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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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Have you subscribed yet?There is a guest post by yours truly over at The Positivity Blog called How to Create Positive Emotions.
The post is all about why positive emotions are important for personal growth and how we can experience more positive emotions in our day to day lives.
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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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I’ve been talking a lot lately about the environments that we live in, and with good reason, I keep finding more and more evidence that they shape our personalities and our opportunities for personal growth.
Motivation being such a difficult hurdle for people to get over, I figure any helpful boosts our environments can give [...]
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This post is a bit of a conglomeration of ideas, and I haven’t quite worked out how all the pieces fit together in my mind yet, so if it seems a bit disorganized and unfinished just bear with me, I really wanted to get this out there.
I stumbled across this article from a 2001 psychological [...]
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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.
For example, the researchers [...]
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One of the biggest end goals of personal growth and positive psychology is more leisure time. Leisure time is closely associated with happiness and with good reason, leisure is a lot of fun!
We are told every day, both directly and indirectly, that to get more leisure time we need to get more money [...]
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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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Sleep is a severely under appreciated area of our lives. We spend roughly a third of our lives sleeping and yet we tend not to think about it much, or even at all.
This study found that one major aspect of having a harmonious relationship comes down to whether or not the two members [...]
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