Advocating for positive life and living to improve happiness. quality of life and improved wellbeing around the world.
"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"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"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"self-regulation is both the ability to control our emotions and the ability to persist through challenging, strenuous tasks."Steven Kotler
The Art of Impossible"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"Happiness accumulates a bit like compound interest – a little effort today will go a long way tomorrow."Timothy Sharp
100 Ways to Happiness"Being social is the most successful form of higher adaptation known."Martin E.P. Seligman
Flourish"Next comes meaning and purpose, which require connecting our individual passion to a cause much greater than ourselves."Steven Kotler
The Art of Impossible"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"Most of the time when we are blocked in an area of our life, it is because we feel safer that way. We may not be happy, but at least we know what we are—unhappy."Julia Cameron
The Artist's Way"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"Even engaging in pleasant activities does not guarantee positive emotions, because they depend on our interpretations."Ilona Boniwell
Positive Psychology in a Nutshellit takes just minutes to dramatically shift someone’s mood from neutral to negative simply with news reports."Michelle Gielan
Broadcasting Happiness"Living at a time when our society is beleaguered by materialism, generosity is an essential medicine to combat the striving for more."Dave Toycen
he Power of Generosity"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"Not only is happiness an important goal in its own right, but it is also part of our adaptive evolutionary nature – helping us respond to any challenges we face."Nic Marks
The Happiness Manifesto"This emotional uplift is elevation, and we humans are designed to feel it when we see a morally beautiful act."Robert Biswas-Diener
The Courage Quotient...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"Researchers have found that across history, suicide rates tend to rise with unemployment—and it’s easy to understand why: Work is a major source of identity, value, and purpose for people. It gives them something to do with their time, a sense of worth, and an opportunity to contribute to society and to support their families. When people lose their jobs, they are losing not only their livelihood, but a powerful source of meaning."Emily Esfahani-Smith
The Power of Meaning"So here we have purposeful practice in a nutshell: Get outside your comfort zone but do it in a focused way, with clear goals, a plan for reaching those goals, and a way to monitor your progress. Oh, and figure out a way to maintain your motivation."Anders Ericsson et al.
Peak"any activity which gets you into flow can become addictive." (Bridget Grenville-Cleave, Introducing Positive Psychology)Bridget Grenville-Cleave
Introducing Positive Psychology"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
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