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You’ll have to forgive the lack of posting lately, my computer died and most of my blogging stuff is residing safely on a hard drive I can’t access. My new laptop is on the way but it looks like it’s going to be awhile.
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I think one of the biggest strengths about personal growth is that what you are given is not a prescribed way of living your life but rather a toolbox full of different tools like exercises, techniques, mantras, and beliefs that you can use to shape and build a life that is wholly unique [...]
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When you get right down to it, most methods of achieving personal growth are rooted in common sense. I think common sense tells us that bad relationships can certainly hold us and our personal growth back, but I never really thought ending a bad relationship could actually be a boost to personal growth.
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About a week ago I posed the question ‘To what degree should governments work to raise our happiness?’ which was perhaps poorly worded, I think ‘To what degree should governments encourage happiness?’ might be a better choice.
Now I know government policy (even if it is on happiness) might sound really tedious and I’m [...]
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I almost wish I lived in the UK so that I could take advantage of all the great stuff that comes out on the BBC.
In this “unusual three-month experiment, six specialists from a variety of disciplines worked to improve the happiness levels of a typical UK town [called Slough]. The experts tried and [...]
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This is a great video from positive psychology researcher Shawn Achor. Shawn is speaking at some sort of business conference I think, but the advantages of happiness that he talks about are very applicable to anyone, business oriented or not.
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First, this isn’t my list, it was part of a psychology experiment (doc) I found. The experiment was originally targeted towards students though, so I had to change a few of the items around so that they were relevant to everyone.
The bolded categories are related to positive psychology. In positive psychology there are [...]
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In the last few years ‘How can I find Happiness?’ has become a very important question to a lot of people. We can test for happiness, we have a happiness ranking for most of the countries in the world, and some governments are even starting to take the question ‘How can we make [...]
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At least if you live in the UK it does.
“It’s time we admitted that there’s more to life than money, and it’s time we focused not just on GDP, but on GWB - general well-being.”
“Well-being can’t be measured by money or traded in markets. It’s about the beauty of our surroundings, the [...]
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The personal growth initiative test is designed to measure how committed you are to personal growth. I think it’s obvious that a test like this is important, and I really encourage all of you to take it. As you can see, it’s not long and the questions are thought provoking ones.
I also searched [...]
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