory in your life. Make every day a glorious glory dayBrendan Burchard
GrowthDay Daily Fire (multiple dates)
...couples who make an effort to express fondness and admiration have been shown to experience a ‘build-up’ of positivity over time, leading to a longevity bonus of about 10 years (Fredrickson, 2009).Relationships and longevity Barbara Fredrickson
PERMA-Pak, Positive Psychology Toolkit, PositivePsychology.com
"Transcendence is related to dedication and commitment to something or somebody other than oneself."Ilona Boniwell
Positive Psychology in a Nutshell
"Hopelessness is the root of anxiety, mental illness, and depression. It is the source of all misery and the cause of all addiction."Mark Manson
Everything Is F*cked
"Walking is the most trivial physical activity imaginable, yet it can be profoundly enjoyable if a person sets goals and takes control of the process."Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Flow
"Optimists tend to experience less distress during adversity than pessimists,"Kate Hefferon
Positive Psychology
"finding something meaningful in the bleakest of human conditions allowed Frankl and others to survive."Tom Rath
"Knowing the strengths of our significant others, and sharing our strengths with them, can help us avoid some of the frictions and frustrations that can arise from differences in our personalities, and it can help make the relationship itself greater than the sum of its parts."Suzann and James Pawelski
Happy Together
"welcome to the twenty first century world. A world in which a growing number of people do not feel that they are fully living their “true selves” – that their life is not full but more like a half-life?"Sarajane Aris et al.
Beyond Resilience
"sense of belonging correlates with a range of positive outcomes, including higher self-esteem, greater life satisfaction, faster recovery from disease, lower levels of stress, less mental illness, and a longer life. Loneliness, social isolation, and the lack of social support place a person at high risk for psychological distress, physical and mental illness, and early mortality."Michelle McQuaid
Your Wellbeing Blueprint
"Happiness accumulates a bit like compound interest – a little effort today will go a long way tomorrow."Timothy Sharp
100 Ways to Happiness
"One key to happiness, then, is to forestall the adaptation process: We need to take steps to prevent ourselves from taking for granted, once we get them, the things we worked so hard to get."William B. Irvine
A Guide to the Good Life
"When you're surrounded by the extraordinary every day, it's bound to become ordinary."Stefan Mumawy
Caffeine for the Creative Team
"You have to create goals that are worthy of your failure. It is the Mount Everest of your life, and your mission—everything you strive to do from this day forward—is targeted towards making it happen. You will either reach the peak of your dreams, or fail trying."Scott Allan
Supercharge Your Best Life
"Is there someone in your life whom you would feel comfortable phoning at four in the morning to tell your troubles to? If your answer is yes, you will likely live longer than someone whose answer is no."Martin E. P. Seligman
Flourish
"The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button."Bene Brown
"The face of happiness may be someone who is intensely curious and enthusiastic about learning; it may be someone who is engrossed in plans for his next five years; it may be someone who can distinguish between the things that matter and the things that don’t; it may be someone who looks forward each night to reading to her child. Some happy people may appear outwardly cheerful or transparently serene, and others are simply busy. In other words, we all have the potential to be happy, each in our own way."Sonja Lyubomirsky
The How of Happiness
High-quality interpersonal relationships provide a source of joy and meaning across the lifespan, and they have been identified as one of the most reliable indicators of happiness, health, longevity, and life satisfaction for all ages.Investing in Valued Relationships Diener & Seligman, 2002; Pillemer & Rothbard, 2018
PERMA-Pak, Positive Psychology Toolkit, PositivePsychology.com
"any activity which gets you into flow can become addictive." (Bridget Grenville-Cleave, Introducing Positive Psychology)Bridget Grenville-Cleave
Introducing Positive Psychology
"workaholism leads to lack of sleep, which, in turn, leads to not being at our best."
"Rob yourself of sleep and you’ll find you do not function at your personal best."Arianna Huffington
Thrive
Life’s challenges can lead us to profound moments of growth and inspire us to make a positive impact in the world.Unknown
"Personal growth is an ongoing investment. For every hour you spend on improving your lifestyle, the return on this investment is 10x. Or 100x. You can make exponential growth in your life and the lives of everyone you are in contact with by making personal growth a #1 priority. Build small habits into your daily routine. Make these habits consistent with your aim. If you skip a day, be sure to pick it up the next day."Scott Allan
Supercharge Your Best Life
"Next comes meaning and purpose, which require connecting our individual passion to a cause much greater than ourselves."Steven Kotler
The Art of Impossible
"We need to ask ourselves: what makes life worthwhile? what makes us happy, inside? what do we value most about life?"Mark Anielski
The Economics of Happiness
"So what is my definition of happiness? It’s intangible. It can’t be attained or achieved. You don’t chase it. It’s sequential. It comes after you work on building up traits like hope, efficacy, resilience, optimism, gratitude and empathy. Then, when those upstream habits are formed, you get a chance to see happiness when it’s in front of you. You get the chance to stop missing it when it flies by."Jennifer Moss
Unlocking Happiness at Work
"Gratitude is an antidote to negative emotions, a neutralizer of envy, avarice, hostility, worry, and irritation."Sonja Lyubomirsky
The How of Happiness
"If you exercise today, you are more than twice as likely to feel physically attractive tomorrow. Feeling attractive is not just important for our self-confidence. Researchers at Columbia University found that our psychological perceptions of our body image could be as important as objective measures like body mass index (BMI)."Tom Rath
Wellbeing
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