April 2007

Take it from experience. Consultant John Izzo did. After interviewing more than 200 people aged 60 to 105, he discovered some common themes about how to find contentment and purpose on the job. Bob Peart remembers well the day his father, a respected anesthesiologist, was feted...

Happiness at work is in everyone's interest - happy employees are better employees and better employees is what managers and organisations want. Happiness at work is largely influenced by the quality of leadership and management. Read this interesting article related to happiness at work, focusing...

Drew Barrymore believes her happiness makes her beautiful. The actress, who graces the front cover of People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful issue, insists her fun-loving attitude to life is what makes her "pretty." Drew, who appears in the annual issue for the fourth time, revealed, "I just...

I'm often talking to people about happiness (almost always, in fact) and I'm often asked where people can find happiness. Although the answer will differ for different individuals there's no doubt where you won't find happiness! You definitely won't find happiness in shops, or...

The contrasting views of Mrs Macbeth and the vaudeville hoofer capture the paradox driving the explosion of studies from economists that show little connection between wealth and happiness. In his book Happiness, Richard Layard from the London School of Economics explains the paradox of our...

Are you a mother (or, for that matter, a father) and searching for happiness? Psychologists are now saying that the joy of motherhood is getting challenged by the stress of motherhood. There is an increasing amount of evidence to suggest that many women are...

This will come as no surprise to those of you who are familiar with my writings and philosophy of happiness but in the interests of bringing you as many happiness stories as possible, from as many happiness sources as possible, the following story reinforces what...

Once relegated to the self-help bookshelf, the subject of happiness is becoming a respectable theme for scientific research and business thinking. The rise of positive psychology and the discovery of happiness circuits in the brain have gone hand in hand with a growing realisation that...

Part of happiness involves accepting and then managing negative emotions such as 'stress". So in the interests of helping you achieve happiness by getting on top of stress, I thought you might like to review the following article (accessed by clicking on the link...