Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Tony Burroughs
"I don't know about you but I'm being tested a lot nowadays." The Law of Adversity says that along with every challenge or problem we encounter, an opportunity also presents itself...
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- Written by: Helene Segura
What is the key to organization and productivity? I can tell you that there are no shopping lists involved. There’s not an inventory of tools or supplies to purchase. No containers. No apps.
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- Written by: Matthew Swayne, Penn State University
New research identifies ways to help people who don’t gel with the company’s culture stay engaged and become more productive.
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- Written by: Dr. Paula Horan
We spend much of our time trying to please others. Most of us unconsciously, try to please our family, friends, and co-workers in order to barter for the love we so deeply crave — but will not acknowledge.
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- Written by: Lance Secretan
The majority of people are aching to make a commitment in their lives—to others, to a goal, to the world—if only they could find the spark that would set them into action. The missing links are the belief in oneself and the inspiration from others. Few of us believe that we are...
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell
We've all heard of ask and you shall receive and I've been an avid proponent of that method myself. However, there is asking and there is expecting. Now on the surface, those seem to go hand in hand, yet they don't...
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- Written by: Alan Cohen
The business and relationship situations in your life do not have a life or reality of their own. They are reflections of your psyche, the images you hold about yourself projected onto the screen of the world. As James Allen stated, “We think in secret and it comes to pass. Environment is our looking glass.”
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- Written by: Mohammad Salahuddin, University of Southern Queensland; et al
Keeping up with our social networks online helps us get what we want in the short term, but could be worse for our accumulation of “social capital” in the longer term, our research shows.
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- Written by: Lorraine Flaherty
As Dorothy travelled along the yellow brick road she came to a crossroads. Out loud she wondered which way to go and she got a reply from a scarecrow that had been tied to a stake in the middle of a cornfield. He told her that he had no choice but to stay there as he believed...
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- Written by: Noelle Sterne, Ph.D.
Business writer and journalist Srully Blotnick wrote of a 20-year study of men who became millionaires. The single thing they all had in common was not an overriding desire to make money or gain international reputation, but an overriding love of and determination to do what they loved doing...
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- Written by: Brandon Ambrosino, YES! Magazine
How to cope with anxiety, self-doubt, and “the check’s in the mail.” I’m currently waiting for around $10,000 worth of paychecks to reach me for freelance writing projects I’ve done.
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- Written by: Michaela Edwards, Lancaster University and Adrian Sutton, University of Manchester
Well-being is seen as increasingly important in the workplace. A growing number of companies have well-being policies, such as free gym memberships and health insurance, to cater to their employees' needs.
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- Written by: David Cross, University of Bath
The original “freelancers” were historic knights and mercenaries, selling their fighting skills to whoever paid the right price. Today’s freelancers include a growing army of people who decide to leave highly paid and secure jobs in large organisations to strike out on their own and become independent consultants.
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- Written by: Ruth Brooks and Dennis Duty, University of Huddersfield
One of the main reasons given by students for going to university is to get a good job afterwards, but with around 500,000 people graduating each year the job market is extremely competitive.
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- Written by: Maria Nemeth, Ph.D.
Money is an uncomfortable subject for most of us. We love money, and we hate it. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. Money can be a source of great joy and creativity, or it can bring frustration and misery, depending on our relationship with it. And we bring all these doubts and fears, hopes and expectations with us every time we...
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- Written by: Ron Johnston, University of Sydney
The flow of reports about the impact of automation, mostly dire, continues. This report follows the now familiar line captured in the phrase “exponential technologies”
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- Written by: Lianne Taylor, Anglia Ruskin University
When confronted by life, we are each bound within the scope and the limits of the perspectives we have adopted and nurtured over our lives.
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- Written by: Laura Gee, Tufts University
More than half of jobs are found with the help of a social tie, whether a friend, relative or distant acquaintance. For example, a friend may tell you about a job opening at her firm or a parent may offer you an internship at his company.
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- Written by: Christina Sumners, Texas A&M University
The researchers examined the productivity differences between two groups of call center employees over the course of six months and found that those with stand-capable workstations—those in which the worker could raise or lower the desk to stand or sit as they wished throughout the day—were about 46 percent more productive than those with regular desks and chairs.
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- Written by: Kirrilly Thompson, CQUniversity Australia
Ask any anthropologist what they do and they will find it hard to give you a direct answer. If you’ve seen the television series Bones, you probably think an anthropologist is someone who studies the remains of dead people to help solve crimes.
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- Written by: Clifton B. Parker, Stanford University
"Teachers are caught between two models, a punitive model that says you have to punish kids to get them to behave and an older model that goes to the heart of the profession, which says that teaching is all about building strong relationships with children, especially when they struggle," says Gregory Walton.
