Positive Psychology

gratitude, appreciation, self-talk, compassion, strengths

What % of the day do you play to your strengths

Discover Your Strengths: Amaze the World with Your Best Three

Resilience is considered a strength based concept. Kowing and finding ways and means to use your strengthen will improve you well-being in many ways.

Volunteer Work Creates Helper’s High

Helper’s High One of the most effective ways of building resilience and bounce back from adversity is to lend a helping hand to others. Many people have experienced the boost helping gives them; hence the term helpers high when we do volunteer work. My own experience supports this idea. When our daughter, Kelly, was […]

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Boost Your Attitude of Gratitude: Even During COVID-19

Attitude of Gratitude It is easy to feel grateful when you have health, wealth, leisure time and freedom of movement. But having an attitude of gratitude in times of illness, financial struggle, distress, and the requirement to physically distance is a different story. Here is a December 2020 headline from CBC, “Dealing with a lot: […]

Find Your Calling: Live Your Life Purpose

Wouldn’t you know it? As soon as I made the grand statement in the article Use Your Strengths that identifying your strengths is an “easy and meaningful way to feel on purpose,” O magazine of Oprah Winfrey’s empire publishes a feature called, Everyone Has a Calling. It leads with “There’s The Thing You Do For A Living—And Then There’s The Thing You Were Born To Do.”

The Money Trap: How to Feel Happy with What You Have

Research helps us understand when and how more money will bring us more happiness. Good financial management is crucial as a starting point.

Five Key Ways to Increase Your Authentic Joy

Gallop Poll . . . They point out that, in their research, regardless of the wars and unrest in the world, seven in 10 people in 138 countries reported in their Positive Experiences Index significant amounts of:

1. enjoyment
2. laughing or smiling
3. feeling well-rested
4. being treated with respect

A List of 30 Uplifting and Optimistic Thoughts

There is always the inside of you that you can manage.

Improve Your Gratefulness with a Gratitude List

It was an honor to be the guest contributor on Steve Foran’s blog, Gratitude at Work. His invitation provided a wonderful opportunity to practice gratitude. Steve’s goal is to shift culture by helping teams bring more gratitude to their work. You will see on Steve’s website his belief in the power of thankfulness. He wrote: […]

The secret to True Happiness is being open to feeling a range of emotions while catching, appreciating and savoring the happy ones.

So! You Want to Find True Happiness!

Resilient people know that you can not feel happy all the time. Feeling happy is but one emotion that comes and goes. Feeling happy gives us the information, in that moment, we have what we want.

Image of how a joke/sense of humor impacts our brain receptors

How to Have Fun with Your Personal Sense of Humor

Have you ever wondered about your humor personality or telling a joke or two? WAIT! You might be asking, “Do I need to tell jokes to have a sense of humor?” Absolutely not! Read on! Most of us, at some time or another, crack a smile — if not a gut wrenching guffaw. Having a sense of […]