After the last couple of week’s posts, I feel a little like I’m going through a Freudian Analysis. Whilst I was writing about how I learned to cope with stress there were 5 points that jumped out at me that would be essential for someone wanting to be able to process events quickly and with minimal stress. read more about stress management training
I’ve received a couple of emails asking me why I haven’t posted anything yet this week. I was planning to get to work on a series of posts about stress. But life got in the way, as it tends to… read more on why no posts?
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I promised you I had a big idea and here it is. If you’ve read the book ‘Wisdom of Crowds’ you’ll understand the power of focused groups. Read more about reducing your stress to zero
This post about practicing 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 life. Read more about practising happiness
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. Read more about the Happiness 2.0 Report
Aren’t we all seeking wisdom?
Isn’t that what living is about?
For some wisdom means efficiency or effectiveness. For another it could be more rewarding relationships. And to another still, it may be the meaning of life.
Is the love of money, truly the root of all evil? More on is the love of money the root of all evil
I’ve been in this field for a fairly long time now. And so I’ve seen a lot of people and how they got on over time. Recently I noticed a distinct difference between two groups.
The first were people of strong integrity and character. By this I mean that they strove to find solutions that fitted with their conscience and were in line with who they saw themselves and how they wanted to conduct themselves. Read more about Integrity And Character
I just came across an interesting and entertaining short video of a 22 minute talk by Stumbling on Happiness Author Daniel Gilbert. I thought you might find it useful so I’ve posted it below. In it he talks about synthetic happiness and real happiness. More about stumbling on happiness by Daniel Gilbert
I guess I live in the self-help genre. I don’t like a lot of what I see there though. There’s a lot of nonsense and hot air. There’s seems to be a lot of falseness. My main beef with it though is that people buy into it from emotional insecurity and become more insecure the longer they are involved with it.