I always greatly preferred Carl Jung’s perspectives to Freuds and when I studied Neuro Linguistic Programming I liked his personality types. No typology will ever be completely accurate, but I find these interesting as a starting point. Their fun to take with others and can be helpful in interacting.
I just came across [...]
One of the most common phrases people say to others in some form of grief is, ‘time heals’ or ‘it takes time’. It usually does, but time is not the healer. There is a certain process that has to be gone through in order to move things from being painful to being accepted. [...]
So often I talk to people who are devastated by any sense that they have failed. There seems to be this programming of people by society that they have to be perfect.
The central theme of the Happiness 2.0 report was about the need to be right rather than happy. And part of that [...]
This post about practising happiness is the second point raised in Brian’s questions. The question of how to apply what you know.
I talked a while back about the 10,000 hour principle. The idea that to become a true expert at something takes 10,000 hours of practice. That’s true in every area of [...]
Thanks to those people who took the time to comment after reading the Happiness 2.0 Report. Brian asked some questions that I think we all struggle with from time to time. I’m going to address the first one here and follow on with the second.
If I let go, is that the same [...]
I just realised I’d said to leave your comments below the link to the Happiness Report, but there wasn’t a place to leave them. So I’m setting this up for any questions or comments.
In case you haven’t yet read it, here’s the Happiness Report.
While I was doing this, I thought of another [...]
All week I’ve been working furiously to finish the Happiness 2.0 report. The trouble is that I’m a terrible editor. I start to read through it to make sure it makes sense and I just keep finding more to add to it. So late last night I said enough is enough and [...]
Sometimes I’ve been asked ‘what my biggest regret is’. I used to think I didn’t regret. I’m not the sort of person to look back. Perhaps there is a mild feeling of regret that particularly in my past business, that I allowed myself to be talked out of strategies that instinctively I [...]