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In his newly released TED talk, Dr. Martin Seligman gives an excellent introduction to the field of Positive Psychology, which is a major part of what’s covered here at Improved Lives.
It’s from 2004, so it misses some of the latest advancements that have been made, but it also covers many of the more [...]
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Donald, over at Life Optimizer, has published a guest post I wrote for him called 4 Guidelines for Increasing Daily Happiness.
The post deals with how there are three categories of things that bring us happiness: our genetics, our circumstances, and our intentional activities
The post is all about how to maximize the happiness we get from [...]
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There is a new study out that tracks the happiness levels of 52 countries over an average of 17 years.
The interesting thing about this study is that because it covers a substantial number of years and a substantial number of countries, it allows us to understand what factors are influencing happiness levels within these countries.
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Back in May I wrote a post called Is Happiness Contagious? (which is, I think, one of the most fascinating posts on ImprovedLives) which was all about the research of Dr. Nicholas Christakis.
Dr. Christakis was trying to discover whether having obese people in your social network was more likely to make you obese too, [...]
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“Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.” - Aristotle
Aristotle was exactly right, but it seems as if we haven’t really learned his lesson in the more than 2000 years since he was around.
Lets be clear, money is a token. Green paper [...]
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I always seem to be forgetting to do my personal growth exercises like Gratitude Journaling. (which you can read about here) I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten out of bed because I’ve forgotten yet again. But no more.
I was browsing through this article called The Cheat’s Guide to Happiness and it [...]
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Beautician! (scroll down to see the whole list)
I have to hand it to the UK, they’ve got a focus on happiness that I really wish we had over here in North America.
This was a study by City & Guilds, a UK outfit, that quizzed people from 20 different professions to come up with [...]
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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.
Anyway, that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to talk about. I [...]
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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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