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Micawber’s Principle
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds & six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditures twenty pounds ought & six, result misery.”…
June 25, 2013
Choose the Smile
David Murdock is Dole Pineapple’s CEO. And he is 90 years young. A 2010 Wall Street Journal picture shows him with a full-face smile, a…
June 20, 2013
Who Needs Enemies When You Have Yourself? Ending Self-Sabotaging Behavior Once and for All
Self-sabotaging behavior is any thing you do that holds you back, keeps you from being your best self. Self-sabotaging behavior is rarely 100% negative; there…
June 18, 2013
Smart Swaps
A smart swap is when you substitute a positive or neutral behavior for a negative behavior. At its simplest, a smart swap is the smoker…
June 13, 2013
The Resilient Power of Creating an Oscillating Narrative with an Upward Trend
We all have a “life story” we tell ourselves, a way we interpret the world around us. It is part self-concept, part self-fulling prophecy. Families…
May 7, 2013
The Happiness Advantage
What if EVERYTHING you thought you knew about how to be happy was flat out wrong? We tend to assume that our external world is…
April 30, 2013
“The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results,” by Bobby Knight
Bobby Knight defines negative thinking as “recognizing, addressing, and removing obstacles to winning” and goes on to say that victory tends to go to “the…
April 18, 2013
16 Things Happy People Do Differently
1. Practice an “Attitude of Gratitude”: Happy people don’t have the best of everything rather, they make the best of everything. 2. Re-Frame problems as…
April 16, 2013
Beware Fundamental Attribution Error
Humans tend to explain outcomes in terms of internal factors such as personality abilities as opposed to the external situation. When one basketball player shoots…
April 9, 2013
The Stories That Bond Us, Strengthen Us
We all tell ourselves stories to help us understand life and the events that happened to us. Developing a strong, positive narrative for their life…
April 4, 2013
You Gotta Ask
Recently I picked up a rental car and as I stood at the counter I noticed that the contract of the fellow in front of…
March 14, 2013