What Makes People Happy?
What makes people happy? Well, there’s no simple answer but there are clues. Look at the habits of happy people and you’ll see rather similar things People who care for others, or volunteer to help...
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Getting Past The Energy Slump
Most people reach a point when they just feel tired, heavy- limbed, unmotivated and disillusioned. In reaching this point it’s not uncommon to find that a high stress, high activity and erratic sleep pattern has...
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Living Fast, or Dying When You’re Oldish!
There is nothing like the deaths of rock stars who began their careers when you were young to remind you of your own mortality. David Bowie, Lemmy of Motorhead, Glenn Fry of The Eagles all...
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Drop The Takers, Only Givers Nourish Us
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out that time spent with cynical, distrustful, complaining, moody types eventually takes its toll. The people we mix with affect our moods, so if we spend time...
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Playing to Your Personal Strengths
What exactly is a personal strength? I’d say it’s those things that invigorate us as an individual. They feel a natural part of us and they boost our lives and daily performance.
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The Peak-End Rule to Happiness
The peak-end rule describes the way we judge experiences by the way they end. Here’s a familiar example. You’ve been on a fantastic two- week vacation and after just a couple of hours at work...
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Use Hearing to Motivate Yourself
Harnessing our senses can offer huge potential as motivational tools. When it comes to hearing we’re often bombarded by background noise. Often we can filter this out by thinking our own thoughts or by choosing...
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How to Make Your Job More Meaningful
Two people do similar jobs. Lets say they are both cleaners only one works in a hospital and the other an office. One finds the work boring and pointless but the other finds it satisfying...
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5 Tips to Push Away Gloomy Thoughts
Gloomy thinking is normal isn’t it? Okay, it is but the problem with gloomy thinking going on too long is that it slows everything down, even to the point where we grind to a halt....
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5 Self-Improvement Sites You May Not Have Considered
The term self-improvement has been used so often that it seems to have lost some of its meaning and power. Most people strive to be successful, but it is extremely helpful if we band together...
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