Advocating for positive life and living to improve happiness. quality of life and improved wellbeing around the world.
"Make a note of something you learned through conversing with a colleague, reading an article, or listening during a meeting. In your note, include a brief explanation of why what you learned matters, as well as how this knowledge can be applied."Erin Lawn
Your Strengths BlueprintLife’s challenges can lead us to profound moments of growth and inspire us to make a positive impact in the world.Unknown"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"any activity which gets you into flow can become addictive." (Bridget Grenville-Cleave, Introducing Positive Psychology)Bridget Grenville-Cleave
Introducing Positive Psychology“Happiness is best when shared.”Carol Adams Miller
Getting Grit"Happiness accumulates a bit like compound interest – a little effort today will go a long way tomorrow."Timothy Sharp
100 Ways to 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"Next comes meaning and purpose, which require connecting our individual passion to a cause much greater than ourselves."Steven Kotler
The Art of Impossible"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"Gratitude is an antidote to negative emotions, a neutralizer of envy, avarice, hostility, worry, and irritation."Sonja Lyubomirsky
The How of Happiness"In the nations of the developed world, most people’s basic needs for sustenance, shelter, and information are met. Accordingly, we have emerged from the Agrarian, Industrial and Information economies to the Purpose Economy, that we might fulfill our higher-order needs: meaning and purpose. Meeting these needs will not only enrich our own lives, but the lives of everyone around the planet."Aaron Hurst
The Purpose Economy"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 BlueprintHigh-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"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"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“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"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"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 Factorit takes just minutes to dramatically shift someone’s mood from neutral to negative simply with news reports."Michelle Gielan
Broadcasting Happiness"When you're surrounded by the extraordinary every day, it's bound to become ordinary."Stefan Mumawy
Caffeine for the Creative Team"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