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Lately, I’ve been reading a lot on myths and stories and the power that narratives can have on how we view ourselves and thus how we live our lives. Myths and stories are a huge part of most of the world’s cultures. Native Americans, for example, still hold on to many of the myths [...]
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One of the things I find most troubling about any kind of personal growth is the focus on the personal part. This inward focus is contradictory to the realities of personal growth, which, if looked at carefully, shows that personal growth has a lot to do with our external world, and especially the people [...]
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Back in June I had a post called How You can Participate in Real Positive Psychology Studies. It went over a few really interesting research studies being done by Dr. Martin Seligman that needed volunteers.
Many of these research studies ask people to change their lives in a certain way, the hope being that the [...]
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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 theory, called the Biophilia Hypothesis, that states that we have a love of nature literally built in to us.
It is believed that this love of nature runs so deep within us that being in and around nature actually has physical as well as psychological benefits.
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The idea behind this post is quite similar to the idea behind another post I recently wrote, Boost Your Personal Growth by Learning a New Language.
The basic idea is that who we are thinking about when we are doing something actually has a big impact on how we do that something.
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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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Being from an officially bilingual country (Canada), I’ve had plenty of opportunities to learn a new language, but I never really saw the point. English is common in so many places of the world, taking the time to learn a new language always seemed like a lot of effort for very little payoff.
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I would like you to think about how many personal growth articles you have read. Now add to that all the videos you’ve watched, and all the books you’ve bought, and all the other personal growth lessons you’ve learned from anywhere and everywhere.
Now think about how many of those personal growth lessons really [...]
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Through the grapevine I heard about this wonderful book (I haven’t read it yet, but it sounds very good) that came out recently on aging well, which showed that living the kind of happy, fulfilled life that I talk about here at Improved Lives will, in combination with a few other things, predict health [...]
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