Advocating for positive life and living to improve happiness. quality of life and improved wellbeing around the world.
"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"But some of the internal causes of low resilience, such as thinking styles, can be modified, even counteracted. And, more important, once your thinking style has changed, you can use it to undo the ongoing negative consequences that stemmed from events in your childhood that were outside your control."Karen Reivich
The Resilience Factor"Transcendence is related to dedication and commitment to something or somebody other than oneself."Ilona Boniwell
Positive Psychology in a Nutshell"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"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"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"They understand that life isn’t always easy, but they continue to act according to their most cherished values and pursue their big, long-term goals. They still experience feelings of anger, sadness, and so on—who doesn’t?—but they face these with curiosity, self-compassion, and acceptance. And rather than letting these feelings derail them, emotionally agile people effectively turn themselves—warts and all—toward their loftiest ambitions."Susan David
Emotional Agility"Realized strengths are the strengths of which you are aware already and use, which in turn enable you to perform at your best."Kate Hefferon
Positive Psychology"Happiness never comes from outside of us. He was happy because of the love coming out of him; she was happy because of the love coming out of her. But as soon as he made her responsible for his happiness, she broke the star because she could not be responsible for his happiness."Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love"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"finding something meaningful in the bleakest of human conditions allowed Frankl and others to survive."Tom Rath"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"When we have unresolved issues, we experience an emotional disquiet which can be significantly stressful,"Timothy Sharp
100 Ways to Happiness"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“No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.”Julia Cameron
It's Never Too Late to Begin Again"Happiness accumulates a bit like compound interest – a little effort today will go a long way tomorrow."Timothy Sharp
100 Ways to Happiness"Even engaging in pleasant activities does not guarantee positive emotions, because they depend on our interpretations."Ilona Boniwell
Positive Psychology in a Nutshell"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"Optimists tend to experience less distress during adversity than pessimists,"Kate Hefferon
Positive Psychology"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"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"Next comes meaning and purpose, which require connecting our individual passion to a cause much greater than ourselves."Steven Kotler
The Art of Impossible